Performance / Tour News

Angel City Jazz Festival Ford Amphitheatre This Weekend

Source: Michael Ricci
September 4, 2009

In a climate where jazz clubs are closing, reports on jazz's demise are multiplying and a recession has taken a bite out of live music spending, the second annual Angel City Jazz Festival is taking the counter-intuitive approach: It's growing.

Conceived by longtime promoter (and former club owner) Rocco Somazzi, Angel City debuted last year as an all-day smorgasbord of local and out-of-town players from across the jazz spectrum, including Alan Pasqua, Elliott Sharp and Nels Cline. But this weekend's ...

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Ralph Peterson Trio Opens the 3rd Season of "Jazz at the Turning Point Cafe" Sat Sept 26

Source: All About Jazz
September 4, 2009

Master Drummer Ralph Peterson brings his trio for the opening event of the 3rd season of the critically acclaimed series Jazz at the Turning Point Caf, Piermont, NY.

The trio features Zaccai Curtis, piano and Dezron Douglas, bass. The TPC is just 25 minutes from NYC, NJ, CT, Westchester, Orange. The Concert Jazz series has a new day and time, 2-3 Saturdays/Sundays per month at 6-7:30pm.

The atmosphere, acoustics and prices are great and parking is ...

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Travis Shook Meets Jazz Comeback Head on at Tula's

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
September 4, 2009

The jazz pianist Travis Shook, a curiosity to some who remember his name, a cautionary tale for others, lives in rural, upstate New York, far from the city and the place he first greeted fame. People don't recognize him much these days, and for a long time he preferred it that way. “I'm 40 and I feel a lot more comfortable with myself now," said Shook, a fixture on the Seattle jazz scene in the early 1990s and once considered ...

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Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola October 2009 Lineup

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2009

Dizzys Club Coca-Cola October 2009 Lineup

Tuesday-Sunday, September 29-October 4 Karrin Allyson w/ Rod Fleeman, Peter Washington & Lewis Nash 7:30pm & 9:30pm only Featuring Karrin Allyson (vocals), Rod Fleeman (guitar), Peter Washington (bass), Lewis Nash (drums). After Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, September 29-October 3 - Lisa Parrott & Friends Monday, October 5 UPSTARTS! Special Monday Presentation Nikki Yanofsky Ella: Of Thee I Swing Tuesday, October 6 Playing Our Parts Benefit The second annual benefit concert for the Jazz Foundation of America ...

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The New York Blues and Jazz Society Battle of the Bands Oct 4th at Mexicali Live, Teaneck NJ

Source: Just Roots PR
September 3, 2009

The New York Blues and Jazz Society “Battle of The Bands” is scheduled for October 4th, 5 PM at Mexicali Live 1409 Queen Anne Rd, Teaneck, NJ.

The Bands who are the finalists and their order of performance are:

Breakaway

Johnny Feds and Da Bluez Boyz

The East River Blues Band

The Steve Johnson Band

The Mick Hayes Band

The Judges will be: Hall of Fame DJ and WBGO’s Bob Porter; WFDU DJ E.B.Fisher; Past IBC Band winner Dave Keyes; ...

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Cleo Laine with John Dankworth Group in Concert at Pepperdine University

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2009

Hear the fabulous Cleo Laine with the John Dankworth Group in concert at Pepperdine University in Malibu.

Friday, September 18!

Cleo Laine is a singer who has done just about everything. She's played everywhere - English dance halls to London's Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie to the Blue Note Cafe. She's been on stage, on Broadway, to London's West End, done opera and the BBC.

The London-born Laine can sing opera or jazz with her set of multi-octave pipes. A star ...

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Jazzy Variations on Kurt Weill's Themes

Source: Michael Ricci
September 3, 2009

Ever since its introduction by Mary Martin in the 1943 musical “One Touch of Venus,” the Kurt Weill-Ogden Nash ballad “Speak Low,” crooned against a softened tango beat, has been synonymous with Olympian seduction. (That goddess-made-flesh Ava Gardner, her voice dubbed, performed it in the movie.) An investigative rendition of “Speak Low” by the jazz quartet West 73rd, in which the rhythm suggested a heartbeat slowing and quickening as if the song were on the verge of death before being ...

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Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble | 08.08 | NY

Source: JamBase
September 3, 2009

Words & Images by: Tim Dwenger

Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble :: 08.08.09 :: The Barn (Levon Helm Studios) :: Woodstock, NY

Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble :: 08.08 In a day and age when ticket prices for the big shed and arena shows are soaring well into the triple digits, it has become increasingly more common for a couple to drop obscene amounts of money on a night out to see legends like Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel or ...

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