Performance / Tour News

Violinist Billy Bang and Bassist William Parker at the Rubin Museum 5/8/09

Source: Two for the Show Media
April 30, 2009

Violinist Billy Bang and bassist William Parker will be performing together in concert at The Rubin Museum in NYC on May 8th, 2009 at 7:00PM as part of the 2009 Winter/Spring Harlem in the Himalayas Series. Billy Bang - Violin William Parker - Bass Billy Bang & William Parker Rubin Museum of Art -150 West 17th Street New York, NY 10011 For Info Call: 212-620-5000 May 8th, 2009– Showtime- 7:00 ...

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Hilario Duran and Friends at Town Hall (Seattle)

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 30, 2009

Hilario Duran and Friends, Featuring the Duran/Schloss/Mitri Trio and Charanga Danzon Friday, May 8, 2009 at 8 p.m. Town Hall Seattle All ages welcome. Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets. A rare opportunity to see Cuban virtuoso Hilario Duran in concert with the Duran/Schloss/Mitri Trio and Seattle s own Cuban music ensemble Charanga Danzon at Town Hall Seattle. Once the pianist, composer and arranger with Arturo Sandoval s band in Cuba (1981-1990), Hilario Duran is now ...

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Bulgarian Bulgarian Virtuosos Tour US: Theodosii Spassov, Tatiana Sarbinska and Folk Project Band

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

Legendary Bulgarian kaval (wooden flute) player Theodosii Spassov is currently touring the USA, offering jazz fans a unique twist on traditional jazz mixed with Bulgarian folklore music. According to Newsweek, Grammy award winning Theodosii “has actually invented a new genre", synthesizing traditional folklore with jazz, fusion and classical music. The Chicago Tribune compares this show to “...a jam between Ian Anderson and Thelonius Monk". Joining Theodosii on his tour is his band of four accomplished musicians and Tatiana Sarbinska - ...

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Sinan Bakir Trio CD Release Party at Szechuan Tokyo - Tonight!

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:30 pm NO COVER - $10 Minimum THE SINAN BAKIR TRIO Szechuan Tokyo Restaurant 1245 New Britain Avenue West Hartford, CT 06110 860-561-0180

The sound that Sinan is striving for described often as fresh, clean and lively yet intense and full with emotion. Sinan Bakir is hailed not only as a virtuoso player, but also a masterful composer. His album ...

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Firehouse 12 to Present the Michael Attias Quintet May 1st

Source: Improvised Communications
April 30, 2009

On Friday, May 1st, New York-based saxophonist/composer Michael Attias will make his Firehouse 12 debut as part of the venue's ongoing 2009 Spring Jazz Series. Fresh off a two-week stint performing his original live electronic score for the Yale Repertory Theater's production of Dostoevsky's “Notes From The Underground" in late March and early April, Attias will return to New Haven with his new quintet. The group expands his longtime trio, Renku, featuring bassist John Hbert and drummer/percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, to ...

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Barbican Celebrates Moondog

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

September 8th 2009 will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Moondog, the blind American musician who for years was a familiar figure on the streets of New York. Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Hardin, born 1916. From the late 1940s until the 1970s he performed on the streets of New York. Famously, he wore a Viking costume which made him one of the most photographed and familiar urban figures of the period. During his time on the ...

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Daisy Jopling Classical Rock Violinist Live at Beanrunner Cafe

Source: PublicEye
April 29, 2009

Classical Rock Violinist Daisy Jopling Live at the BEANRUNNER CAF Saturday, May 9th 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.

Peekskill, NY, April 13, 2009: Classical Rock Violinist Daisy Jopling, praised by Time Out New York as a “Sublimely gifted musician" will perform at the BeanRunner Caf on Saturday, May 9th at 8:00PM. Admission is $10 pp. Seating is limited. To reserve seating, call the BeanRunner Caf at (914) 737-1701. The BeanRunner Caf is located at 201 S Division ...

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The Thing: The Great Scandinavian Power Trio US/Canadian Tour - May 2009

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2009

By Lloyd Peterson Only once in a great while does a group of musicians come along with an inherent discipline that dares to question the realm between the known and the unknown. Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love of the Scandinavian Power Trio, “The Thing," provide a language so determined in its musical complexity, boundaries literally and figuratively disappear. This doesn't mean that these brilliant musicians do not respect what came before them, far from it. What it means ...

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