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Fleetwood Mac at Anaheim's Honda Center

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2009

The band, still potent although a bit weather-worn and missing Christine McVie, revisits 'Rumours' and 'Tusk' during a sprawling show.

Fleetwood Mac, the American-British powerhouse behind one of the bestselling albums of all time, is rock's greatest example of the good gained from ignoring every bit of sage advice known to humans about love and relationships.

But thank the dysfunctional heavens they did: The Mac has emerged some 30 years later as a weather-worn but still gripping outfit, currently touring ...

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Lea Delaria to Perform in Belleville on Saturday, June 20

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 25, 2009

Singer, actress and comic Lea DeLaria, a native of Belleville, IL, will return to her hometown on Saturday, June 20 to perform for the Metro East Pride festival. DeLaria started her show business career as a stand-up comic, and has gone on to utilize her acting and singing talents in cabaret, Broadway, one-woman shows, and jazz clubs. In a review of a DeLaria performance last October at the NYC jazz club Smoke, Stephen Holden of the New York ...

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Live on the Levee Once Again Snubs Jazz and Blues

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 25, 2009

The lineup of free concerts for the 2009 Fair St. Louis and Live on the Levee series has been announced by presenting organization Celebrate St. Louis, and once again, our town's indigenous musical forms of jazz and blues have been snubbed. To be fair, the organizers did make some small progress this year in diversifying the lineup. Booking seminal alt-rockers Sonic Youth, who will appear on July 17, demonstrates a certain degree of risk-taking mostly unseen in recent ...

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Sheldon Concert Hall Producing Concerts in Downtown St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 25, 2009

Continuing its recent trend of producing concerts in other locations, the Sheldon Concert Hall organization is sponsoring two different concert series this summer: a set of free Thursday afternoon outdoor performances in downtown St. Louis during June, and a series of concerts at the historic Orris Theatre in Ste. Genevieve, MO. The downtown St. Louis series will take place starting at 5:30 p.m. for four consecutive Thursdays at the Old Post Office Plaza at 801 Locust between 8th ...

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David Benoit: All That Jazz and More

Source: Michael Ricci
May 24, 2009

He combines his musical and personal interests as the music director of the Asia America Symphony Orchestra. It was not the kind of thing that happened to him very often -- at least not back then.

Three decades ago, David Benoit was a Los Angeles jazz pianist in his 20s, with two albums on a small label. He played birthdays, bar mitzvahs and small nightclubs as he struggled to make a living.

But when he was invited to the Philippines ...

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Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Reni Thomas at Durham County (NC) Library's Summer Jazz Jam

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2009

By Larry Reni Thomas

Durham County Library presents SUMMER JAZZ JAM, Sunday, June 28, 2009, 2-6 pm, at the East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Lane, Durham, North Carolina. The event, “Express Yourself at The Library," will celebrate summer reading and will include a jazz jam session led by guitarist Scott Sawyer, vocalist Bobby Hinton, drummer Peter Joyner, bassist Freeman Ledbetter, keyboardist Bob Baldwin and reedman Stanley Baird. Young musicians, Tyler Montgomery and Alan Thompson are also scheduled to perform. ...

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The Marcus Roberts Trio at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2009

The Marcus Roberts Trio with Roland Guerin on bass and Jason Marsalis on drums will perform a six-night run at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center July 21 through the July 26. Roberts and company have a long association with Jazz at Lincoln Center and with Wynton Marsalis, dating back to Roberts' joining Marsalis' band in 1985. The Marcus Roberts Trio has spent over a decade together, a relationship perfected on the new J Master Records album 'New ...

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Uptown Trio on the Move

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
May 23, 2009

A few days short of a year ago, I told you about four 19-year-old musicians worth keeping an ear on. Three of them were the Uptown Trio, who appeared in concert supporting the gifted alto saxophonist Logan Strosahl. I wrote:

Anyone keeping a future file would do well to add those names. If these players keep developing at their current pace and intensity, it is likely that we'll be hearing from them.

I remarked in the review that pianist Sam ...

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