Performance / Tour News

Reminder: The Michele Richardson Band July 4, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2009

...is doing a fundraiser SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2009, 5:00 - 8:00pm .. entitled “The All American Music Show".

The Michele Richardson Band will be doing jazz & blues .. following us is the River Lights Barbershop Group from our area who have won international acclaim! About 30 women with killer harmonies .. come on out and enjoy the show in the very clean and very cool (in many ways) brand new world-class auditorium!!

We're gonna have fun! See ...

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Sten Hostfalt Quartet at Spike Hill NYC July 6

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2009

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"Birdland, the Jazz Corner of the World" - - Charlie Parker

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2009

BIRDLAND JULY SCHEDULE

LEW TABACKIN & TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI QUARTET Wednesday-Saturday, July 1-4 @ 8:30 & 11pm Music Charges: $30, general seating; $40, premium seating

Lew Tabackin is one of the few jazz musicians who maintains a dual musical personality. As a tenor saxophonist, he is a hard-driving, tough-toned player reminiscent of Sonny Rollins or Don Byas. But as a flutist, he can also sound like a highly expressive master of Asian classical music. Lew moved to ...

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John Fogerty at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2009

Former Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty stops the rain and brings the firepower to L.A. this Fourth of July.

The swamp rocker plays a three-day stand at the Hollywood Bowl (7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday) capped by a fireworks extravaganza each evening.

Need a little more sparkle in your life?

The nighttime sky shall not be dimmed even by a lousy economy. From Artesia to Yorba Linda, there are dozens of fireworks displays exploding in celebration of Independence Day ...

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Barbershop Harmony's Youth Movement

Source: Michael Ricci
July 2, 2009

Mention barbershop quartets and youre bound to conjure images of men in striped vests and bowlers belting in unison about their high-school sweethearts who are invariably named Adelaide or Rose.

Old stereotypes die hard but even the most stubborn of them fade away eventually. In fact, if you look hard enough, you can make out a smattering of young, smooth-faced barbershoppers in designer threads taking their place among the crowd of silver-haired crooners.

Though it is one of the most ...

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Frank Kimbrough Trio with Paul Motian and Jay Anderson

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2009

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Somi: Live at Joe's Pub in New York City!

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2009

Fast rising East African vocalist Somi will perform at Joe's Pub in New York City on July 9th, 2009 at 7:30PM.

Originally from Rwanda and Uganda, Somi has made West Harlem her home over the past five years. Her critically acclaimed album Red Soil In My Eyes (Harmonia Mundi, 2007) maintained a spot in the top 10 world music charts for several weeks after its release while she performed to audiences across four continents. She has since worked with or ...

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Tony Bennett Never Left Astoria Behind

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2009

Tony Bennett sings about leaving his heart in San Francisco. But when he talks, it seems to have remained in Astoria, the western Queens neighborhood where he grew up.

“The finest place to live", Mr. Bennett, 82, said as he showed a reporter his favorite haunts. “Ive been all over the world Paris and Florence and Capri and yet I come back here and I like this better than any place Ive ever lived."

Mr. Bennett lives on West 57th ...

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