Performance / Tour News

Jazz Los Angeles

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

Jazz Music in L.A.

Saturday

Pharoah Sanders Quartet @ Jazz Bakery 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City This saxophonist's 1960s musical forays with John Coltrane are the stuff of jazz legend--furious, creative innovation that led audiences to new and unfamiliar musical...

Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble @ Warner Grand Theatre 478 W. Sixth St., San Pedro The Grammy winner performs selections from his new album on piano with his jazz- ...

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Chicago Jazz Mission This Week, Is ...

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

True, it would be physically impossible to catch all 10 of the best jazz shows playing this weekend.

But that doesn't mean you can't try:

Ari Brown 9 p.m. Friday at the Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N. Broadway; $12; 773-878-5552. Leonine tenor saxophonists never have been in short supply in Chicago, which has given the world Von Freeman and Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin and Clifford Jordan, Eddie Harris and Ira Sullivan, and scores more. Ari ...

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Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr to Headline NY Concert

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are teaming up to headline a benefit concert in New York City.

The former Beatles will headline the Radio City Music Hall concert on April 4 for the David Lynch Foundation. Other performers joining the two superstars include Sheryl Crow, Eddie Vedder, Moby and Bettye LaVette.

Tickets go on sale on Monday at 11 a.m. through ticketmaster.com.

The David Lynch Foundation provides funds to teach students how to meditate so they can “change their ...

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Seattle Times - A Triple-Threat Treasure: Pianist, Singer and Composer Toshiko Akiyoshi

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 7, 2009

As a Japanese woman and bandleader, Toshiko Akiyoshi was obliged to be a pioneer of one kind or another. In her day, women in jazz were singers and little more, and they certainly were not Japanese. From the culture she was born to and the one she adopted, she gathered proverbs that even today she finds useful to remember. “The Japanese have a saying, ‘The nail that sticks out will be beaten down,’ ” said Akiyoshi, who is in Seattle ...

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Michel Legrand, the Pianist and Composer, is Making a Rare New York Appearance at Birdland.

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2009

Take Many Textures, Then Mix Together A 77-year-old child prodigy with bushy eyebrows and the heart of an adolescent swooning at his first exposure to Rachmaninoff: that describes the sensibility of Michel Legrand, the French jazz pianist and composer and multiple Oscar winner who is playing a rare New York engagement at Birdland, accompanied by a string quartet, harp, bass and drums.

This unwieldy mixture of classical, jazz and Hollywood is built around pianism that suggests a steep ...

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A Small Town "Point of Interest" (...Oh, and Some Gigs!...)

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

Bill McBirnie forthcoming Gigs; one with Ruben Diaz (young flamenco master's CD release), a couple with Louis Simao (a genuine local treasure) and one with Jazz Vespers (an out-of-town call) where I look forward to the perfect playing context for “What A Friend We Have In Jesus" (from Nature Boy) and “Stand Up For Jesus" (from Paco Paco);

SOME FORTHCOMING GIGS

Sun., Mar. 8th - 7:30 p.m. - Early Evening @ The Lula Lounge CD RELEASE - “Andalusian Flavor"

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Gunter Hampel Vibes-BCL-Flute & Haitian Vodou Percussions Poets Club Bowery -New York

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

GUNTER HAMPEL IN NEW YORK march 1-april 7th performance update upcoming live performances

march 1st 5 pm Hunter College -black box-Room HN 543 performing SOLO on vibes, bassclarinet, flute in VARIETY , free admission hunter college 68 str betw par and lexington, northside

march 13 6 pm Hunter College -lang theatre 4th floor -MOVING IMAGES by ruomi lee hampel + father&son performance + many acts from hunter college-free admission

march 17 th 1o pm bowery poets club ESP-disk presents:GUNTER HAMPEL ...

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New York's Finest every Wednesday at Creole Restaurant (NYC)

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

Every Wednesday Nite the Finest Musicians and Vocalists 8pm - Midnite $7.00 Music Cover HOUSE BAND Roy Bennett - Bass & Vocals Bevery Crosby - Vocals Mick Gaffney - Guitar B. Hanshaw-Smith - Vocals James Allen Smith - Keyboards Wally “Gator" Watson - Drums GORDON EDWARDS - Bass (Founder of Stuff) Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club 2167 Third Avenue (Corner 118th Street) 212-876-8838 ...

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