Performance / Tour News

Calmer FT. Sten Hostfalt Live @ Public Assembly NYC April 14

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2009

Jazz Guitarist Sten Hostfalt is featured live in concert on electric bass guitar with Electronica & Drum 'N Bass act Calmer aka Collin Palmer (laptop, drums, compositions).

As a part of Machine Drum's (Travis Stewart) CD Release party at Public Assembly (front room) Brooklyn N Y C Tuesday APRIL 14 at 10pm. Tickets $10 / or $5 w. RSVP

Also appearing live : Jesse Boykins III, Addiquit, Cubic Zirconia and Body Language + DJ's Alex English, Throwy, Team Rojas

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McCoy Tyner Trio with Ravi Coltrane at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 15-16

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2009

McCoy Tyner Trio With Special Guest Ravi Coltrane The Allen Room New York, NY May 15-16, 2009 Jazz at Lincoln Center brings in four-time GRAMMY winner, McCoy Tyner and his trio of Gerald Cannon (bass) and Eric Kamau Gravatt (drums). Tyner is joined by a special guest, the groundbreaking and compelling saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. McCoy Tyner was at the core of what became one of the most seminal groups in jazz history, ...

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Australian Pianist Barney McAll Rhythmic Textures at the Jazz Standard

Source: Michael Ricci
April 10, 2009

Rhythmic Textures Woven and Stretched With Passion. The Australian pianist Barney McAll has lived in New York for a dozen years, exploring a crossroads of jazz and funk and scoring music for film and television.

His profile as a bandleader, while still modest, has gradually gathered steam. At the Jazz Standard on Wednesday, he drew a crowd for both sets, making the evening a productive if imperfect showcase for his own contemporary designs.

Mr. McAll was celebrating the ...

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New Mastersounds: Tour w/ Logic

Source: JamBase
April 10, 2009

The New Mastersounds To Tour The South with DJ Logic and Moon Taxi

The New Mastersounds Coming off of a successful west coast run supporting the March 10 release of their new album Plug & Play, The New Mastersounds are pleased to announce an east coast album release tour.

The New Mastersounds will kick off their tour in Asheville, NC making their way south for a headlining show at House of Blues in New Orleans during the second weekend of ...

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Leonard Cohen Comes to the Nokia

Source: Michael Ricci
April 10, 2009

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Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum to Play Ameristar's Bottleneck Blues Bar on July 30

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 10, 2009

Saxophonists Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum (pictured) will bring their “Sax for Stax" tour to the St. Louis area for a show on Thursday, July 30 at Ameristar Casino St. Charles' Bottleneck Blues Bar.The tour is named after Albright's 2008 CD in which the Memphis native paid tribute to his hometown with instrumental versions of tunes associated with Stax Records, the Memphis-based label that was home to Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor, the Staple Singers, and ...

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Icons Among Us: Jazz Doc/Tour

Source: JamBase
April 10, 2009

ICONS AMONG US: JAZZ IN THE PRESENT TENSE: FOUR-PART JAZZ DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES CONTEMPORARY JAZZ LUMINARIES THE DOCTUMENTARY CHANNEL EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE OF ALL FOUR EPISODES BEGINS APRIL 20 EPISODE ONE PREMIERES APRIL 15 AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER TOUR WITH SOULIVE, RUSSELL GUNN & DAKAH HIP HOP ORCHESTRA STARTS APRIL 19

Herbie Hancock Paradigm Studio partners with Don Q Rum in association with Rums of Puerto Rico to present Icons Among Us: Jazz ...

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A Trio Turns Back to Making Jazz, Not Firewood

Source: Michael Ricci
April 10, 2009

The group Fly, which is playing at the Jazz Standard this weekend: Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier were in Europe last fall, on tour with the Brad Mehldau Trio, when they got the horrific news.

Mark Turner, their partner in the dynamic post-bop band Fly, had sliced through two fingers of his left hand with a power saw while cutting firewood, severing nerves and tendons. Though typically low-key about his injury at the time I had an accident, he wrote ...

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