Performance / Tour News

Simon & Garfunkel Confirm Aussie Tour

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2009

Rock Daily reported last month on speculation that a Simon and Garfunkel tour would kick off in New Zealand, and today sources confirmed the duo will embark on a reunion trek of Australia and New Zealand.

According to Pollstar, so far a June 13th date has been booked at the Vector Arena in Auckland, followed by a June 17th show at Boondall, Australias Bisbane Entertainment Center, a pair of dates at Sydneys Acer Arena (the 20th and 21st), two gigs ...

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Sheldon Concert Hall Announces 2009-10 Season

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 6, 2009

In an article written for the Post-Dispatch by pop critic Kevin Johnson, the Sheldon Concert Hall has announced the schedule of performers for its various 2009-10 season series. As outlined in the story, the Sheldon's 2009-10 jazz series looks like this:Saturday, October 3: Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater in a tribute to Billie Holiday Saturday, November 7: Trumpeter Nicholas Payton Saturday, January 23, 2010: Pianist and singer Eliane EliasSaturday, April 10: Pianist Cyrus Chestnut plays the ...

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Seattle Times: Jazz Artists from Europe, U.S. Get Together in Spring Series

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 6, 2009

Spurred largely by the controversial 2005 book, Is Jazz Dead? by British writer Stuart Nicholson, the argument suggests that jazz is being advanced to a greater degree outside America — the country of its birth. However you come down on that issue, most everyone can agree that audiences are created by the debate itself. Some of that music will cross the shores to America this month in a series of four April concerts presented by Earshot Jazz. Its Spring Series ...

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Steve Coleman: A Master of Creative Musical Improvisation

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 6, 2009

In his classic 1973 book “The Anxiety of Influence," the prodigious literary critic Harold Bloom argues that great poets define themselves through an Oedipal struggle in which they misread the work of their predecessors to find their own distinctive voice. Maybe the collaborative nature of jazz serves as an antidote to anxiety, because the most creative improvisers embrace and build on their influences rather than symbolically killing them. And no jazz artist better embodies the way a powerful musical personality ...

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Aretha Franklin Will Play the Hollywood Bowl on June 26; First Time in 35 Years

Source: Michael Ricci
April 6, 2009

Opinions may have run the gamut on Aretha Franklin's performance at President Obama's inauguration -- not to mention her ginormous bow hat -- but we can all agree that 35 years is too long to wait for her to return to the Hollywood Bowl.

The Queen of Soul will play the amphitheater on June 26, the first time since 1974. She will be backed by her own band, including a string ensemble, for an evening of salt-of-the-earth soul songs rendered ...

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Review: Branford Marsalis at Jazz Alley

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 6, 2009

Perhaps the moment that said the most about saxophonist Branford Marsalis, whose quartet began a four-night run Thursday at Jazz Alley, was the moment he left the stage, disappeared and left the spotlight to his young drummer Justin Faulkner, who delivered an inspired, disciplined solo over the Thelonius Monk tune “Rhythm-a-Ning." Even among the unsuspecting in the audience, Faulkner looked surprisingly young, a suspicion confirmed when Marsalis announced Faulkner turned 18 that day. The addition to the group of Faulkner, ...

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A Classic Montreal Jazz Tribute to Elda of Claudios by Vocalist Jeri Brown

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2009

Announcing JERI BROWN and her MONTREAL JAZZ TRIO: A TRIBUTE to ELDA! to be held at Le Balcon, Friday April 17, 2009.

Internationally acclaimed jazz vocal artist, Jeri Brown and her Montreal Jazz Trio team up for a classic Old-Montreal style of jazz in dedication to the late Elda Louise Guglielmin (former owner of the legendary Claudios Jazz Club of Old Montreal).

The Jeri Brown and her Montreal Jazz Trio: A Tribute to Elda engagement will be held at the ...

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Armen Nalbandian Music Director for Poetry in Motion II

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2009

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