Performance / Tour News

The Voice is Dark and the Emphasis Mysterious

Source: Michael Ricci
June 26, 2009

A subdued Diana Krall held forth on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall, where she gave the first of two concerts on consecutive nights with a 41-piece orchestra, augmented by a jazz trio (Jeff Hamilton on drums, Robert Hurst on bass, and Anthony Wilson on guitar). The music, much of it from her recent bossa-nova flavored album, “Quiet Nights” (Verve), maintained an aura of hushed introspection with occasional blips of swing, when her sturdy jazz pianism came to the fore. When Ms. ...

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Fortune at Stake on Michael Jackson London Concerts

Source: Billboard Magazine
June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson's planned 50-show run at the O2 Arena in London would have been the highest-grossing single concert engagement. Now it's a major problem for the promoter AEG Live. More than $85 million worth of tickets have already been sold for the series of performances, which have the now sadly ironic title “This Is It." As much as $30 million has already been spent on production, according to sources close to the situation. So what's at stake for AEG, the ...

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Jump City Jazz Orchestra with Grant Stewart at Chris' Jazz Cafe on July 11, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
June 26, 2009

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The London Concerts: Michael's Missed Comeback

Source: All About Jazz
June 26, 2009

The organizers behind “This Is It," Michael Jackson's 50-concert residency at London's O2 Arena, billed it as a spectacle for the ages that would mark the return of the King of Pop following a 12-year hiatus.

But after Jackson's sudden death on June 25, the series, scheduled to open July 13, will probably be remembered as the most lavish musical comeback that never was.

AEG Live, the Los Angeles-based entertainment company behind the concerts, invested more than $20 million to ...

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Tim Garland at Catalina's in LA on Monday, June 29th

Source: All About Jazz
June 26, 2009

Following sell-out concerts in Rochester and Chicago, the Lighthouse Trio finish their mini-US tour in Los Angeles, California: Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio Monday, June 29th 8PM $15 Catalina Bar & Grill 6725 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046 Call: 323 466 2210 TIM GARLANDS LIGHTHOUSE TRIO Tim Garland is widely known as one of the UKs most successful musical exports ...

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Jazz Comes to Venice

Source: All About Jazz
June 26, 2009

Next month sees the start of the annual Venezia Jazz Festival, which runs until August 2nd. Beginning on July 27th, the event is a major must for jazz fans staying at Venice hotels over the summer. The festival is held at a number of venues including the Teatro La Fenice and Piazza San Marco and, as always, features a mix of established and new artists from the world of jazz music. As well as music concerts, there will be a ...

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Steven Pasquale - Star of TV's Rescue Me - Debuts at Feinstein's with the John Pizzarelli Quartet

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York” by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution” by The New York Post, continues its 10th Anniversary season with the debut of television and Broadway star STEVEN PASQUALE for one night only on Sunday, June 28. He will perform romantic jazz-tinged classics from his debut CD Somethin’ Like Love on PS Classics. In his first live performance of material from the album, he will be accompanied by ...

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Club D'Elf | 06.06.09 | Boston

Source: JamBase
June 23, 2009

By: Tim O'Keefe

Club d'Elf :: 06.06.09 :: Paradise Rock Club :: Boston, CA

Club d'Elf Sonorous notes emit from the stage at Boston's Paradise Rock Club. Its source, a Moroccan sintir, lies in the hands of Club d'Elf's bandleader, Mike Rivard. Animal skins stretch across the oblong-shaped, hollow cavity of this bass-like instrument, the neck, somewhat resembling a wooden stick, juts from the body and contains three ...

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