Performance / Tour News

Peter King and Liane Carroll at Dizzy's - Made in the UK Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 7, 2009

Monday night at Dizzy's at Jazz at the Lincoln Center sees the launch of the Made in the UK jazz concert series, with shows by legendary British saxophonist Peter King (7.30pm) and award-winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll and her trio (9.30pm).

For nearly forty years saxophonist Peter King has been internationally recognised as Europe's leading Parker-disciple. His virtuosity as a bebop player led him to play in small groups alongside Bud Powell, Max Roach and Milt Jackson and with the big ...

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Cape May Dixieland Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 7, 2009

Cape May Traditional Jazz Society Presents Dixieland Jazz

When - Sunday June 14, 2009 from 2 to 4 pm

Where VFW Post 386 419 Congress St. Cape May, NJ 609-884-7961

Rhythm Kings Jerry Rife clarinet, Danny Tobias cornet, Peter Reichlin trombone, Pat Mercuri banjo, Ed Wise bass + drums playing great Traditional Dixieland Jazz.

Ticket charge - $10 advance purchase 609-884-7961 $15 at door everyone is welcome $10 CMTJS member ...

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Debbie Reynolds Still Here, a 1950s Sweetheart Shows Her Dark Side

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2009

How could a star with a 60-year show business career and a personal life that has made headlines not take away from the experience a profound sense of the absurd?

As Debbie Reynolds, 77, speed-rapped, did celebrity impersonations and sang (sort of) at Wednesdays opening-night performance of Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy at the Caf Carlyle, you had the sense of a performer who gave up trying to make sense of it all ages ago. Why bother, ...

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Hot Tuna in Jamaica

Source: JamBase
June 6, 2009

Hot Tuna Celebrates 50 years of friendship in Jamaica December 10-14

Hot Tuna Hot Tuna have recently announced that they will be playing this December in Jamaica. The band will summon the spirits of their deceased old rock star friends and celebrate the anniversary of the festival that started it all - Woodstock.

Hot Tuna is Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. Both from Washington, D.C., the two musicians have been playing together since grade school, long before their days in ...

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Chicago Afrobeat Tour

Source: JamBase
June 6, 2009

Chicago Afrobeat Project Announces 2009 Summer Tour

Chicago Afrobeat Project Fresh from winning the “Best African Artist" award in the 2009 Chicago Music Awards, Chicago Afrobeat Project hits the road this summer crossing the U.S. from the West Coast to the Southeast. Known for its blazing live shows, the band blends pulsating funk, aggressive jazz, and rock energy into an explosive stage performance that is classified as unmistakably “American Afrobeat." The group is at the forefront of the Afrobeat revival ...

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Cosmopolitan Jazz with a Literary Accent

Source: Michael Ricci
June 6, 2009

Stacey Kent, fresh from a tour of 27 countries, was in an exultant mood on Thursday evening at Birdland. Her latest album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram (Blue Note/EMI), has enjoyed the kind of commercial success in Europe that Diana Krall’s records achieve in the United States; it also earned her a Grammy nomination for best jazz vocal album. In March she received the National Order of Arts and Letters decoration from the French culture minister.

But more significant, Breakfast, ...

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Easy Star All-Stars | 05.15 | Cambridge

Source: JamBase
June 6, 2009

Words by: Andrew Bruss | Images by: Steve Klise

Easy Star All-Stars :: 05.15.09 :: Middle East Downstairs :: Cambridge, MA

Easy Star All-Stars :: 05.15 :: Boston With reggae adaptations of an array of tunes from Pink Floyd, Radiohead and The Beatles, the Easy Star All-Stars managed to keep a sold-out crowd at Middle East Downstairs singing and dancing their hearts out for two straight hours.

The ...

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Sten Hostfalt Quartet Live at Puppets NYC June 12

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

Celbrating three decades in creative music and 20 years since first contributing to the East Coast U.S. and New York City Jazz scene, alongside legendary Icons of Jazz Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, Joe Maneria and Clare Fischer. And as a member of Guillermo Klein's pioneering ensemble live during the inception of Smalls Jazz Club. Acclaimed guitar virtuoso, composer and bandleader Sten Hostfalt appear live in concert with his QUARTET at Puppets Jazz Bar NYC, Friday JUNE 12, 6 pm-8.30pm (3 ...

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