Performance / Tour News

Legendary Cuban Singer and Latin Grammy Nominee Omara Portuondo Receives Visa to Promote Concerts in USA

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

Cultural Breakthrough Achieved Six Year Restriction On Musical Performances Lifted San Francisco Jazz Festival October 20 and UCLA October 23 Omara Portuondo, the world renowned vocalist who began her career in the music scene of her native Cuba in the 1940s, has been granted a travel visa to perform in the United States for two very special dates in October. A member of the celebrated Buena Vista Social Club®, Omara is one of the first Cuban artists in six years ...

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Bon Iver at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

In the twilight hours, that liminal space between sunset and sunrise, the eyes and ears are prone to trickery. The imagination takes over; hazy objects resemble ghosts, and faraway sounds evoke werewolves.

But on the precipice of Sunday morning, amid Hollywood Forever Cemeterys tombstones and mausoleums, the misty fog and leaning palm trees, Bon Iver provided an ethereal soundtrack to sunrise.

It was dreamlike as indie folkster and Wisconsonite Justin Vernon walked onstage with his band, Bon Iver, around 6 ...

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Antonio Ciacca Quartet in Lagos Blues

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

Antonio Ciacca Quartet will play in Lagos Blues On October 16, 2009. Ciacca began his career as a sideman for such acclaimed jazz artists as Art Farmer, James Moody, Lee Konitz, Johnny Griffin, Mark Murphy, Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, who he cites as his mentor and with whom he studied for three years beginning in 1990. Steve Grossman will be the special guest in his last album recorded in Bologna “Lagos Blues". It will be released the coming January 2010 ...

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Ornette Coleman, Starring as Himself

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center opened its fall season on Saturday night with a repertory tribute to Ornette Coleman. Not that this sold-out concert, at the Rose Theater, was presented that way: there was no organized script, no resident orchestra, no Wynton Marsalis. The idea, instead, was that Mr. Coleman — the famously inscrutable alto saxophonist, composer and free-jazz pioneer — would make his Jazz at Lincoln Center debut on his own bold terms. He did just that, superbly, but in ...

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It Feels Like Home: The Sounds of Coltrane

Source: Michael Ricci
September 27, 2009

Joe Lovano, jovial but focused, brought his tenor saxophone to his lips at Birdland on Wednesday night, taking charge without preamble or pause.

With his first few notes he traced a syncopated vamp, quickly adopted by the bassist Lonnie Plaxico and the drummer Andrew Cyrille. Then Mr. Lovano pulled back, letting the groove lock in, and started splashing colors around: a plunging eighth-note line, a foghorn low tone, a fast chromatic scribble. He was making himself at home, with casual ...

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LaRe Sings Sneak Preview New CD at Kamasutra Lounge

Source: Michael Ricci
September 27, 2009

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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck: London Concert in February

Source: JamBase
September 27, 2009

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World Piano Summit Presents Jazz Piano Titan Junior Mance

Source: Michael Ricci
September 26, 2009

"Junior Mance is something else... So complete is his psychological command over his instrument that very few of his fellows approach him in this area." --DownBeat Magazine worldpianosummit.com proudly presents Junior Mance at 81 in a rare solo concert at Boston's Church of the Covenant, [67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116] on Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. At age 81, Junior Mance can look back on an amazing life in jazz. Mance was born on October 10, 1928 and ...

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