Performance / Tour News

Dave Douglas 3 at Bucks County Community College

Source: All About Jazz
April 17, 2009

Modern jazz trumpet master Dave Douglas performs at Bucks County Community College Wednesday April 22, 7:00pm with his new trio featuring Donny McCaslin on saxophone and Marcus Rojas on tuba. Recognized as one of the most important and original American musicians of the last decade, two-time Grammy nominated Dave Douglas is an acclaimed trumpeter, composer and jazz artist of the year.

Wednesday April 22, 7:00pm Bucks County Community College Newtown, Pa. 18940 Music and ...

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The Blue Note 7 Finding New Facets in a Treasury of Old Diamonds

Source: Michael Ricci
April 16, 2009

The Blue Note 7, appearing through Sunday night at Birdland, upholds an extremely clear agenda with crisp results.

Assembled as a tie-in to the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the group has an album, Mosaic, featuring new versions of classic tunes from the labels catalog. And this weeks run concludes a tour that began at the start of this year, hitting 50 cities across the country. Theres reason to trust that the ensemble a coalition of bandleaders, almost to ...

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Paradox Trio @ Nublu (78 RPM Balkan Jazz & Psychobilly)

Source: All About Jazz
April 16, 2009

Paradox Trio creates original music inspired by Eastern European, Gypsy and downtown NY traditions cutting across stylistic and geographic boundaries such as Bulgarian kaval music, Klezmer and improv jazz.

The band will play tunes from their new US release Gambit that further explores the Balkan, Gypsy and jazz marriage. The album features kaval player Theodosii Spassov on record, who is known for leaving audiences in awe of his technical wizardry, his unique and passionate style and for extending the sonic ...

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Sten Hostfalt Quartet Live at Puppets Jazz NYC

Source: All About Jazz
April 16, 2009

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Howard Fishman's Biting Fish Brass Band @ Nublu

Source: All About Jazz
April 16, 2009

The Biting Fish Brass Band features Downtown favorite Howard Fishman fronting a New Orleans-style brass band and performing an eclectic, funky repertoire that careens from street-beat style traditional gospel to surprising covers to Fishman's own quirkly, fun originals.

A former New Orleans resident, Fishman brings his deep affection for Louisiana music to bear, with references to classic R&B stylists Smiley Lewis and Professor Longhair, jazz legends Danny Barker and Jelly Roll Morton, and even explores some of the region's rural ...

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Birdland Jazz Club Announces May 2009 Schedule

Source: O&M Co.
April 15, 2009

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB ANNOUNCES MAY 2009 SCHEDULE

KARRIN ALLYSON, CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, THE LEADING MEN IV, JULIE HALSTON, DAVID MURRAY QUARTET, HEATH BROTHERS QUARTET, NICHOLAS PAYTON, PHAROAH SANDERS, THE MUSIC OF DUKE ELLINGTON w/ The David Berger Jazz Orchestra, CHICO OFARRILLS AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA, CAST PARTY, & MORE!

Birdland (315 West 44th Street between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of May. A detailed schedule follows:

Karrin Allyson ...

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Neko Case at the Nokia on Alert and Ready for Trouble

Source: Michael Ricci
April 15, 2009

When Neko Case sings with full concentration, she often braces herself, as if for impact. Feet planted wide, knees slightly bent, she leans into a posture of preparedness.

Her arms hang at her sides, but not idly; she forms her hands almost into fists. She doesnt sway or shift. Her only movements occur from the shoulders up, as she measures the weight and potency of a drawn-out vowel, adjusting her nearness to the microphone.

Ms. Case assumed this coiled stance ...

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The Music Melds Mexican and South American Traits with Ongoing European Trends

Source: Michael Ricci
April 15, 2009

Reporting from Los Angeles and Mexico City -- Growing up in a middle-class home in Mexico City's genteel Coyoacn neighborhood, Camilo Lara watched MTV and listened to the Happy Mondays and the Charlatans, “in my room, very loud."

But whenever he drifted into his family's communal living spaces or the kitchen, he'd get a shot of Jos Jos, classical music, cumbia (which the family's cook favored) or “some crappy Mexican pop."

“I respect cumbia and salsa as much as the ...

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