Performance / Tour News

The Machine | 12.28.08 | New York

Source: JamBase
January 15, 2009

Words by: Kevin Schwartzbach | Images by: Benjamin Maas

The Machine :: 12.28.08 :: B.B. King's Blues Club :: New York, NY

The Machine :: 12.28 :: NYC The unfortunate reality for fans of classic rock is that their favorite acts are increasingly dwindling. And as more and more baby booming bands go the way of the dodo extant fans are left with but one refuge - the cover band. Though the stigma attached ...

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Disco Biscuits Cali and More

Source: JamBase
January 15, 2009

Going to California: The Disco Biscuits Announce Nine-Day Golden State Tour, Including Two Weekends Band Will Visit the West Coast for the First Time Since 2007

The Disco Biscuits :: 12.31 by Borrell The Disco Biscuits will make their first California appearance since 2007, heading west for seven performances capped off by a pair of weekend shows at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on April 11 and 12. The run kicks off with a ...

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Les Claypool Tour with Saul, O'Death, Devotchka

Source: JamBase
January 15, 2009

LES CLAYPOOL - The Oddity Faire - A Mutated Mini FestLes Claypool

Les Claypool will head out on the road for The Oddity Faire - A Mutated Mini FestLes Claypool with tour support from O'Death, Saul Williams, Devotchka, Yard Dogs Road Show, The Mutaytor and Secret Chiefs 3.

This tour will be in support of Claypool's Of Fungi and Foe. Set for release on March 17, this is the follow-up to 2006's Of Whales and Woe.

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Fred Herschs Club Jazz Between Old Fashions and New Tastes

Source: Michael Ricci
January 15, 2009

Most small-group jazz combines composition and improvisation, and one is generally losing the battle against the other. Thats fine; its part of what gives a band its character. But in Fred Herschs music, which he plays as part of a quintet at the Village Vanguard this week, the two elements are balanced pretty perfectly.

Mr. Hersch, a pianist, comes with a sensibility well informed by the best American composers in jazz, theater and films, by Brazilian music, by classical music. ...

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Tony Martin a Crooner Returns with a Swing in His Heart

Source: Michael Ricci
January 15, 2009

To watch the 96-year-old Tony Martin perform songs he recorded more than six decades ago in a voice that is surprisingly unchanged from what it was in the 1940s and 50s is to witness how popular songs and memory can work together as a kind of Proustian madeleine.

Mr. Martin, who opened a five-night engagement at Feinsteins at Loews Regency on Tuesday, is a quiet, courtly figure who, once settled onto a stool, exhibits the classic body language of a ...

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Greg Robinson, Trombone with Guitarist John Liquori at Wichcraft 8th Street, NYC

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

Trombonist Greg Robinson performs with guitarist John Liquori twice this weekend at Wichcraft, 60 East 8th Street, New York City.

Robinson, a former student of Benny Powell, is known for membership in legendary ska bands Mephiskapheles and The Toasters, as well as for his writing in the pages of JazzTimes, Windplayer, and Cadence.

Robinson and Liquori have been performing together as a jazz duo for more than 10 years. They previously held open-ended engagements in the East Village at Louis, ...

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Bassist Bruno Raberg January Gigs

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

Sweden-born experimental/jazz bassist and composer Bruno Raberg's latest album “The Lifelines” received reviews from various sources such as Hartford Courant, All About Jazz, Jazz.com, etc.

Jerry D’Souza in All About Jazz describes the album, “The improvisations are a study of the understanding between the four….the way each player nimbly threads his way into the spaces set by the others is quite astonishing…Raberg, as may well be expected, comes up with another delectable recording.” Also, Bill Milkowski in JazzTimes states “For ...

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Steve Weingart at NAMM 2009 and Beyond

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

Keyboard virtuoso Steve Weingart will be performing with Simon Phillips band, Scott Ambush's band, and The Trio featuring Marco Mendoza & Joey Heredia with special guests, at NAMM 2009, Anaheim, California.

Weingart is currently recording a third solo album, this time with his wife Renee Jones, which will feature vocal songs as well as the jazz/funk instrumentals for which Weingart has gained international acclaim. Weingart will also be touring Europe with Steve Lukather in February and March 2009.

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