Performance / Tour News

Alex Stewart Makes Pizza on the Park Debut in London

Source: All About Jazz
July 6, 2009

At just 21 years of age, Alex Stewart, a jazz vocalist for a new generation, performs live at London's prestigious Pizza on the Park venue on Saturday August 1st.

Stewart is already creating a buzz as one of the most precociously talented vocalists of the new generation in the UK. With a voice rooted in Connick and Sinatra, and with a touch of the Kurt Elling rasp, Stewart avoids being a nostalgia act by a judiciously off-beat choice of material ...

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Tradition Leaping to the Sky

Source: Michael Ricci
July 6, 2009

Hiromi began her first set at the Blue Note on Tuesday night with a head fake, unaccompanied at the piano. She was playing an old tune, “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise,” in a vintage stride style: rakish downbeat, rolling tremolos, walking tenths, the whole deal. But then her band clicked into gear, and the song became a new-age dreamscape, gauzy and grandiose, alternating four and three beats to the bar. The shift was deliberately jarring. A similar thing happens ...

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Jazz This Week: Support Your Local Jazz Musicians

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 6, 2009

The Independence Day weekend is not usually a busy time for touring jazz acts visiting St. Louis, and that's true again this year. However, if you've got an urge to hear some jazz over the next few days amidst the flurry of backyard cookouts, fireworks displays, and similar seasonal activities, you can check out one or more of these performances featuring some of St. Louis' fine local musicians:Tonight, Dizzy Atmosphere will bring their blend of string-band swing and ...

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1 Charmer, 5 Albums, and Still a Teenager

Source: Michael Ricci
July 6, 2009

Youth has always been a hot commodity in jazz, even if maturity usually produces better dividends. Grace Kelly, a New England-reared saxophonist, turned 17 in May, shortly after the release of her fifth album, “Mood Changes” (Pazz). Having five albums to her name is a sure testament to her preternatural skill, but it also possibly indicates a discomforting order of priorities. And Ms. Kelly only strengthened that suspicion with her first set at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Monday night. Appearing ...

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Creole Restaurant & Music Supper Club ‘Latin Jazz Legacy Series’ Presents Chembo Corniel Latin Jazz Quintet CD Release Party July 10th & 11th 8 & 10 PM

Source: Ann Forster
July 6, 2009

Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club continues to raise artistic and showcase standards while invigorating the Harlem Jazz scene and proudly presenting the Latin Jazz Legacy Series – featuring the top artists in the Latin Jazz genre – and kicking off with the Chembo Corniel Latin Jazz Quintet – Friday, July 10th and Saturday, July 11, 8:00 and 10:00 PM at Creole, 2167 Third Avenue, Corner of 118th Street, NY, NY 10035. (212) 876-8838. Latin rhythms with Jazz roots reflect ...

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Lee Konitz; "Jammin' on the Hudson"

Source: All About Jazz
July 6, 2009

Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our fifth consecutive year are pleased to present: “Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! What could be more inviting than listening to the sounds of great Jazz Artists, cast out over The Hudson River, at sunset, for Free?! Sunday July 26th brings a truly unique and unusually talented individual. He toured with the Stan Kenton Band, and has the distinction of ...

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The Horse's Ha Tour for "Of The Cathmawr Yards," Plus Offer MP3 of Unreleased Slapp Happy Cover

Source: Pitch Perfect PR
July 6, 2009

THE HORSE'S HA PLAY FIRST OF SEVERAL MINI-TOURS FOR NEW ALBUM, OF THE CATHMAWR YARDS Plus offer mp3 of unreleased Slapp Happy cover. The Horse's Ha will be playing the first of several mini-tours this summer in support of their genre-bending debut album, Of The Cathmawr Yards, out now on Hidden Agenda. Featuring stellar performers from Chicago's rock and jazz communities; Freakwater and Eleventh Dream Day's Janet Beveridge Bean (vocals, melodica and mandola), The Zincs' James Elkington (vocals and acoustic ...

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Definition of Soul: Femme Fatale to Feature N'dambi

Source: All About Jazz
July 6, 2009

Definition of Soul: Femme Fatale features N'Dambi and a special performance by Choklate, hosted by Moma Sol with sounds by Chicago's Joe Kollege, Saturday July 11, 2009, The Jazz Cafe in the Detroit Music Hall, 350 Madison Avenue Detroit, MI 48226. Mosaicthump, in association with Urban Organic, is proud to bring the Definition of Soul Concert Series to Detroit's historic Jazz Cafe. Definition of Soul: Femme Fatale is so big, there was no way we could do it alone. Thanks ...

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