Performance / Tour News

Patty Ascher at Feinstein's

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 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 jazz vocalist, PATTY ASCHER September 8 – 12.

In this special promotional event, Ascher will premier songs from her soon to be released CD, Jazz’n’ Samba - a collection of her own compositions, highlighting the fusion of cool jazz with syncopated samba, in a very genuine ...

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Jazz Celebration Big Band

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

Jazz Celebration Big Band...a 17 piece Jazz Orchestra, featuring vocalist Claudia Perry, will appear at the Temperance House, 5 South State Street, Newtown, PA, 18940 on Thursday, September 17, from 8-10:00 p.m. Reservations are highly suggested; 215-860-9975. Further info at www.temperancehouse.com $10.00 cover; dinner, alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages available. Jazz Celebration Big Band performs music in the large orchestra genre; Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson etc. It's musicians have performed for/with: Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Manhattan Transfer, The Four ...

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LA Phil Presents Corea, Clarke & White

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

LA Phil Presents Corea, Clarke & White – Wednesday, September 2, 8:00pm at the Hollywood Bowl with special guests Chaka Khan, Jean-Luc Ponty and Bill Connors John Scofield & the Piety Street Band Three musical masters – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White – converge again after a triumphant reunion year with Return to Forever. Enjoy a power trip through an acoustic, electric, funky, and rock fusion of jazz like no ...

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Veteran Bluesmen Doc Maclean and Big Dave McLean Team up for 100-Date Canadian Tour

Source: Just Roots PR
September 2, 2009

DOC MacLEAN teams up with Winnipeg's BIG DAVE McLEAN Two Canadian blues veterans join forces to recreate early blues history at Hugh's Room Toronto

Hugh's Room 2261 Dundas St. W, Toronto Wednesday Sept. 9; doors at 6.30 p.m., show at 8:30 PM Tickets: $16.00 in advance / $18.50 at door Reservations: 416 531-6604. Dinner reservations recommended.

Doc MacLean and Big Dave McLean are among the handful of Canadian artists who ...

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Aziza Keyes Press Quotes

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

Aziza has been blessed with the beautiful gift of creating powerful music; which is inspiring, motivating and soothing. Her piano artistry and her soulful voice can send you into dimensions of contemplation and realisation - and awakening. Jazzoetry is truly beautiful.

Nobody can school an audience quite like the multi-talented Aziza. With a get down mix of smoothed out jazz grooves, R&B melodies and spoken word soul which she has aptly dubbed Jazzsoetry, the gifted composer, keyboardist and vocalist has ...

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Jazz Standard Announces Schedule for October 2009

Source: AMT Public Relations
September 1, 2009

JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into October with Return Visits from Saxophonist Joshua Redman and the 7th Annual Festival of New Trumpet (Font) Music

Best Jazz Club 2008 (New York Magazine)

JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in October.

The annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) returns to our stage from October 1–4, curated by acclaimed composer/player Dave Douglas. On October 7–8, bassist Joe Martin celebrates his new Anzic Records release, Not ...

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Dave Allen Quartet Featuring David Liebman - September at 55 Bar

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2009

Dave Allen Quartet performs September 8th at the 55 Bar.

Dave Allen Quartet with Dave Liebman - sax Chris Lightcap - bass Adam Cruz - drums

55 Bar 55 Christopher St 10pm-1am

Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind--again and again. ...

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Liza Minnelli at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2009

Liza Minnelli played the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, and the incessant gigglers in the audience were clearly nervous about which Minnelli was going to show up.

Would it be the one whose latest Broadway outing, Lizas at the Palace, won a Tony or the erratic Minnelli of Minnelli on Minnelli, the show in honor of her director father, Vincente Minnelli, in which she tried to make another one of her comebacks before she was theatrically fit?

The answer turned out ...

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