Performance / Tour News

One, Two, Three, Four: No Rehearsal, Go

Source: Michael Ricci
December 10, 2009

One of the fondest notions in jazz is that time is irrelevant. Everyones trying to get over the fixities of the clock to find the magic chutes of improvisational freedom, where you can slip into the breaks, as Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man, and look around. Time produces age, and it can seem, sometimes, as if older musicians want to play as if theyre physically younger, and vice versa. But theyre all looking toward a space that isnt on ...

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Eric Clapton U.S. Dates w/ Daltrey

Source: JamBase
December 9, 2009

Eric Clapton Announced 2010 U.S. TOUR DATES Very Special Guest Roger Daltrey To Kick Off The Show

Eric Clapton On the heels of two major U.S. Grammy nominations for his CD release with Steve Winwood last year, Eric Clapton has announced a series of North American solo shows. The tour will begin on February 25 in Pittsburgh, PA and will travel to 11 U.S. cities and feature a very special guest, The Who's Roger Daltrey to kick off ...

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Air Announce First N. American Shows in 3 Years

Source: JamBase
December 9, 2009

AIR ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF LOVE 2 ALBUM FIRST CONTINENTAL APPEARANCE IN THREE YEARS

AIR Following the October release of their fifth studio album Love 2, French electronic pop duo AIR (Nicolas Godin and JB Dunckel) return to the U.S. for their first live shows in three years. The Pocket Symphony tour of 2007-08 saw the band travel to the Far East and beyond, stage their largest New York play to date at the ...

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Vic Chesnutt | 11.30 | San Francisco

Source: JamBase
December 9, 2009

Words by: Justin Gillett | Images by: Eric Lawson

Vic Chesnutt :: 11.30.09 :: Great American Music Hall :: San Francisco, CA

Vic Chesnutt :: 11.30 :: San Francisco If there's one thing people know about Vic Chesnutt, it's probably that he's a paraplegic. Losing the use of his legs to a car accident when he was 18-years-old was an experience that has shaped Chesnutt's life and the ...

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Giving a Great 1960s Jazz Album Its Groove Back

Source: Michael Ricci
December 9, 2009

Jazz repertory has a reputation for bigness. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is an institutionally supported big band, as were some other noble past endeavors. But theres another, leaner tier of jazz repertory, the product of musicians consumed by a labor of love, or maybe a love of labor. Either way, David Weiss is one of those. Mr. Weiss, a trumpeter, arranger and composer, leads a handful of groups that explore overlapping areas of interest: chiefly 1950s hard bop ...

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Tim Kuhl's - A Winter's Night of Music (12.14.09) + More ..

Source: Two for the Show Media
December 9, 2009

Hello AAJ Readers! I've put together a night music coming up Monday December 14th at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY. The night features a stellar lineup of musicians, original music and sound... 9pm: Tim Kuhl's “Pandora's Box" Jonathan Moritz - Saxophones Frantz Loriot - Viola Ryan Mackstaller - Guitar James Ilgenfritz - Double Bass Tim Kuhl - Drums + Cymbals

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Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens' Delmark CD Release Party at the Hungry Brain

Source: Michael Ricci
December 8, 2009

Delmark CD release party for Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens' TWO CITIES Sunday, December 20, 2009 Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens @ 10pm Hungry Brain 2319 W Belmont Chicago, IL 773-935-2118 Aram Shelton - alto saxophone, clarinet Josh Berman - cornet Keefe Jackson - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet Anton Hatwich - bass Marc Riordan - drums (on CD, Frank Rosaly is drummer, and Fred Lonberg-Holm adds cello!) The ...

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First Jeff Beck Show Sells out - Second Show Added on June 18!!! Tickets on Sale Friday 10 A.M.

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
December 9, 2009

Rochester, NY December 7, 2009 Due to a sell-out of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival's Jeff Beck concert June 18, 2010 at 8 p.m., producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona announced today that they are adding a second performance on Friday June 18 at 11 p.m. Both concerts will be in Eastman Theatre's Kodak Hall. Tickets for the second performance go on sale Friday December 11 at 10 a.m. at rochesterjazz.com, Ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at 800-745-3000 and all ...

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