Performance / Tour News

On Ka'a Davis Double CD Release Party at the Stone!

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2009

The Stone presents A Very Special “Double" CD Release Pereformance!! On Ka'a Davis with the Famous Original Djuke Music Players

Friday Midnight October 23rd

“On Ka'a Davis (everything) and his band of musical magicians!!" A Special Midnight Concert to celebrate On's two new releases on Live Wired and Tzadik. Celebrating two new releases by this cutting edge artist.

SEEDS OF DJUKE on LIVE WIRED

Drawing inspiration from the outer realms of Blackness, On Ka'a ...

Continue Reading...

Latin Jazz Trombonist Luis Bonilla at South Orange Performing Arts Center

Source: AMT Public Relations
October 7, 2009

South Orange Peforming Arts Center (SOPAC) Welcomes Luis Bonilla, Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz.

Tuesday, October 20 at 7:30pm Tickets: $25, $15, $8 Contact SOPAC 973.313.ARTS

Jazz 'n the Hall Presented by Seton Hall Arts Council, Grammy-winning Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader, Luis Bonilla, explodes the usual musical structures of both kinds of music (NY Times). Bonilla is a prominent force in the N.Y. and international Jazz and Latin scenes. The energetic and improvisational performance ...

Continue Reading...

Marsalis Berklee Jams Continues with Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet

Source: Michael Ricci
October 7, 2009

The special guest for the latest Marsalis Berklee Jams is the Dafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet, led by Cuban-born drummer, composer, and two-time Grammy nominee Prieto. The band's new album, Live at Jazz Standard, is set to be released next month, and on October 14 and 15 the Si o Si Quartet will be at Berklee's Cafe 939 to perform a set and follow with a jam session open to all Berklee students. The concerts and jam sessions are ...

Continue Reading...

Blood, Sweat, and Tears at the Berklee Performance Center

Source: Michael Ricci
October 7, 2009

Blood, Sweat & Tears, one of the greatest horn bands in popular music, will perform Thursday, October 15, at 7:30 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. All ticket sales from the concert will fund the Elsie Monica Colomby Scholarship at Berklee, an award named after BS&T founder Bobby Colomby's mother, who was an avid patron of the arts. A musical institution, Blood Sweat & Tears is best known for their signature fusion of rock, blues, pop, ...

Continue Reading...

Zero 7: 1st U.S. Tour in 3 Years

Source: JamBase
October 7, 2009

ZERO 7 UNVEILS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, THEIR FIRST IN MORE THAN THREE YEARS; NEW ALBUM, YEAH GHOST AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE NOW

Zero 7 Atlantic recording group Zero 7 has announced details of their upcoming North American tour - their first in more than three years. The trek - which celebrates the British duo's new album, Yeah Ghost - will launch on November 26 at Washington, DC's 9:30 Club, and then travel the continent through December 17 for the final show in ...

Continue Reading...

Raising Roof and Headstone for Pioneering Pianist

Source: Michael Ricci
October 7, 2009

A definition of righteousness: about 75 people, crammed into the West Village club Smalls, watching a series of pianists play James P. Johnson on a grand piano in a benefit concert to buy a headstone for his grave. Like all the other stride-piano soloists of the teens and 1920s, Johnson has been lodged in a historical second tier, probably because he’s not known for band music and didn’t tour sufficiently. But he’s the truest passageway from pre-jazz to jazz-as-we-know-it. He ...

Continue Reading...

Jerry and Marlene Tachoir to Present Clinic and Concert at Indiana University, PA

Source: Michael Ricci
October 7, 2009

Continue Reading...

Turiya Mareya and the Tijuana Latin Jazz Project

Source: All About Jazz
October 6, 2009

Tijuana has long been a haven for punk and electronica, plus the top-40 and hip-hop blaring from clubs along Avenida Revolucion. Latin Jazz pianist Turiya Mareya hopes to diversify the city's musical portfolio.

In August 2009 Turiya Mareya returned to her home base in Tijuana, Mexico after an extended tour in Canada and Israel to begin a new weekly concert series at El Dragon Rojo Bar. The program will include jam sessions, composer-driven performances and spoken word.

“We are going ...

Continue Reading...