Performance / Tour News

Single Tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at the Sheldon on Sale February 13

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 2, 2010

Single tickets for the performance by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at 7:30 p.m. March 13 at the Sheldon Concert Hall will go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 13.The concert is the main event of the Sheldon's 2010 fundraising gala, and patron tickets have been on sale since November. Single tickets will be $65 and $75 and can be purchased in person at all MetroTix outlets and the Sheldon box office; ...

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Douglas Ewart to Perform Saturday, February 13 at Webster University Community Music School

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 2, 2010

Multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart (pictured) has rescheduled his St. Louis performance for 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 13 at the Webster University Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave (behind the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis).Ewart originally was supposed to have played in St. Louis this past weekend in a duo with bassist Zimbabwe Nkenya. His appearance was postponed when presenters New Music Circle turned the event into a benefit for Nkenya, who suffered a stroke last fall. For the February ...

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Hollywood Bowl Season Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
February 2, 2010

Gustavo Dudamel will make three appearances at the Hollywood Bowl this summer, marking the first time that he will conduct at the venue since “Bienvenido Gustavo" in October.

The season will also include performances by John Williams, Harry Connick Jr. and a production of “Rent."

Here are some more of the summer's classical-music highlights at the Bowl. The L.A. Philharmonic said it will finalize all Bowl events and details in early March.

--Opening night (June 18): Thomas Wilkins conducts the ...

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Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2010

Herb Alpert's inner jazzman has always been integrated within something more significant: a haunting, personal trumpet signature riding atop a melange of American and/or Latin components.

Yet lately, his jazz roots have finally emerged into full view with a new CD, “Anything Goes" (Concord Jazz), and an intimately-scaled show with Alpert's wife, singer Lani Hall, and a small combo. “Anything Goes" is a multiple landmark for Alpert - his first mainstream jazz album, his first album of any kind in ...

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Jeremy Pelt Taking a Ride on Jazzs Main Line

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

The trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has spent most of the last decade as a young exemplar, traveling the postbop continuum on his own steam, at his own pace.

As a bandleader he has plunged headlong into funk and dipped a toe in chamber orchestration, but the larger theme of his output seeks a footing on the bedrock of jazz convention. Hes still finding good terrain to explore there, as he proved at Jazz Standard on Thursday night.

Mr. Pelt, 33, has ...

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Natalia Lafourcade at the Conga Room

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

She shows a maturing songwriting and singing voice. With early-bloomer musicians such as Natalia Lafourcade, there's sometimes a thin but crucial line between precociousness and preciousness.

When this gifted Mexican pop-rocker released her self-titled solo debut in 2003, she was not yet 20 summers old. But Lafourcade -- a daughter of musicians who grew up singing mariachi and who plays guitar, piano and several other instruments ably and writes or co-writes most of her material -- already had attained a ...

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Blue Whales Are Singing in a Lower Key

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

Scientists don't know why, but some think the baritone voices reflect the security of their greater numbers. The whales' singing is barely audible to the human ear. Blue whales have changed their songs.

It's also possible that the low voice is just a fad.

It's the same old tune, but the pitch of the blues is mysteriously lower -- especially off the coast of California where, local researchers say, the whales' voices have dropped by more than half an octave ...

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Mark Berman ("Sex and the City") Returns to NYC's "Top of the Rock" February 24

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

Mark Berman, jazz piano star notable for his hot montuno piano playing on HBO's “Sex and the City" theme song, as well as for his live playing with such stars as Aretha Franklin, Mark Murphy, and Wycliffe Gordon, to name but a few, brings his jazz trio to the 67th Floor Weather Room at the Top of the Rock, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Wednesday evening February 24, from 6PM - 8PM.

The Mark Berman Trio returns by popular demand to the ...

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