Performance / Tour News

John Legend Old-Fashioned Romantic in a Machismo World

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

John Legend kept his distance from the piano when he started his concert at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night.

He looked like an aggressive R&B star, with a video intro presenting him as a boxer ( la L L Cool J) while he made his entrance down the orchestra aisle in sunglasses and a leather jacket. Booming drumbeats pushed him through his first half-dozen songs as he worked the stage.

But he looked more comfortable once he tossed ...

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Seattle Times: New Orleans Sound Takes a Trip to Seattle, Courtesy of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 7, 2009

from The Seattle Times: Everyone should experience Mardi Gras at least once, but if a trip to New Orleans isn’t in the cards, rest assured that the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is bringing a potent jolt of Crescent City soul to Seattle. A New Orleans institution for more than 30 years, the Dirty Dozen revolutionized the brass-band tradition in the late 1970s by adding a bracing shot of bebop into an already savory musical gumbo. Born out of the Fairview ...

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Marco Benevento Trio | 02.03 | Oakland

Source: JamBase
February 7, 2009

Words by: Dennis Cook | Images by: Josh Miller

Marco Benevento Trio :: 02.03.09 (Late Show) :: Yoshi's :: Oakland, CA

Marco Benevento Trio :: 02.03 :: Oakland Much like Marco Benevento's newly released Me Not Me (read JamBase's review here), the late show at intimate, acoustically perfect Yoshi's Oakland began in a swirl of stardust. As the music solidified, I found myself wondering, mouth agape, “What do ...

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New York Week End Jazz Clubs

Source: Michael Ricci
February 6, 2009

Jazz Listings

RASHIED ALI QUINTET (Sunday) Rashied Ali has had a substantial career in the jazz avant-garde, beginning with his role in the late-period bands of John Coltrane. But hard bop is the foundation for this quintet, with a front line of the trumpeter Josh Evans and the tenor saxophonist Lawrence Clark. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $25.

AVANTANGO (Sunday) The Argentine bassist Pablo Aslan, ...

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What's Cooking Around L.A.

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

The jazz picks this week are on the rad side.

Take powerful tenor and baritone Dale Fielder at Vibrato on Friday: This guy can rock a room. Or across town at the Caf 322, where The Bobby Bradford Motet slips his out-there stuff by the crowd by hiding it in some fairly traditional arrangements. It works. Guitarist/picker Bruce Forman is the melodic third of the house trio at the Foundry on Melrose on Friday, while pianist Josh Nelson ...

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Boston Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

The Complete Works of John Coltrane - Broms Organ Trio Pianist and Organist Ed Broms will complete his two year series of performances playing the complete works of jazz legend John Coltrane. 2/6/2009 Friday 7:30p The Cathedral Church of St. Paul

Boston MA Eliane Elias This Brazilian pianist/composer/vocalist's show is a sultry & sophisticated mix of superb piano work & haunting vocals. 2/7/2009 Saturday 8:00p (repeats 3 times) ...

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Sten Hostfalt and Blaise Siwula at Goodbye Blue on February 11th

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

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Department of Eagles | 01.25.09 | S.F.

Source: JamBase
February 6, 2009

Words by: Jillian Horn | Images by: Julia Blaustein

Department of Eagles/The Cave Singers :: 01.25.09 :: Cafe du Nord :: San Francisco, CA

Department of Eagles :: 01.25 :: S.F. The Department of Eagles stopped by Cafe du Nord for two back-to-back performances (an early and a late show), each contrastingly wrapped in neat precision and imperfect freshness. Just as their latest album (In Ear Park) reflects, the performance served as an intimate ...

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