Performance / Tour News

Encuentro! Latin Jazz Weekend: An NJPAC Exclusive Double-Bill

Source: All About Jazz
October 6, 2009

Baila Mi Gente Latin Jazz Dance Party, October 30th, 7:30pm,Victoria Theater

Paquito DRivera, Cuban Jazz, the Next Generation, October 31st, 7:30pm, Victoria Theater

Spanish Harlem Orchestra and Tito Puente Jr. Orchestra, November 1st, 5pm, Prudential Hall

NJPACs Alternate Routes Series presents its annual fiery weekend of Latin jazz with three performances from Friday, October 30 through Sunday, November 1, 2009. The culminating event on Sunday, November 1 at 5:00pm brings together on Prudential Halls ...

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Progressive Cuban Jazz with the Elio Villafranca Quintet at the Jazz Standard

Source: entertainmentPR
October 6, 2009

When it comes to authentic Cuban Jazz, The Elio Villafranca Quintet brings you only the best.

Elio Villafranca first appeared on stage with his quartet in the New Dimensions in Latin Jazz Series in 2007. Since then, this gifted pianist and composer won the first NFA/Heineken Green Ribbon Master Artist Music Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC).

“The musical history of Cuba is full of extraordinary pianists,” says the legendary Paquito D’Rivera, “and Elio ...

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Marianne Faithfull at Royce Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
October 6, 2009

The '60 survivor takes an emotional journey through her career, including her new album and the hit that started it all, Jagger-Richards' 'As Tears Go By.'

Marianne Faithfull has lived a life of reinterpretation. She began as a pretty young face with a sweet voice, scoring her first hit with the precocious Jagger-Richards ballad “As Tears Go By," a 1964 Brit-pop single that might have suggested a career as Kiki Dee or Petula Clark. But she had other ideas, and ...

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'Sammy' at the Old Globe

Source: Michael Ricci
October 6, 2009

His shoulders are slumped from too many gigs, too many drugs and way too many women. The bags around his eyes droop nearly to the bottom of his cocktail glass. His whole body is haloed in the cigarette smoke that would contribute to his death from throat cancer at 64.

As channeled by Obba Babatund, Sammy Davis Jr. finally concedes to the exhaustion that hes been postponing since his days as an adorable child dancer working the vaudeville circuit with ...

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Truth & Soul's Michael Leonhart & the Avramina 7 Joe's Pub Residency

Source: All About Jazz
October 6, 2009

Trumpet player, producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and singer-songwriter Michael Leonhart and his band “the Avramina 7" are pleased to announce their monthly residency at New York’s Joe’s Pub, beginning Wednesday, October 7, and continuing though the rest of 2009. Despite being the newest group on Truth & Soul Records, the band is anything but inexperienced. Michael himself, a New York native, won a GRAMMY at 17 for being most outstanding musician in a US high school, and plays trumpet for ...

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Trumpet Phenom Joey Pero to Perform Acclaimed 'Resonance' CD Live at Feinstein's

Source: All About Jazz
October 6, 2009

On October 15th and 16th, New York's Feinstein's at Loews Regency the celebrated mecca for outstanding music performance - will host world-renown trumpeter Joey Pero and his high-energy ensemble performing selections from his recently highly-acclaimed CD, Resonance.

These live performances by Pero's ensemble are expected to continue and amplify the significant media interest and tremendous audience buzz emanating from Pero's recent live New York performances.

This is a very special treat for the band and me to bring 'Resonance' from ...

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Steve Lehman Live in New Haven and Remembering James P. Johnson

Source: See! Hear! by Richard Kamins
October 6, 2009

Hard to believe it's been 7 years since Steve Lehman graduated from Wesleyan but not surprising when one sees how busy he's been.  The alto saxophonist and and composer has studied with Jackie McLean, Anthony Braxton, Jay Hoggard, Ron Kuivila and George Lewis, has taught in Paris and is currently working on a Ph.D (as well as teaching) at Columbia University in New York City.He leads his own ensembles and has recorded for CIMP, Clean Feed, and Pi ...

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MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra and Bobby Sanabria to Honor Maestro Ray Santos: A Life in Latin Music

Source: Michael Ricci
October 6, 2009

The recently Grammy nominated Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra directed by Maestro Bobby Sanabria honors another Maestro, the legendary composer, arranger Ray Santos on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the School's John C. Borden Auditorium. That evening, showcased will be music that will span Maestro Santos's entire prolific career. Performed will be specific pieces that he either composed and/or arranged for such legends as Machito & The Afro-Cubans, Tito Puente, Mario Bauza' as well as his ...

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