Performance / Tour News

Kyle Hollingsworth Album: And Tour w/ Zach Gill

Source: JamBase
July 30, 2009

KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH BAND ANNOUNCES FALL TOUR DATES INCLUDING WEST COAST SHOWS WITH ZACH GILL HOLLINGSWORTH RELEASES SECOND SOLO ALBUM, THEN THERE'S NOW, ON SEPTEMBER 15

Kyle Hollingsworth For more than a decade, as keyboardist for Colorado's beloved String Cheese Incident, Kyle Hollingsworth has consistently proven one of the most innovative and virtuosic musicians on the American jamband scene. Now, with the September 15 release of Then There's Now (SCI Fidelity Records), his first album since the ...

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Tanya Tagaq: 1st US Solo Tour August 8-20

Source: Michael Ricci
July 29, 2009

Award Winning Inuit Throat Singer Tanya Tagaq Headlines Her First US Solo Tour

Award winning performer Tanya Tagaq will embark on her first US solo tour in August to showcase her unique style of Inuit throat singing that has critics raving as “mind-blowing" (Time Out UK), “fiercely contemporary, futuristic even," (NY Times), and “remarkable" (LA Times). The Nunavut-born singer has gained notoriety through partnering with the world's most groundbreaking artists, including a successful 2008 tour that she co-wrote and performed ...

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Jazz Singer & Songwriter, Juliet Kelly, Puts the Glam Back into Jazz with Licorice Kiss UK Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 29, 2009

“With her honey-tone vocals, insightful, personal lyrics, savvy original songs and intelligent choice of covers, she effortlessly mixes jazz, soul, pop and funk... one of the UK's finest singers in any genre." --TIME OUT Acclaimed jazz singer & songwriter, Juliet Kelly, tours her own brand of “glam jazz" around the UK to promote her new album, Licorice Kiss. Juliet has supported the likes of Take 6 and Georgie Fame and performed with Courtney Pine, Talvin Singh and Carleen Anderson. With ...

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Mysterium - An Electric Soundpainting Septet, Plays Brooklyn

Source: Michael Ricci
July 29, 2009

Monday, August 24th, 10:30pm MYSTERIUM - AN ELECTRIC SOUNDPAINTING SEPTET Adam Caine - Electric Guitar James Ilgenfritz - Electric Bass Jeremy Danneman - Alto, Baritone Sax Lorenzo Sanguedolce - Tenor Sax Sam Kulik - Trombone Eric Eigner - Drumset Evan Mazunik - Soundpainter “Mysterium for Soundpainting Septet utilizes the history of American popular music and beyond to construct ...

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Brazillian Legend Leny Andrade Retuns to Birdland from Rio

Source: Michael Ricci
July 29, 2009

After a very successful week last summer at the legendary club Birdland in NYC, where Leny Andrade received a rave review from The New York Times, she's been invited back to Birdland and will go on tour to important Festivals and clubs in and around NY: The Litchfield Festival Summer Concerts on the Hudson in NJ, Scullers in Boston, Belleayre Music Festival in Belleayre NY (in the Catskills), and “back to Birdland."

“To describe Ms. Andrade as both the Sarah ...

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Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
July 29, 2009

Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead at the Hollywood Bowl

All-Star Jazz Line-up Celebrates Miles Davis and Gil Evans Partnership

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009, AT 8 PM

Media Sponsor: KJAZZ 88.1

The 2009 Jazz series at the Hollywood Bowl continues on Wednesday, August 5, at 8pm, with Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead, featuring soloists Terence Blanchard, Jimmy Cobb, Peter Erskine, Howard Johnson, Christian McBride and Nicholas Payton, backed by a jazz ensemble led by conductor Vince Mendoza. Miles Evans serves as ...

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Top Jazz Artists to Perform Free Concerts

Source: Michael Ricci
July 29, 2009

Stockton, CA - Some of the best high school jazz musicians from throughout the country will gather at the Brubeck Institute on the campus of University of the Pacific from Aug. 9 through 15 for a one-week intensive jazz colony led by some of the top jazz artists and clinicians in the industry. The annual program will culminate in two free concerts by both the artists and colonists.

The Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony concerts provide an opportunity for jazz ...

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An Edifying Evening of Gerry Mulligan Gold

Source: Michael Ricci
July 29, 2009

Bill Charlap waited until almost the last possible moment in “The Gerry Mulligan Songbook,” a tribute at the 92nd Street Y on Monday night, before divulging a sentimental piece of trivia. It was in that room, he said, where he played his first concert with Mulligan’s quartet, in 1988. The evidence suggests that it was a fine debut: a review in The New York Times singled out Mr. Charlap as “a particularly enlivening element in the group,” adding that “broad ...

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