Performance / Tour News

Electric Daisy: STS9, Thievery

Source: JamBase
June 5, 2009

ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP ADDITIONS WITH: THIEVERY CORPORATION, GROOVE ARMADA, THE CRYSTAL METHOD, STS9, SHINY TOY GUNS AND MORE FRIDAY, JUNE 26 & SATURDAY, JUNE 27 AT MEMORIAL COLISEUM & EXPOSITION PARK IN LOS ANGELES

STS9 With summer just around the corner, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) is turning up the heat by adding a handful of high-profile acts to an already scorching lineup. Southern California's premier electronic music experience for over a decade - set ...

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Berklee Band la Timbistica Plays 32nd Freihofer's Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

La Timbistica will be performing at the 32nd Freihofer's Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY, an annual event featuring 20 hours of live jazz on two stages over two days. The group, comprised of some of the brightest scholarship talent from Berklee College of Music, will share the Gazebo Stage with Dred Scott Trio, Wallace Roney Quintet, and more. Artists appearing on the festival’s Main Stage that day include Patti LaBelle, SMV – Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten – ...

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Michele Rosewoman Performs New Cma-Commissioned Music at Vision Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

Michele Rosewoman performs with an expanded line-up of her ensemble Quintessence on June 14, 2009 at the Abrons Arts Center as part of this year's Vision Festival. For this performance, Quintessence premieres two new works funded by Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. In keeping with her latest release, The In Side Out (Advance Dance Disques), Michele augments Quintessence with special guests on trombone and guitar.

As Ms. Rosewoman and Quintessence achieve new textures and layers with ...

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Richard Bliwas at Plan B (NYC) on June 15th

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

Please join us Monday night June 15th at 8:00 for a great night of creative improvised music at Plan B located at 339 E. 10th st. (around the corner from Charlie Parker Place) featuring Ben Sher, Daniel Carter, Yuuki Koike, Richard Bliwas, Kazuo Nakamura + guest artists. Admission is $5. Drink specials: $4 pints, $6 mojitos

The virtuoso pianists’ 6th CD just released on Rising Rose Records, Uncovered reflects the dissolving boundaries between jazz and other forms of ...

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The Turiya Mareya Latin Jazz Ensemble Live in Israel

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

Pianist Turiya Mareya will head a group of Israeli, Mexican and Italian artists in a summer tour of Israel. Starting in Tel Aviv at the Shablul Jazz Club and the popular Venue Levontin 7. the group will continue on to the Baraka Jazz Club in Beer Shiva and the Mizpte Ramon Jazz Club. The group will also appear at the Kol Hamusica Music Festival in Galilee. July 24th Shablul Jazz club July ...

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Bisco Inferno | 05.30.09 | Red Rocks

Source: JamBase
June 5, 2009

Word by: Jesse Borrell | Images by: Dave Vann

Bisco Inferno :: 05.30.09 :: Red Rocks Amphitheatre :: Morrison, CO

Bisco Inferno :: 05.30 :: Red Rocks From above, the view was vast. Off in the distance, faintly glistening cities acted as the only remnants of the existing outside world. Yet below, a manifestation of sorts was continuing to recreate itself in some dream-like experimental art form. The first annual “Bisco Inferno" was upon us, and our hosts, The ...

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Alex Wilson Boldly Goes Where No Salsero Has Gone Before

Source: All About Jazz
June 4, 2009

The UK's top latin piano man Alex Wilson and Aswad's legendary drummer Kenrick Rowe join forces.

Their sizzling six piece collaboration Uplifting Roots at Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, London, W1D 3RW from Wednesday 1 - Saturday 4 July.

Expect an inspired tropical fusion of flavas, bursting with Latin fireworks, vivid, soul splitting gospel vocals and heavy duty Jamaican reggae. This is Alex Wilson's music at its most intimate, a chance to let the music get into ...

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New Mastersounds Tour

Source: JamBase
June 3, 2009

New Mastersounds Summer Tour Wakarusa Music Festival, Bumbershoot Seattle Arts Festival, Ottawa Blues Festival

“Pass the peas and gimme some more! This is the kinda together yet deliciously loose (largely) instrument soul-jazz that turns a DJ's fingers black and sends him driving around the countryside to search backwater vinyl depots and rummage sales." (Dennis Cook, JamBase)

The New Mastersounds Check out The New Mastersounds as they tour throughout the Midwest and beyond. In addition to noteworthy stops including ...

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