Performance / Tour News

This February @ The Resbox

Source: SoCal Creative Music
February 16, 2010

Hans Fjellestad's great music series continues. This February @ The Resbox:MARCO ENEIDI + PETER VALSAMISTHOLLEM MCDONAS + ALEX CLINETAYLOR HO BYNUM TRUMPET QUARTETfeat. Taylor Ho Bynum + Kris Tiner + Dan Clucas + Jeff KaiserThursday, February 18, 8PMResBox @ Steve Allen TheaterThe Center for Inquiry4773 Hollywood Blvd.Hollywood, CA 90027$10 at the door or reservations at: (800) 595-4849more info: (323) 666-4268all ages + ...

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Jazz Bridge Presents the Ken Ulansey Ensemble at the Cheltenham Arts Center on March 3rd

Source: Michael Ricci
February 16, 2010

Appearing at the Cheltenham Arts Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd., Cheltenham, PA, on Wednesday March 3rd will be the Ken Ulansey group. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337

Ken Ulansey, a Penn Council for the Arts winner, plays alto and soprano sax and clarinet. Some critics have called him a musical chameleon, having played contemporary classical music with Relache, jazz with his own award-winning band, latin with Synthesis and Minas, and folk ...

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Efterklang: U.S. Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
February 16, 2010

Efterklang Announces March U.S. Tour Dates Including SXSW

Efterklang Efterklang will be hitting our shores in March for select U.S. Tour Dates following the February 23 4AD release of their newest album Magic Chairs, capping the jaunt with dates during this year's SXSW.

Removing themselves from their home city and heading to Aarhus' Feedback Recording Studio, the band recorded basic tracks as a band (drums, bass, guitars and piano), replicating the live set-up from where the songs had initially taken ...

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Bobby McFerrin to Perform "Migrations" at Lawrence University

Source: Michael Ricci
February 15, 2010

Ten-time Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin joins the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble, Studio Orchestra and Hybrid Ensemble at 8 p.m., February 19, for the sold-out U.S. premiere of “Migrations: One World, Many Musics." Composed by Lawrence's own Fred Sturm, Kimberly Clark Professor of Music and director of jazz studies, “Migrations" was commissioned in 2007 by McFerrin and the NDR Big Band in Hamburg, Germany. The work is a “musical plea for world unity" that illustrates both the distinct and shared characteristics ...

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Gwyneth Herbert Rescores 'The Patsy'

Source: Michael Ricci
February 15, 2010

"The jazz folk-diva with an awesome voice. Expect beguiling, powerful and often witty songs that strike an emotional chord!" --Time Out Gwyneth first broke onto the scene five years ago, when she was signed up by the Universal conglomerate as a jazz crossover artist. She soon struck out on her own, as a singer-songwriter and has garnered much success and acclaim. As part of the Birds Eye View Film Festival, we are teaming up with Gwyneth to bring you an ...

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Branford Marsalis shines at the Touhill

Source: Michael Ricci
February 15, 2010

Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis isn't the kind of artist who panders to an audience. When he ventures onto a stage, what you hear is what you get. And Friday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, that meant an exhilarating, challenging and thoroughly entertaining show. Accompanied by pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner, the former Tonight Show bandleader confirmed his reputation as a performer who embraces tradition while remaining open to an infinite range ...

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Tecora Rogers at Room 43 in Chicago

Source: Michael Ricci
February 15, 2010

By James Walker, Jr. As has been the case in recent months, Room 43 filled up quickly in anticipation of vocalist Tecora Rogers' return to Hyde Park Jazz Society's weekly soiree at this increasingly popular Sunday evening jazz set. Tecora, recently back home from one of her frequent engagements in Russia, was accompanied by an all star trio consisting of Josh Ramos on bass, Charles “Rick" Heath on drums and Chicago's premier guitarist Curtis Robinson fronting this group. Curtis is ...

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Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Quintet Returns to Yoshi's

Source: Michael Ricci
February 14, 2010

Featuring Mariah Parker (composer, piano, santur) and a stellar lineup of musicians including Grammy award winning woodwind virtuoso Paul McCandless (known through his work with the seminal chamber jazz groups Paul Winter Consort and Oregon), trailblazing guitarist Matthew Montfort (Ancient Future), bassist and cellist Kash Killion (Sun Ra Arkestra, Cecil Taylor); and Indian tabla/jazz drum set pioneer Sameer Gupta (Marc Cary, VidyA, Chitresh Das, Anindo Chatterjee). Back By Popular Demand at Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Monday, April 19, ...

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