Performance / Tour News

Joe Albano and the Meanderthals Live at the Stone NYC!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 17, 2009

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Charlie O's Jazz This Week

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2009

Charile O's Sunday line-up begins with Ron Anthony and Barry Zweig are here on the 16th with Kendall Kay and Luther Hughes.

Our Monday performances in August this week include the great Luther Hughes Cannonball Coltrane Project (Luther, Ed Czach, Bruce Babad, Glenn Cashman, Paul Kreibich) on the 17th. Reservations are suggested for these performances.

Tuesday performance of the John Altman Quartet (John, Mike Lang, Frank DeVito, Harvey Newmark) on the 18th. Reservations highly suggested for this night.

The Wednesday ...

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40 Years Later, Havens Performs Iconic Woodstock Song

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2009

Richie Havens performed “Freedom", 40 years later, on the original Woodstock site.

Nearly 40 years to the day that he christened the crowning achievement of the 1960s counterculture, Richie Havens returned to an open field in Sullivan County to sing about a primal human condition, the pursuit of which binds us all.

“Freedom," Havens bellowed from the top of the hill upon which hundreds of thousands descended in August 1969 for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.

“Freedom," he repeated. ...

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This Month Upstairs at Vitello's

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2009

New Jazz Venue: Upstairs at Vitello's is a custom-built listening room over Vitello's Italian Restaurant in Studio City; it is called the Upstairs Room.

Like a Vegas lounge, with great sound, lights and stage and there is not a bad seat in the house. Vocalist April Williams

Local musicians say this room is reminiscent of the clubs of Dante's and Shellys Manhole.

Voted Best Live Entertainment by Los Angeles Magazine Best of the Best of LA ...

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Jazz This Week: Hamiet Bluiett Opens Robbie's; Matthew Von Doran and Corey Christiansen at the Gramophone; and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 16, 2009

Though we're still in what's generally the slow season of the year for jazz in St. Louis, there are a couple of noteworthy events coming up this week featuring nationally known musicians with ties to the St. Louis area.On Friday, the highly acclaimed baritone saxophonist Hamiett Bluiett, who was born and still lives in Brooklyn, IL, opens the new venue Robbie's House of Jazz (in the former Cookie's Jazz and More location at 20 Allen Ave. in Webster ...

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Diana Krall Spends Brazilian-Inspired "Quiet Nights" with LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
August 15, 2009

GRAMMY-WINNER DIANA KRALL SPENDS BRAZILIAN-INSPIRED QUIET NIGHTS WITH THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 AND 22, 2009, AT 8:30 PM

August 21 Performance is Generously Sponsored by Princess Cruises August 21 Media Sponsor: 94.7 The Wave August 22 Promotion Partner: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Chart-topping jazz artist Diana Krall returns to the Hollywood Bowl to celebrate her latest release, Quiet Nights, as part of the Los Angeles ...

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Moppa Elliott Jazz History Scrambled, with Love and Respect

Source: Michael Ricci
August 15, 2009

Theres a bustling, ostentatious impiety in the music of Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, its a jazz quartet with a diligent grasp of history but an anarchic take on convention.

At Zebulon in Brooklyn late on Thursday night, the group riffled through jazz idioms with hammy geniality, like an impressionist flaunting celebrity voices. The unruliness didnt remotely make it a mess.

Mr. Elliott and his band mates the trumpeter Peter Evans, the saxophonist ...

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Benny Green Tribute to Oscar Peterson on Jazz NW, August 16

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
August 15, 2009

The general consensus is that one of the major highlights at this Summer’s Jazz Port Townsend was The Tribute to Oscar Peterson played by the Benny Green Trio. This exciting performance brought the capacity audience to its feet with the brillance of Benny Green’s Tribute to piano great Oscar Peterson. Most of the music was also composed by Oscar Peterson. This special concert will air on Jazz Northwest from 88.5, KPLU and kplu.org on Sunday August 16 at 1 PM ...

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