Performance / Tour News

Jazz by the Riverside with Chip Crawford & Eve Cornelious

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2009

As New York's JVC Jazz Festival, the major jazz festival, closes for the first time in 37 years, Riverside offers an alternative venue for jazz this June. Jazz by the Riverside is one way to enjoy jazz live and in person this summer. This Friday night series of concerts is not to be missed... All performances begin @ 7:30 p.m. Join us Friday Night, JUNE 19 at the Riverside Church for a night of jazz with Chip Cornelious & Eve ...

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Jazz by the Riverside with Grady Tate

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2009

As New York's JVC Jazz Festival, the major jazz festival, closes for the first time in 37 years, Riverside offers an alternative venue for jazz this June. Jazz by the Riverside is one way to enjoy jazz live and in person this summer. This Friday night series of concerts is not to be missed... All performances begin @ 7:30 p.m. Join us Friday Night, JUNE 12 at the Riverside Church for a night of jazz with Grady Tate. Grady Tate ...

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Nashville-Based Jazz Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist Suzahn Fiering European Tour

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2009

About Jazz Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist Suzahn Fiering Suzahn Fiering’s music is an elegant entre into a romantic world of dazzling virtuosity with smoky-smooth vocals, impressive guitar work, masterful scatting, critically acclaimed originals and unique interpretations of jazz standards. The listener is transported to a place with blue martini’s, clinking wine glasses, well-dressed patrons and a cozy sepia-toned atmosphere. Suzahn delivers all this intertwined with tidbits of jazz history and lots of humor. Suzahn, who hails from New York City, has ...

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Handling Sneaky Rhythms as Singer or Bandleader

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2009

Gretchen Parlato became a presence in New York jazz five years ago, around the time she won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition. At the time she seemed to work best in collaboration: she played often with the guitarist Lionel Loueke in performances that nearly merged their sensibilities, and she turned up for a song on other people’s records — Terence Blanchard, Esperanza Spalding, Kenny Barron, Mr. Loueke. There was always some warm egolessness in her performances: for sure, ...

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Lakers Also Have Players in the Stands

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2009

High above the court at Staples Center, the Lakers pep band performs. The ensemble has been playing at home games since 1979, when Lakers owner Jerry Buss decided he wanted live music in the stands.

The team's pep band -- an offshoot of the USC marching band -- has been around longer than Kobe and Phil. Before, the musicians used lung power to be heard. Now they get an assist from loudspeakers.

Bassist Geo Valle has played more sold-out shows ...

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At 22 and 88, Sharing Admiration and a Bill in Tarrytown

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2009

AT first blush, the pianists Eldar Djangirov and Dave Brubeck could hardly seem less alike. Mr. Djangirov, 22, who is known professionally by his first name, is just finding a voice to match his dazzling dexterity at the keyboard and pop-star appeal. Mr. Brubeck, 88, long ago saw his experiments become part of the jazz lexicon. But the pianists share musical sensibilities, some personal history and an admiration for each other’s work. On June 13, for the second time in ...

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In Downturn, Finding a New Spot for Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2009

NYACK has a decades-long tradition of jazz jam sessions. So when Riverspace, a cultural center on Main Street, canceled its jams after 2 ½ years recently, it wasn’t long before the pianist Richard Sussman, who helped run the sessions, found a new home for them directly across the street — at Olive’s. While Olive’s has presented music for 29 years, its jazz offerings hit a high point in the late 1980s, when the celebrated big-band drummer Mel Lewis led a ...

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Gary Burton Quartet at the Keswick Theatre on June 24, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
June 7, 2009

Jazz innovators vibraphonist Gary Burton and guitarist Pat Metheny reunite in an exclusive area concert by the GARY BURTON QUARTET: REVISITED at the Keswick Theatre, Wed., June 24 @ 8 PM.

The QUARTET, which also features original member/bassist Steve Swallow plus one of the most prominent drummers of his generation, Antonio Sanchez, released Quartet Live! May 26 on Concord Records. The album is a collection of eleven hit compositions by Chick Corea, Metheny, Carla Bley, Keith Jarrett, Swallow and Duke ...

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