Performance / Tour News

Bob Dylan Sets Tour with Nelson and Mellencamp

Source: JamBase
April 27, 2009

Bob Dylan Sets Tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp

Bob Dylan Along with fellow troubadour Willie Nelson, this summer The Bob Dylan Show will also feature John Mellencamp, marking just the second time in the past 24 years that these three performers have shared the concert stage.

bobdylan.com is happy to offer pre-sale tickets for all ballpark shows. At each venue, the gates will open 30 minutes early for holders of tickets purchased during the bobdylan.com pre-sale.

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Joe Lovano the Man Who Improvises with the Tenor Sax

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2009

SPONTANEOUS The saxophonist Joe Lovano in a performance earlier this month at Birdland in Manhattan.

LAST October, acting on a whim, the saxophonist Joe Lovano showed up uninvited at the trumpeter Wynton Marsaliss show at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill. Horn in hand, he came ready to play and play he did, adding an unexpected and welcome note to the evening.

On May 9, Mr. Lovano, 56, will return to the Paramount. While his appearance this time ...

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Larry Fuller: A Life Lived on the Side

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2009

A career in parentheses even at home in Manhattan.

A woman with a white lacquered hairdo and a black lacquered handbag was pursuing Larry Fuller through a crowded theater lobby after a recent show in New Hampshire. The gig was billed as an evening of cool jazz with John Pizzarelli, and Mr. Pizzarelli, the guitarist and singer, served as the main attraction, signing CDs for a line of fans.

But the lady in pursuit appeared more interested in the shy ...

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Mark Soskin at the Kitano Hotel NY

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2009

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The Five Peace Band, McLaughlin and Corea at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: Michael Ricci
April 25, 2009

Looking to the Present While Peeking at the Past, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett and Brian Blade.

The Five Peace Band, a jazz-rock juggernaut, presents a parody of abundance. Led by the guitarist John McLaughlin and the keyboardist Chick Corea both restless virtuosos, and legends at 67 the group works hard and fast, with heroic stamina and superhuman technique. Its overall effect can be exhilarating and exhausting. On Thursday, in its first of several sold-out nights at ...

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Lou Reed Performed with His Metal Machine Trio, at the Blender Theater at Gramercy

Source: Michael Ricci
April 25, 2009

All Those Sounds From the Stage: Processed, and Not Always Pretty

It was good to have this Lou Reed back: not an American Master nor a Legend of Rock, but a barking, brooding, beneficial irritant. On Thursday night at the Blender Theater at Gramercy, onstage between Sarth Calhoun and Ulrich Krieger, two much younger musicians, he was making noise improvised, loud, heavily processed, and some of it ugly enough to make people leave.

Not many, though. There were extra-musical reasons ...

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Mike Baggetta Quartet CD Release Concert at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2009

Come celebrate the release of Small Spaces - the debut recording from the Mike Baggetta Quartet - on Fresh Sound New Talent Records.

Copies of the CD will be available.

Mike Baggetta - Guitar Jason Rigby - Saxophone Eivind Opsvik - Bass George Schuller - Drums

Sunday April 26th 8.30pm @ Cornelia Street Cafe

Winner of the 2009 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards

As he demonstrates on his solid new ...

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Dorothy Masuka, Paulina Oduro, Wendell Richardson & Ray Carless + DJS

Source: Outerglobe
April 25, 2009

The legendary DOROTHY MASUKA is coming into her own.

She wrote the song that made Miriam Makeba, the no 1 hit 'Pata Pata' and Hugh Masekela's 'Khauleza' and she's Nelson Mandela's favourite musician. 'Auntie Dot' has a fabulous repertoire from township jazz to Afro classics with the occasional awesome acapella number thrown in.

PAULINA ODURO aka PRINCESS ADWOA is well known for her vocals with Alfred Bannerman and fronting many a fine African or Reggae Band. Paulina Oduro comes into ...

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