Performance / Tour News

Jazz This Week: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ann Hampton Callaway, Eric Person, Frank Catalano, Frank Rosaly, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 1, 2009

You might say this week's menu of jazz and creative music events in St. Louis has a sort of Noah's Ark vibe to it. The performances are coming in pairs, including two female vocalists, two versatile saxophonists, and two shows with an experimental/free improv bent.It all gets started on Thursday, when Chicago percussionist Frank Rosaly does a solo show of music from his new recording Milkwork at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. Rosaly uses both acoustic and electric instruments, ...

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John Fogerty: Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
September 30, 2009

PEOPLE ON THE RIVER WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE HIM

John Fogerty On November 12, John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) will launch a national tour in support of his new album, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again (released August 31 on Fortunate Son/Verve Forecast), as a follow up to Fogerty's 1973 solo debut.

This week, Fogerty received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association. He'll kickoff the first season of Live By Request on PBS, and ...

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Mauger in the Elm City October 2

Source: See! Hear! by Richard Kamins
September 30, 2009

(photo by Scott Friedlander)The trio of Mark Dresser (bass), Gerry Hemingway (drums, percussion) and Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto saxophone), collectively known as Mauger, performs 2 sets (8:30 and 10 p.m.) of exciting new works and improvisations Friday October 2 as part of the Firehouse 12 Fall 09 Concert Series.Dresser and Hemingway have worked together on numerous projects. With the addition of Mahanthappa, they create music that is, at times, airy, challenging, fiery, rhythmically exciting and ...

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Washington University Concert to Explore Chance Via Music from Cage, Riley

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 30, 2009

Musicians and dancers affiliated with Washington University will explore the use of chance in contemporary music in a concert at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 7 at the 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave. in University City.The concert program will begin with “Music of Changes Book IV: New York, December 13," a piece for solo piano composed by John Cage by consulting the I Ching, as performed by pianist Peter Henderson. Next on the program will be “The Oracle," ...

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Loren Stillman Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2009

The alto saxophonist Loren Stillman communicates great intensity but not a lot of drama. Hes an intuitive, self-regulating improviser, averse to any flourish that calls attention to itself.

What you hear in his playing is the real-time synthesis of information, chiefly melodic and harmonic, and the rigorous subtlety of his response. At 29, he pairs uncannily mature instincts with the open-minded spark of youth.

Well into his roughly 80-minute set at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday night, he ventured a ...

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Mauricio Zottarelli's Exclusive CD Release Show in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2009

Drummer/Composer Mauricio Zottarelli is performing live with his quintet in NYC, celebrating the release of his new CD “7 Lives".

Mauricio Zottarelli has been actively performing and contributing with some of the most preeminent artists in the Jazz, Latin/Brazilian and Fusion circles. Aside from his recent collaborations with pianist Hiromi's group SonicBloom and jazz/brazilian pianist Eliane Elias, he is also working on getting his own music heard. His new release, the CD entitled “7 Lives”, has been receiving great praise ...

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Michelle Walker Live @ Blues Alley Wed. Sept. 30th

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2009

Michelle Walker Live @ Blues Alley

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Blues Alley Jazz Club 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW Washington, DC 20007 Tel: (202) 337-4141

When: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Two sets: 8pm and 10pm Cover $25.00 Reservations are highly recommended!!!

FEATURING: Benjie Porecki Dave Cosby Michael O'Brien John Davis

NY-based jazz vocalist Michelle Walker returns to her hometown for a wonderful ...

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Ellington-Horton, Carman Moore and Kirke Mechem at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Oct. 4th

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2009

IT WAS IN 1973 DUKE ELLINGTON CHOSE RANDALL KEITH HORTON TO SUCCEED BILLY STRAYHORN On Sunday, October 4th at 7:00PM, Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater presents the premier of A HREF=http:www.randallkeithhorton.com TARGENT=blank>Randall Keith Horton's Ellington-Horton full-length orchestral tone poem, “Black, Brown And Beige." Hear distinguished composer Carman Moore, and Kirke Mechem, the dean of American choral composers! Moore's “Gospel Fuse" and Mechem's “Songs Of The Slave" (the suite from his opera, John Brown) are world-famous compositions that will also ...

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