Performance / Tour News

Valerie Capers at Banana Puddin Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
July 24, 2009

RomeNeal's Banana Puddin Jazz proudly presents The Valerie Capers Trio Valerie Capers (piano) John Robinson (bass) Rudy Lawless (drums) Saturday, August 1, 2009, 9:00 P.M. $15 $10 (Jammin' musicians only) Followed by an open mic Complimentary Banana Puddin for All reservation recommended: 212-465-3167 or [email protected] Nuyorican Poets Cafe 236 East 3rd Street (Bet B & C Aves) (take F-train to ...

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Jazz This Week: Good 4 the Soul, Lamar Harris, le Jazz Hot, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 24, 2009

There's only time for a short post today, as yr. humble editor is in the process of setting up a new computer here at StLJN HQ to replace the on-its-last-legs system I've been using, but I did want to call to your attention a handful of jazz-related events happening this weekend in St. Louis. On Friday and Saturday, the jazz/funk/R&B group Good 4 The Soul returns once again to Jazz at the Bistro, closing out the venue's summer ...

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Paul McCartney | 07.17.09 | New York

Source: JamBase
July 23, 2009

Words by: Ron Hart

Paul McCartney :: 07.17.09 :: Citi Field :: Flushing Meadows, NY

The Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965 One of my all-time favorite stories about my mom was the time she had my grandfather take her and her girlfriend to Shea Stadium to see The Beatles in 1965.

Now, depending on who you talked to, it was either the greatest thing a person could ever experience in their lives or the thing that gave them a ...

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Warmly Balancing Mind and Heart

Source: Michael Ricci
July 23, 2009

Marcus Roberts draws few distinctions between the playful and the professorial. As a pianist, bandleader and composer-arranger he balances erudition against reserves of charisma and wit. His first set at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Tuesday night was typical: generous in its warmth and strategic in its pacing, with a wealth of serendipitous detail. Mr. Roberts filled the set largely with material from a new album, “New Orleans Meets Harlem Vol. 1” (J Master), his first in eight years. As on ...

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Show Tunes, Through a Jazz Wringer

Source: Michael Ricci
July 23, 2009

When he was a teenager, the jazz pianist Bill Charlap recalled at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday evening, he met the composer Jule Styne and asked him for the secret to writing a good popular song. Mr. Styne, choosing his words carefully, replied that it had to be “melodically simple and harmonically attractive.” Mr. Charlap used the Styne tune “Just in Time” as an illustration. The melody’s nub consists of two adjacent notes repeated again and again, with some ...

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The Roots | 07.08.09 | New York

Source: JamBase
July 22, 2009

Words by: Alex Borsody | Images by: Robert Chapman

The Roots :: 07.08.09 :: Highline Ballroom :: New York, NY

Black Thought :: 07.08 The line stretched down the block, people of all ages waiting to enter NYC's Highline Ballroom for “The Roots Present the Jam Produced by Jill Newman Productions." Even though it was a Wednesday night, this and every other Jam was sold out. The floral smell inside gave new meaning to the phrase “high art," and ...

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Mark Rapp Set to Play WC Handy Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
July 22, 2009

This weekend (July 24 & 25), trumpeter and composer Mark Rapp and his NY-based band will come back for a second year in a row bringing his original sounds of contemporary/modern Jazz to Florence, Alabama at the 28th annual WC Handy Festival. Past festivals have had such greats as Dizzy Gillispie, Take6, Henry Butler, Ellis Marsalis and more and Rapp duly notes, “I'm very excited to be back south and honored to play such a highly regarded festival." ...

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Montreux Jazz Winner/Cole Porter Fellow, Dan Tepfer in "Variations on Goldberg"

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
July 22, 2009

Lampkin Music Group is proud to present “Dan Tepfer in 'Variations on Goldberg" A Solo Piano Concert Sunday, September 13th at 7:00 p.m. Palais Royale at the Morric Performing Arts Center South Bend, Indiana 105 West Colfax Street Tickets are $25.00 Montreux Jazz/Cole Porter Competition Winner, Dan Tepfer, an acclaimed French/American classical/jazz pianist, who was recently praised for his “brilliant career" in the New York Times, has been ...

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