Performance / Tour News

Tonight! Dom Minasi and Michael Bisio at The 5C Jazz Cafe (NYC)

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
May 8, 2009

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Jazz and Global Music Mix: Conga Kings with Tiempo Libre and John Patitucci, Rufus Reid and Danilo Prez at the Kimmel Center, May 8 and 9

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
May 8, 2009

The Kimmel Centers final weekend of jazz concerts for the 2008-09 season includes Miami-based, Cuban-born and internationally renowned artists bringing their own flair of global rhythms to jazz.

Click on the name of the artist below for more information on each Kimmel Center performance:

Jazz Fridays culminates with Conga Kings and Tiempo Libre performing polyrhythmic Latin jazz with Afro-Cuban influences in Verizon Hall (Friday, May 8, 2009 at 8pm)

Jazz Up Close concludes with bassists John Patitucci and Rufus Reid ...

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Nigerian Legend King Sunny Ade's 2009 North American Tour

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
May 8, 2009

The Chairman's Diplomatic Tour of a New America: Nigerian Legend King Sunny Ade Brings the Forty Minute Jam to US/Canadian Stages and Festivals, June/July 2009

The shift from recorded to live music as the main driver of music commerce happened ten years earlier in Africa than in America. Nigerian juju icon King Sunny Ade who will tour throughout the US and Canada in June and July 2009 knows first-hand.

Stars of juju the Nigerian music that came out of palmwine ...

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Dave Allen Quartet at Tea Lounge (NYC) on May 12th

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

May 12th Tea Lounge with Mark Turner - sax Jeff Ballard - drums Chris Lightcap - bass Dave Allen - guitar/compositions 9pm - 12 837 Union St, Brooklyn $5 Cover “Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind--again and again." --All About Jazz “An exciting and unique player in the mold of ...

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Upcoming Jazz Shows at Chalkers Pub & Bistro, May 9-14

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

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Jack Sheldon Returns to Jax Tonight

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2009

Legendary Jack Sheldon returns to JAX in Glendale every Thursday night starting tonight, May 7th at 9:00pm. He will also be at Cafe 322 this Friday, at 8:00pm.

Please be there to welcome Jack back to the scene!!

The Jack Sheldon California Cool Quartet Thurs May 7 (and every Thursday) 9:00PM Jax 339 No. Brand Blvd. Glendale, CA 818/500-1604

The Jack Sheldon California Cool Quartet This ...

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Positive Catastrophe CD Release Concerts at Jazz Gallery May 8th and 9th

Source: Improvised Communications
May 7, 2009

On Friday, May 8th and Saturday, May 9th, Positive Catastrophe will celebrate the release of its debut recording, Garabatos Volume One (Cuneiform Records), with a two-night stand at New York's Jazz Gallery.

The brainchild of cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum and multi- instrumentalist/composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado, this self-described trans-idiomatic little big band connects the musical dots between intergalactic jazz legend Sun Ra and iconic Latin Jazz innovator Eddie Palmieri.

Founded in 2007, the group brings together some of most adventurous jazz and ...

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Firehouse 12 to Present the Peter Brotzmann/Nasheet Waits Duo May 8th

Source: Improvised Communications
May 7, 2009

On Friday, May 8th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will present the duo of legendary German multi-instrumentalist Peter Brotzmann and acclaimed New York-based drummer Nasheet Waits. Part of Brotzmann's 12-stop spring tour of America, this two-set performance will feature all spontaneously improvised music blending the artists' diverse backgrounds and musical points of view.

Brotzmann is a self-taught musician and co-founder of the groundbreaking FMP label whose early work in the mid-1960’s helped build the foundation of the European free jazz scene. ...

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