Performance / Tour News

Roy Eldridge Little Jazz Goes a Long Way

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2009

The sign outside the Metro-pole in New York City reads Dixieland. But if signs mean less to you than sounds, and you step inside, what you will hear is jazz. And if its Sunday afternoon or Monday or Tuesday night, it will be some of the best jazz, these or any days.

That is when a quintet led by two timeless masters of the art of jazz holds postgraduate seminars. The language they speak is informed by the past, which ...

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What is the BBC Head of Sport, Mihir Bose, Doing in a Music Performance at the Design Museum?

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2009

Composer/Pianist Lola Perrin was asked to create a music performance from the work of designer/artist and Puma Creative Director, Hussein Chalayan, who is currently on exhibition at the Design Museum.

She devised a concept to integrate the issues of cultural migration & displacement that inform Chalayan’s work into her compositional process and ran a questionnaire about family histories amongst 300 anonymous Londoners. The answers form a patchwork of tales reflecting the cultural diversity that is London; these tales, and work ...

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Reunite at Radio City

Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2009

Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed at the Change Begins Within concert on Saturday in New York.

Half a Beatles reunion, or some approximation of it, took place Saturday night at Change Begins Within, a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall for the David Lynch Foundation. Paul McCartney was headlining; Ringo Starr was also on the bill, and yes, after letting the anticipation build, the two surviving Beatles did perform together, as they did in 2002 for ...

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Manhattan Club Sounds

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2009

Jazz Listings New York

RALPH ALESSI AND THIS AGAINST THAT Tony Malaby on tenor and soprano saxophones, Andy Milne on piano, John Hebert on bass and Mark Ferber on drums. (Wednesday and Thursday) At 9 and 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; cover,

TIM ARMACOST QUARTET Pianist, Bruce Barth, and drummer, Billy Hart. (Friday and ...

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Southland Jazzeries

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2009

Jazz Los Angeles

Arturo Sandoval: Mambo Mania! Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive, L.A. Cuban Jazz legend Arturo Sandoval performs his blend of Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop and classical concertos.

The Bird & the Bee Echoplex 1154 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles Inara George and Greg Kurstin's wry and effervescent electro-jazz project never fails to charm. Apr 06, 2009 08:00PM

Gallery Bar’s ...

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Bill Frisell's Disfarmer Project at Skirball Center

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2009

Long known for merging rustic Americana with atmospheric jazz, Bill Frisell brought to the Skirball Center on Thursday night.

His new Disfarmer Project, a suite of as-yet- untitled compositions intended for a future CD release that are inspired by the American photographer known as Disfarmer.

An eccentric, reclusive man, Disfarmer, born Mike Meyers, became an outsider art figure revered for his stark Depression-era portraits of farmers and families around Heber Springs, Ark. The odd details surrounding his life seem pulled ...

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Clarinetist David Krakauer's Klezmer All Star Bash at Carnegie Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2009

The Wild and Woolly Music of the Shtetl, in All Its Infinite Variety.

The clarinetist David Krakauer, the artistic director of Klezmer All-Star Bash at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, taking the stage to play a number with the Klezmatics, one of the evenings acts.

What comes after a revival? Thats the question that a generation of klezmer-loving, mostly Jewish musicians has been exploring for the last few decades, not least at Klezmer All-Star Bash, a concert on Thursday night at ...

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The Slack-Key Guitarist Makana, One Mans New Take On an Old Tradition

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2009

Half a dozen songs into his show at the Sage Theater in Times Square on Thursday night, Makana paused for reflection. Somehow, he said, not being of Hawaiian ancestry allowed me to really embrace the artistic side of the culture.

The line felt sincere but well worn; its air of self-reassurance suggested a talisman on a key chain. It also raised the meaningful prospect that Makana, whose birth name is Matt Swalinkavich, came to his music as an outsider.

The ...

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