Performance / Tour News

Celebrated Songstress, Maude Maggart, Returns to Feinstein's for Limited Engagement.

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
November 2, 2009

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, will continue its star-studded Fall 2009 season with the celebrated chanteuse, MAUDE MAGGART. She will bring her critically-acclaimed show Parents and Children back to New York for a limited run, November 10-14. When it debuted last spring, The New York Times called Maude an increasingly fascinating entertainer whose show was bewitching and seductive. The ...

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Jazz Standard Warms up the Holiday Season with Hot Latin Jazz in December

Source: AMT Public Relations
November 2, 2009

JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nations premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in December. Jazz Standard and the Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival host pianist Chano Domnguez and his quintet in The Flamenco Side of Kind of Blue (12/3-12/6). The Pablo Ziegler Quartet stars in our annual Tango Meets Jazz festival (12/10-12/13) with special guest saxophonists Miguel Zenon and David Sanchez. The Steve Wilson Ensemble (12/17-12/20) will pay tribute to the late great composer and keyboard master ...

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Wayne Horvitz - These Hills of Glory

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
November 2, 2009

Email from Wayne Horvitz about this performance this Wednesday, November 4: Dear Seattle Friends, If you come to one concert of mine this year, or even the next, or the one after that, please come on Wednesday November 4th to the Nordstrom Recital Hall for a very special performance of my chamber music. (1) The center piece of the evening will be my piece for string quartet plus improvising soloist entitled These Hills of Glory. The quartet will be performed ...

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Steve Hillage Band to Support Gong on UK Tour

Source: Noble PR
November 1, 2009

The Steve Hillage Band is confirmed as special guest on GONG's forthcoming nationwide November UK tour, which kicks off at the Bristol O2 Academy on Thursday November 19th. This marks the first time since 1979 when Hillage will perform material from the following renowned Steve Hillage Band solo albums: Fish Rising (1975), 'L' (1976), Motivation Radio (1977) and Green (1978).

'GONG'with very special guests The Steve Hillage Band Bristol O2 Academy (Nov 19) Exeter Lemon Grove ...

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Fred Ho at Harvard, November 4

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
November 1, 2009

Fred Ho, a one-of-a-kind revolutionary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, writer, producer, political activist and leader of several music ensembles, is in concert with the Harvard Jazz Band on November 4 at Lowell Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, in Cambridge.“Fred Ho's style is a genre unto itself, a pioneering fusion of free-jazz and traditional Chinese music that manages to combine truculence and delicacy with such natural ease that it sounds positively organic," wrote Larry Birnbaum in Down Beat Magazine.

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Jazz Legends Celebrate Hadley Caliman in Concert on Jazz NW

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
November 1, 2009

The Jazz Legends celebrate Hadley Caliman in an Earshot Jazz Festival concert on this weeks Jazz Northwest. Joining the tenor sax great are trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Larry Vuckovich, bassist Jeff Chambers, and drummer Eddie Marshall in this concert which concluded their tour last Wednesday in Seattle. Highlights from the concert will air this Sunday afternoon at 1 PM PST on Jazz Northwest from 88-5, KPLU and kplu.org. Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced exclusively for KPLU. The program is ...

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Galactic | 10.16 | Brooklyn

Source: JamBase
November 1, 2009

Words by: Alex Borsody | Images by: Rob Chapman

Galactic :: 10.16.09 :: Brooklyn Bowl :: Brooklyn, NY

Galactic :: 10.16 :: Brooklyn In just the past few months, a list of improvisational rock legends have played Brooklyn Bowl. Galactic was the latest band in this historic run. I last saw them two years ago when they were touring to support From the Corner to the Block, where ...

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YMSB/Railroad Earth | 10.17 | NYC

Source: JamBase
November 1, 2009

Words & Images by: Bill Clifford

Yonder Mountain String Band & Railroad Earth :: 10.17.09 :: Nokia Theatre :: New York, NY

Adam Aijala - YMSB :: 10.17 :: New York City For live music fans, it's always a wonderful rush when two of your favorite acts are performing together. Such was the case for this writer when Yonder Mountain String Band and Railroad Earth were booked in ...

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