Performance / Tour News

Jazz This Week: Mulgrew Miller, Rasul Siddik, Tortoise, Dave Black, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 24, 2009

Though this week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis isn't quite as jam-packed as last week's, there are still a number of notable performances happening over the next few days that are worthy of your attention. Let's go to the highlights:Tonight, the very fine pianist Mulgrew Miller opens a four-night run that continues through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Miller was the subject of one of the very first concert reviews on StLJN four ...

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Miguel Zenon Quintet; Byron Vannoy’S Meridian at the Earshot Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

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Beat Kaestli @ Zinc Bar

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2009

Vocalist & Bandleader Beat Kaestli will be performing with his group at The Zinc Bar in New York City on Monday, October 5th, 2009 in celebration of his newest release Far From Home - A Tribute to European Song.

Set Time 7pm to 9 pm

Soulful, sensitive singing. I am impressed by Beat Kaestli’s CD and I look forward to hearing more! -Jon Hendricks

Beat Kaestli - voice Melissa Stylianou - feat. guest vocalist ...

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British Flannel-Wearing Wall of Ragged Sound

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

When it comes to the young British band Fanfarlo, its mostly the trumpet.

At the beginning of The Walls Are Coming Down, the groups current single, Leon Beckenham, playing that instrument, steers the song with a countermelody thats somehow both lethargic and triumphant while the singer Simon Balthazar muses on the descent of the would-be exorcist Pellegrino Ernetti. All in all, the horn tells the better tale.

Fanfarlo: The British band performing at the Bowery Ballroom. Leon Beckenham, Cathy Lucas, ...

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Outdoor Simulcast Set for Gustavo Dudamel's Disney Hall Gala Concert

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

The festivities surrounding the Los Angeles arrival of conductor Gustavo Dudamel seem to grow larger every day.

The latest addition to the celebration is a planned outdoor simulcast of Dudamel's Oct. 8 gala concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Set to take place at the Music Center Plaza, the live simulcast will feature eight plasma screens (and four more indoors) that will show the concert to an audience of 3,000.

Organizers at the Music Center said tickets to the simulcast ...

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Soweto Gospel Choir Come to Swansea Grand Theatre

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2009

Two-time Grammy Award winners--Soweto Gospel Choir come to Swansea Grand Theatre as part of their autumn UK tour. Following enormous success on their last visit to the city, they have a brand new concert show Soweto Gospel Choir In Concert, which they will perform at the Grand on 10 October as part of the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts. The show will feature new songs from their latest album Grace, which was released in June this year, together ...

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Michael Wollf Trio at the Kennedy Center on October 24th

Source: Seth Cohen PR
September 22, 2009

Michael Wolff Trio to Appear at The Kennedy Center, with Special Guest Steve Wilson Live Review: “All of the music felt very full and passionately alive” “Wolff proved to be one of the most engaging all-around performers in the entire jazz game” The acclaimed Michael Wolff Trio will have the honor of performing at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on October 24th. Wolff will play selections from his recent CD ‘Joe’s Strut’ (WRONG Records,) which has been praised as ...

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Jazzman Sonny Rollins is a hit at the Touhill

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 22, 2009

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins has a reputation for performances of transcendent artistry, and he lived up to it Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Leading a sextet through a program that included jazz standards and original tunes, Rollins kept an audience of more than 1,500 spellbound. The concert was presented by Jazz St. Louis. The 90-minute set had a headlong energy that barely allowed the crowd to catch its breath. Accompanied by trombonist Clifton Anderson, guitarist ...

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