Performance / Tour News

Firehouse 12 to Present the Julian Lage Goup

Source: Improvised Communications
March 19, 2009

On Friday, March 20th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will launch its 2009 Spring Jazz Series with a two-set performance by the Julian Lage Group.

Led by Boston-based guitarist/composer Julian Lage, this ambitious young quintet will be on tour celebrating the March release of his debut recording, Sounding Point, on the storied jazz label, EmArcy Records.

The group also features Ben Roseth (alto and soprano saxophones), Aristides Rivas (cello), Jorge Roeder (bass) and Tupac Mantilla (drums and percussion).

Lage's long-awaited first ...

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Shows at Chalkers Pub & Bistro (Toronto) - March 19-25

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

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Danny Lerman to be Featured Artist on Chicago's New WNUA Sunday Show

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
March 19, 2009

Saxophonist Danny Lerman will be the featured Jazz artist on WNUA's new show Jazz, Chicago Style - Hosted by Brad Walseth and James Walker - on WNUA - 95.5 - heard on Sunday night- 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.

Meow Baby, the critically acclaimed current CD from Lerman, features jazz superstars such as Howard Hewitt, Fareed Hague, Hubert Laws, Bobby Lyle and Paul Jackson Jr.

Baby features songs written by Lerman with new songwriters such as Ron DeJesus, Fred Kron and ...

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You're Gonna Keep On Drinking? O.K., They'll Keep on Playing

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2009

Michael Blake Quartet with the bassist Ben Allison and the guitarist Steve Cardenas at City Winery in a series titled Wine & Jazz — A Great Pairing.

The saxophonist Michael Blake gamely addressed his audience between songs at City Winery on Tuesday night, though that exercise must have felt a little disheartening. Most of the club’s patrons were blithely impervious, engaged in tipsy conversation at their tables or near the bar. The room’s cavernous size and hard surfaces only amplified ...

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Playing Langston Hughes's Jazzy Verse

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2009

Among the challenges confronting any composer intent on setting to music Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, a set of poems completed by Langston Hughes in 1961, probably the most daunting is that Hughes already called the tunes.

His dazzling poems, by turns earnest, raffish and folksy, bulge with references to famous musicians and familiar sounds. Alongside verse set entirely in capital letters, Hughes provided detailed musical cues, some referring to specific songs or instruments, others pointing to general ...

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A Jazz Season Lineup with a Focus on Piano

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, plans to announce the organization’s 2009-10 season Wednesday with a lineup that includes a season-opening Rose Hall performance by Ornette Coleman and his band on Sept. 26; programs built around the work of Bill Evans, Mary Lou Williams, Fats Waller and Count Basie; and concerts with diverse themes, including 1960s soul-jazz and the Brazilian jazz composer Moacir Santos, who died in 2006.

The season, which will be outlined on jalc.org, ...

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Dan Auerbach | 03.13.09 | San Francisco

Source: JamBase
March 19, 2009

By: Jim Welte

Dan Auerbach :: 03.13.09 :: Bimbo's 365 Club :: San Francisco, CA

Dan Auerbach by Veronica Vaillancourt Anyone who's been to a Black Keys show knows the deal. The Akron, Ohio-based duo of guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney take the stage, nod politely to the crowd, and proceed to dispatch a sonic freight train straight at you, fiercely overwhelming your senses with dirty, ...

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Matisyahu vs. Dub Trio | 02.22 | NY

Source: JamBase
March 19, 2009

Words & Images by: Jesse Borrell

Matisyahu vs. Dub Trio :: 02.22.09 :: The Bell House :: Brooklyn, NY

Stu Brooks - Dub Trio | 02.22 :: Brooklyn “We talked about this concert for a bit with Matis. He always had it in the back of his mind to play with us and it just came about that were all in town at the same time. We've all been trying to make it happen for almost two years now," ...

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