Performance / Tour News

Last Night at the Beacon with the Allman Brothers

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2009

As the Allman Brothers Band get more comfortable in New York’s Beacon Theatre, their home for the rest of March, more friends are stopping by each night to jam.

Last night’s show upped the ante with living legend Buddy Guy, who led the band through a pair of blues standards before being joined onstage by Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell of Phish for first set-closer “Southbound.” Fresh off their highly successful reunion shows, Anastasio and McConnell later added their own ...

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A String Quartet That Can Easily Morph into a Jazz Band

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2009

On its Web site the Ebne Quartet has all the usual things, from a biography and a touring schedule to music clips and an estimable repertory list, as well as a link to The Other Ebne.

Click on it, and you will find recordings of the groups improvisations on jazz standards and a Bruce Springsteen song, and a YouTube clip showing this young Parisian string quartet tearing its way through Misirlou from Pulp Fiction.

The Ebne players had it both ...

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Raul Malo Sings Meltingly

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2009

Musical styles simmer together happily in the melting pot of this ex-Maverick's output.

In the midst of what essentially was a dance party Thursday night at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, singer Raul Malo set down the twangy guitar he'd been strumming joyfully for an hour, dismissed the members of his five-piece band -- except for pianist Chris Tuttle -- and stood practically motionless at the mike.

Malo is widely regarded as one of the most gifted singers ...

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Rickie Lee Jones@largo at the Cornet

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2009

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'The Jazz Age' at Blank Theatre

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2009

The Blank Theatre Company’s signature charms — quirky characters, witty sets and the deft use of music — are on full, if flawed, view in Allan Knee’s “The Jazz Age.”

This soapy but absorbing portrait of the Lost Generation’s F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway features a Tin Pan Alley score by a live three- piece band. From their perch on an upstage balcony, the droll Ian Whitcomb and His Bungalow Boys pluck period ditties as the literary ...

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Detroit May Be Battered, but the City is Inspiring Song

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2009

Detroit -- Sam Roberts and John Rich have found inspiration in all kinds of places during their years writing and performing music.

Recently the Canadian rocker and the country star happened upon the same muse -- a certain struggling Rust Belt metropolis.

The Sam Roberts Band's “Detroit '67" and Rich's “Shuttin' Detroit Down" each have caused a stir in the Motor City and represent the latest in a long line of songs that found musical inspiration in America's auto capital. ...

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Phil Woods Business-Casual Sax with Nonchalant Wit

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2009

The alto saxophonist Phil Woods wore his mastery with nonchalance at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Thursday night.

Leading his quintet, a working band with a wealth of accumulated knowledge, he kept a loosely efficient air: business casual, with equal emphasis on both words. There was wit and aplomb in his playing, and even an occasional flash of risk, as he willed himself away from comfort and clich.

Mr. Woods, 77, has decidedly earned the stature of an elder statesman, along ...

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Peter Eldridge at Birdland

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2009

Peter Eldridge performs at BIRDLAND with his band and very special guests Kate McGarry, Lauren Kinhan and Jo Lawry.

Previewing songs from his newest album entitled 'Mad Heaven', as well as new and old originals and arrangements.

One long set at 7 pm

Players - Keith Ganz on guitar, Tim Lefebvre on bass, Ben Wittman on drums, James Shipp on percussion and vibes, Peter Eldridge on piano and vocals.

Birdland 315 W 44th Street,between 8th and 9th avenues ...

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