Performance / Tour News

Andrew D’Angelo Fractured Free Jazz at Vanguard

Source: Michael Ricci
February 20, 2009

Andrew D’Angelo’s new band is called Gay Disco Trio, which sounds funny and is at first misleading. It makes lean, rickety explosions for saxophone, bass and drums: not exactly dance music.

Sometimes, in its gig on Wednesday night at the Tea Lounge in Park Slope, Brooklyn, it sounded a little like a scaled-down version of Prime Time, Ornette Coleman’s band from the 1980s, but with more aggression and tension and repetition.

It also sounded curious and thrill-seeking. If the name ...

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George Kahn at the Jazz Bakery on March 4th: Quartet Features Guitarist Pat Kelley

Source: Imaginary Friends
February 20, 2009

West Coast Jazz Pianist, George Kahn, will be appearing at The Jazz Bakery on Wednesday evening, March 4th with sets at 8:00 PM and 9:30 PM. Joining him on stage will be MB Gordy (drums), Karl Vincent (bass) and Pat Kelley (guitar).

Pat Kelley has recorded eight CD's as a leader, toured in more than thirty countries as a performer, worked as a Los Angeles studio guitarist on hundreds of sessions for records, television, commercials, and motion pictures, and composed ...

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Charlie Hunter: MP3/New Shows

Source: JamBase
February 20, 2009

WICKED GUITARIST EXPLORES DIFFERENT SETTINGS IN FEB/MAR SHOWS

Charlie Hunter Charlie Hunter and the trio consisting of Tony Mason and Erik Deutsch will be playing their final show together for a while at Sullivan Hall in New York on February 19. They will be joined by special guest Cochemea Gastellum on baritone sax. Cochemea, along with Eric Biondo (trumpet) and Eric Kalb (drums) will be joining Charlie later this month for shows in Colorado and Arizona.

Last month, Charlie played ...

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Simon and Garfunkel Considering Tour

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2009

Last week Simon and Garfunkel reunited for three songs at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Now the pair of singer-songwriters are talking about hitting the road.

“Our plan to work together is coming together,” Art Garfunkel told the BBC. “But it doesn’t go through England this time.” Paul Simon’s manager Jeff Kramer confirmed this in a statement to Rolling Stone: “Yes there have been conversations taking place, but nothing has been confirmed.”

The duo launched a highly successful reunion in 2003, ...

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Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola.

Source: Michael Ricci
February 19, 2009

Ann Hampton Callaway’s self-reinvention from a lachrymose piano-bar chanteuse into a jazz swinger progressed a step further on Tuesday evening at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, where she added a new pose to her arsenal of attitudinal stances: pugilistic bossiness.

Punching out “The Best Is Yet to Come,” that optimistic swinger by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, she bore down heavily on the phrase “Come the day you’re mine,” as if aggressively asserting her claim in a romantic gold rush.

“Comes ...

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Dave Matthews Summer Tour 2009

Source: JamBase
February 19, 2009

Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band will embark on an extensive North American tour in late May with dates planned through early October. Tour stops include several new venues with long awaited returns to many others as DMB tours in support of their yet-to-be titled next studio album, slated for release by RCA records on June 2nd. Plans are currently being finalized for the European tour from late June through early July with more dates to be announced next week.

Joining ...

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Seattle Times: A Russian Jazz-Classical Fusion at Benaroya Hall

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 19, 2009

Although he was born and raised in the former Soviet Union, Igor Butman’s life was destined to have an American flavor to it. His father was, of all things, a drummer in a Dixieland jazz band, the best in all of Leningrad. The opportunities to listen to and play jazz were few, but the young Butman found them. He studied the clarinet, then the saxophone, growing up to become perhaps the most famous jazz musician in all of Russia. He ...

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Jim Wilke: PDX Jazz

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 19, 2009

Judy and I took the train on Friday and went to the Joe Lovano conversation with Doug Ramsey at the Art Bar, had dinner there and went to the main event of the opening night - the first public performance with full orchestra of Terence Blanchard’s “A Tale of God’s Will” (Requiem for Katrina). The CD won a Grammy last year. It is very moving music, a lament for New Orleans, and very stirring. Sound was a bit of a ...

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