Performance / Tour News

Frenette Trio/Platz Ensemble/Welcome Quartet - 9/25 @ The Outpost

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2009

Friday September 25, 2009 An Evening of Strange Guitar The Kevin Frenette Trio The Jeff Platz Ensemble The Chris Welcome Quartet OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139 8:00 PM The Kevin Frenette Trio Kevin Frenette (guitar) James Rohr (piano) Eric Rosenthal (drums) Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and ...

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Randy Ingram Trio @ Smalls, Wednesday September 23rd

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2009

Randy Ingram Trio @ Smalls Jazz Club Wednesday, Sept. 23rd, 7:30pm (one set only) Randy Ingram, Piano, Matt Clohesy, Bass, Tommy Crane, Drums Smalls Jazz Club 183 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10014 (212) 252-5091 or smallsjazzclub.com for info and directions How Much: $20 (includes one drink) “Randy Ingram is among the vanguard of young jazz pianists on the New York scene. He plays with finesse, thoughtfulness and passion." - Fred Hersch SInce moving to ...

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Jazz Geggie Series Presents Padovani, Trudel and Mazza

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2009

The National Arts Centre is pleased to announce the Fourth Stage 10th season with the return of the critically acclaimed Geggie Series. The first concert of the season will be presented in collaboration with the Embassy of France and the Alliance Franaise on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8pm. The concert will have a transatlantic flavour with the presence of French saxophonist Jean-Marc Padovani, pianist Marianne Trudel and drummer/percussionist Aldo Mazza, both from Montreal. Explains John Geggie 'I am thrilled ...

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To Little Russia with Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2009

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC presents an evening of Jazz in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn sometimes called “Little Russia". The concert will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, 8:00 PM, at the posh Oceana Hall located at 1029 Brighton Beach Avenue just one block north of the Brighton Beach boardwalk. Performances by The Jeff King Band with vocalist Gregory Porter, Juju Jazz Band plus Brooklyn Bebop jazz dancing. CBJC is known throughout central Brooklyn for bringing first class ...

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Mark Isham Live at the Apple Store

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2009

Live at the Apple Store: Mark Isham

Grammy Award‒winning trumpet player and Oscar-nominated film composer Mark Isham provided music for the upcoming films “Fame" and “Bad Lieutenant." See Mark and his band, Houston Street, at this special live performance and hear songs from his latest album, Bittersweet, a collection of timeless jazz standards.

Join Mark Isham and his band, Houston Street, for a special live show. September 20, 3:00 p.m. Apple Computer Store on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa ...

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Chicago Jazz Scene

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2009

Chicago Jazz Clubs Dates September/ October

The sad state of jazz venues in Chicago. The Jazz Showcase, the areas biggest jazz venue closed its doors at the end of 2007 after they were not able to renew their lease. Now the HotHouse, Chicago second largest venue that was beginging to pick up the slack with out the Showcase around is closed. Northwestern just canceled their jazz program at the end of the last school year.

Jazz is no ...

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Jazz Singer Gretchen Parlato: Her Music is Pacific, Like the Ocean

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
September 19, 2009

The title of Gretchen Parlato's new album “In a Dream" (Obliqsound) aptly captures the sustained mood of ethereal introspection that she evokes from the first track to the last. Possessing an enticingly crystalline voice and a ravishing concept deeply informed by samba ballads and bossa nova, Parlato is among the very best of a rising generation of jazz singers, an artist who has taken her own sweet time forging a highly personal sound unlike that of any of her peers. ...

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Ann Hampton Callaway to Perform Friday, October 2 at the Contemporary Art Museum

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 19, 2009

Singer, pianist and songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to perform on Friday, October 2, 2009 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Blvd in Grand Center.The event, entitled “Queens of Jazz," will serve as a kick-off for the 2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship, which begins the next day and continues through October 14 with events in various locations around town. St. Louis' own Denise Thimes will open the show at 7:30 ...

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