Performance / Tour News

A Weekend for Floating on the East River

Source: Michael Ricci
September 6, 2009

To celebrate Labor Day, Bargemusic is offering an installment of its inventive Here and Now new-music series, with repeat performances through Sunday. Or modified repeats, anyway: Bargemusics schedule lists 14 works, 9 of which were played at the opening performance, on Wednesday. Mark Peskanov, the violinist who runs this concert barge, said that at the remaining concerts some works would be dropped to make way for others. Deciding which of the scores on the opening program should get the ax ...

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John Fedchock New York Big Band Live at Iridium, Tuesday September 8

Source: Michael Ricci
September 6, 2009

The John Fedchock New York Big Band makes a special appearance at Iridium in NYC on Tuesday September 8, performing two sets at 8pm & 10pm. Made up of New York's jazz elite, the group is stocked with NYC's premier soloists featured in a variety of settings, including straight- ahead big band charts, as well as more progressive and innovative styles. The performance will showcase Fedchock's Grammy-nominated arranging, with material from all four of the band's outstanding CDs including it's ...

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Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Looks Forward to the Past with Tribute to Horace Silver

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
September 5, 2009

In the compressed, sometimes circular history of jazz, the freshest ideas often come from the past. Many young musicians, looking to push their music forward, are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of as modern jazz. A quintet led by trumpeter Thomas Marriott, 33, will attempt to re-create and reinterpret that sound Sunday in a show at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant billed as a tribute to hard-bop pianist and ...

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Robert Glasper Cancels Shows at Jazz at the Bistro; Houston Person Booked to Perform October 7-10

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 5, 2009

Jazz St. Louis has announced another change in the fall schedule for Jazz at the Bistro. Pianist Robert Glasper, who had been scheduled to perform at the Bistro Wednesday, October 7 through Saturday, October 10, has canceled.Saxophonist Houston Person (pictured), who was in town this past weekend to perform at Harris-Stowe State University as part of the fundraising event “A Night of Jazz Greats," has been booked to fill the dates vacated by Glasper. Person has played the ...

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The Eddie Gomez Trio on Tour in Mexico. Featuring Stefan Karlsson & Rodrigo Villanueva

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2009

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Corea, Clarke and White at the Hollywood Bowl with Stevie Wonder

Source: Michael Ricci
September 4, 2009

Ever go to a jazz show and have a pop concert break out? Pardon the reference to the old joke about hockey games and boxing, but that's sort of what happened at Wednesday's Corea, Clarke and White show at the Hollywood Bowl. At the second reunion in as many years of the original members of '70s fusion favorites Return to Forever (Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White), the group was midway through a Chaka Khan-led cover of the Gershwin ...

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Grammy Winning Singer Jon Secada at Feinstein's at Loews Regency

Source: All About Jazz
September 4, 2009

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, will continue its star-studded Fall 2009 season with the debut of Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter, JON SECADA. For his show at Feinstein’s Secada will celebrate the release of his new CD – Expressions: The Jazz Album – a stunning collection of new songs, classic standards and Secada hits. Songs will include the ...

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Jazz at Symphony Center Presents Dianne Reeves & Dave Holland in October

Source: All About Jazz
September 4, 2009

JAZZ AT SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS OUTSTANDING ARTISTS IN TWO OCTOBER CONCERTS: Vocalist Dianne Reeves on Friday, October 16; Dave Holland Plus Vijay Iyer Trio on Friday, October 30

CHICAGO - The 2009-2010 Jazz at Symphony Center concert series, presenting both living legends and today's top talent, gets underway with two exceptional programs in October. On Friday, October 16, at 8 pm, sultry vocalist Dianne Reeves returns to Chicago along with guitarists Russell Malone and Romero Lubambo in a program titled ...

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