Performance / Tour News

Jazz This Week: Robert Dick, the Last Poets, New Bands at the Bistro, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 30, 2009

Assuming you've dug out of the snow that hit St. Louis earlier this week, and are willing to venture out in the cold over the next few days to hear some jazz and creative music, here's what you'll find:Tonight, trumpeter Randy Holmes and the Hard Bop Heritage Quintet perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. (And no, Jazz at Holmes has still not released a schedule for the entire semester. More on ...

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TLG/Hackensaw Boys | 01.24.09 | D.C.

Source: JamBase
January 30, 2009

Words by: Josh Klemons | Images by: Ben Root

Tea Leaf Green/Hackensaw Boys :: 01.24.09 :: 9:30 Club :: Washington, D.C.

Hackensaw Boys :: 01.24 :: Washington, D.C. When a show starts promptly at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, the opening band can usually expect to be playing for a sparsely filled dance floor. Typically, only the faithful, the headliner's diehard fans will be there to claim spots in the front, along with a few loyal fans of ...

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Guitarist Ernesto Cortazar Live in Seychelles!

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2009

World-class guitarist Ernesto Cortazar will arrive in Seychelles early next month and will hold concerts for the public and seminars for local musicians during his month-long stay. Mr. Cortazar is originally from Mexico, studying guitar at the Music Conservatory in Mexico City, and now lives in Zurich, Switzerland, where he performs, records, does session work and teaches guitar. He toured with Ricky Martin in the mid-Nineties and has performed with Carlos Santana, Kermit Driscol and other well-known artists. Over the ...

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February Jazz at Charlie O's with Special Tribute Tonight

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

FEBRUARY JAZZ AT CHARLIE O'S

Before I get to our February news, this is just a reminder that tomorrow night, January 29th, will be dedicated to Charlie when Don Menza will do a repeat performance of the Tribute to Stan Getz that he did last January for Charlie's birthday celebration. The four saxes will be Pete Christlieb, Don Menza, Gary Foster and Gene Cipriano with Roy McCurdy, drums, Mike Melvoin, piano and Chris Conner, bass. They played for Charlie's birthday ...

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Celebrate Great Jazz Experienced in Local Hangs

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

Jack Sheldon was hot at Jax last Thursday. Jennifer Leitham swung the bassline like mad and plunged into these beautifully dense solos with great washes of chords or hanging, aching notes

Drummer Dick Weller kicked it up crazily as Joe Bagg finessed coherent melodies (or chunks of Monk) from a piano last tuned during the Eisenhower administration. Jack just got hotter and hotter, those near perfect solos, the trumpet’s single notes celebrating the tune like Satchmo taking off into the ...

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Mose Allison Coming to the Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

That's right -- that incomparable master of irreverence, sly blues pianist par excellence, idiosyncratic songwriter ("I'm Not Talking"; “Your Mind Is On Vacation") and true American original Mose Allison is back! And that means just one thing -- you better get your seats early, because when the one and only Mose comes to town, it's standing room only!

MOSE ALLISON TOM WARRINGTON-bass The Jazz Bakery Culver City February 18 - ...

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba: A Pianist Happy to Let Others Do the Driving

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2009

About a year and a half ago the redoubtable Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba took a new band into the studio. He had broken in his sidemen, a clutch of young New York progressives, with a weeklong run at the Jazz Standard. It was minimal preparation, given the demands of the music involved, and yet it produced strong results: “Avatar,” released on Blue Note last year, is one of his warmest and most rewarding albums. Mr. Rubalcaba and his crew are ...

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Helen Sung & Ron Carter Together on February 6th at the Rubin Museum NYC

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 29, 2009

Helen Sung & Ron Carter will be performing in concert together at The Rubin Museum in NYC on Febraury 6th, 2009 at 7:00PM as part of the 2009 Winter/Spring Harlem in the Himalayas Series. Helen Sung – piano Ron Carter – bass “Helen Sung is a musician of serious promise." --John Fidler, AllAboutJazz.com

“Ron Carter is an acknowledged master” --Wall Street Journal Helen Sung/Ron Carter Duo Rubin Museum of Art -150 West 17th Street ...

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