Performance / Tour News

Beat Kaestli Quartet @ Smoke Feat. Aria Hendricks and Adrian Mira

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

On Sunday, February 8th Beat Kaestli is returning to Smoke Jazz Club (sets @ 6 & 7pm) with his stellar band and two special guests - vocalist Aria Hendricks and saxophone player Adrian Mira.

He'll showcase his upcoming CD “Far From Home - A Tribute to European Song" and he will also premier songs from his French repertoire.

About Smoke Jazz Club: Smoke is one of NYC premier Jazz venues with a great atmosphere and a delicious food ...

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Blaise Siwula/Claire Debrunner/Sten Hostfalt at Yippie Cafe NYC Feb 5

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

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Flight of the Conchords Schedule Spring Tour

Source: Billboard Magazine
January 31, 2009

New Zealand duo Flight Of The Conchords will embark on an extensive North American tour this spring, beginning April 6 in Tampa, Fla. Highlights of the itinerary include New York's Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks outside Denver and the Santa Barbara Bowl in California. The group will also play two-show engagements during single-night stands in Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Berkeley, Calif. The outing is timed to the conclusion of the second season of “Flight of the Conchords" on HBO, as ...

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Seattle Times: Mark Sherman Brings His Vibraphone (and Quartet) to Tula's

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
January 31, 2009

from The Seattle Times: Vibraphone players are something of a rare breed in jazz music, sometimes a happy accident, Mark Sherman being one of them. Serendipity is known to take its time, so perhaps it is no surprise that Sherman, 51, was well into middle age before he really hit his stride. Named the “Rising Star” among vibraphonists for the past two years in the Downbeat magazine critics poll, Sherman is quickly catching attention for his muscular and deeply melodic ...

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Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck Celebrates 20th CD with U.S. & European Tours

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
January 31, 2009

Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck Celebrates Her 20th CD, “Once There Was A Moon," In New York And Florida “Something old, something new, everything fantastic..." --Paul Coladarci, KUNV Jazz Radio, Las Vegas, NV NEW YORK - Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck celebrates her 20th CD, Once There Was a Moon, at concerts in New York and Florida throughout February. A master of the Great American Songbook, she will present music from her new CD as well as some of her favorite standards. Tour dates ...

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Bruce Springsteen the Rock Laureate and the Super Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2009

AT 9 o’clock on a recent morning Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were already half an hour into a rehearsal at the rock club Terminal 5 in Manhattan.

As N.F.L. executives and a television production team watched, they were tightening their miniset of four songs — dropping verses, streamlining segues — to fit their 12-minute slot as the halftime entertainment Sunday at Super Bowl XLIII, expected to reach tens of millions of viewers.

“My take on the Super ...

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Jimmy Webb at Largo at the Coronet

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2009

It requires a fair amount of chutzpah for any singer to take on songs that have been definitively recorded by Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Art Garfunkel and James Taylor -- even if that singer happens to have written those songs.

Fortunately, songwriter extraordinaire Jimmy Webb showed no deficit of nerve Wednesday night at Largo at the Coronet as he ran through nearly two hours' worth of some of the most elegantly crafted compositions of the last ...

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JFJO Offer New Album for Free Mathis' Last Appearance w/ Band

Source: JamBase
January 30, 2009

JFJO Offer New Album Winterwood As Free Download Last Appearance of Reed Mathis with the Band

JFJO Following a year that found the band winning a Guinness Cork Award and playing at Newport Jazz Festival & Lincoln Center, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has announced a special gift for their fans to kick off 2009 and celebrate the Fred's 15th anniversary.

As a thank you to all of the music lovers who have helped make the Odyssey possible, JFJO ...

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