Performance / Tour News

Award Winning Canadian Jazz Pianist Steve Holt to Perform in Fort Lauderdale

Source: Michael Ricci
September 10, 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE, Sept 8 – Top Canadian jazz pianist and composer Steve Holt is confirmed to perform three nights in Fort Lauderdale next month, at BLUE JEAN BLUES – Fort Lauderdale’s new jazz and blues club. The performances will mark the first time Mr. Holt has performed in Florida. Born in Montreal Canada, Steve Holt was a child prodigy who started to play piano at the age of four. He began his professional career playing clubs in Montreal and later ...

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Bontaj Roulet: Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal @ Berkeley Greek

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2009

This summer, “Alone & Together", Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal two leading lights of modern blues are joining forces for their first-ever tour together.

The “BonTaj Roulet" tour a coast-to-coast, 30-date outing in August and Friday September 11th at the University of California Berkeley Greek Theater.

The show will feature Bonnie and Taj on stage alone and together. Bonnie, backed by her always-dazzling group, and Taj, with the six-piece, Grammy-winning Phantom Blues Band, will play full sets separately, ...

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An Experienced Leader Brings out a Collectivist Spirit

Source: Michael Ricci
September 10, 2009

There are few musicians in jazz with a more untroubled sense of leadership than the bassist Dave Holland. Since the first recordings made under his name, in the early 1970s, Mr. Holland has expressed his point of view with gracious clarity, drawing out the best from his partners while keeping a firm hand on the tiller. But he’s after a greater spirit of collectivism with the Overtone Quartet, which made its first public appearance at the Blue Note on Tuesday ...

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A Jazz Piano Plus

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
September 10, 2009

When some things in jazz have been in retrenchment mode this year - festivals, magazines - here's a positive note for the future.Randy Weston will be featured in a solo piano concert October 12 at the Somerville Theater in Somerville MA, kicking off a series of annual concerts celebrating the legacy of Thelonious Monk (who would have been 92 on October 10).Pennsylvania-based World Piano Summit (worldpianosummit.com) is sponsoring the metropolitan Boston jazz series, which it says ...

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Benevento/Russo Duo Tour

Source: JamBase
September 10, 2009

Benevento/Russo Duo Tour

Benevento/Russo Duo will perform a mini-tour down the East Coast this November.

Benevento/Russo Duo Tour Dates 11/06/09 Fri The Note West Chester, PA 11/07/09 Sat The 8X10 Baltimore, MD 11/09/09 Mon Boone Saloon Boone, NC 11/10/09 Tue The Garage at Biltmore Asheville, NC 11/11/09 Wed The Pour House Music Hall Raleigh, NC 11/12/09 Thu The Pour House Charleston, SC 11/14/09 Sat Bear Creek ...

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Assembly of Dust: Fall Tour Dates w/ Emmitt-Nershi Band

Source: JamBase
September 10, 2009

Assembly Of Dust Fall Tour

Assembly of Dust will bring their “voltaic, raw live performances" (Paste) to the masses when they head out on a fall tour in support of their critically lauded new album Some Assembly Required, kicking off on September 10. Some Assembly Required is being hailed as a triumph. USA Today says the band “dazzle" and the album's tracks “stand tall."

Some Assembly Required contains the strongest collection of songs the group has created to date, each ...

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Allman Brothers/WSP | 09.01 and 09.02 | Chicago

Source: JamBase
September 10, 2009

Words by: Herschel Concepcion | Images by: Norman Sands

Allman Brothers Band/Widespread Panic :: 09.01.09 & 09.02.09 :: Charter One Pavilion :: Chicago, IL

Widespread Panic :: 09.02 :: Chicago, IL I remember the rush of excitement I felt when the Allman Brothers/Widespread Panic co-bill tour was first announced. It was last spring, and I was giddy like a schoolgirl with the latest gossip, calling all of my friends and sharing the news with anyone who would listen, and ...

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Natalie Cole at the Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
September 10, 2009

Natalie Cole at the Bowl: 'Healthy and whole and 100%'

You got the feeling Wednesday night that Natalie Cole couldnt have been happier to be pulling into the Hollywood Bowl nearly two months late for her gig. I never thought Id be standing here healthy, whole and 100% again, the 59-year-old singer told the crowd, which cheered her return to the concert stage following a kidney transplant in May that prompted the postponement of her scheduled July 15 concert. Her ...

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