Performance / Tour News

New Omar Sosa CD - Winter 2009 Tour Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

Recorded at the Blue Note jazz club in New York City, Across The Divide is a song cycle documenting the shared rhythms of Omar Sosa and Tim Eriksen, a New England multi-instrumentalist specializing in native and adopted American musics. The album is a narrative, a tale of musical and spiritual passage, melding and mingling seemingly disparate cultures yet highlighting the musical roots common to us all. Featured within are sampled readings from Langston Hughes, renowned giant of the Harlem Renaissance, ...

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Kevin Frenette 4 @ 119 Gallery

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

The Kevin Frenette 4 come to the 119 Gallery Saturday January 17, 2009.

Kevin Frenette (guitar),James Rohr (fender rhodes),John McLellan (drums) and Ryan McGuire (bass).

Kevin Frenette's cd 'Connections' is a dazzling display of sympathetic interactions with truly spontaneous results. Frenette and company combine for a powerful force of open-minded creative energy. --- John Barron/JazzReview.com

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and contemporary improvisation. He studied ...

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Tony Middleton @ The Blue Note (NYC) on January 18

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

WHAT: Having sung for years as an R&B, Soul, and Jazz performer in New York, London, Paris, and more recently a tour of Northern Soul in Wales, Tony is now singing with his pianist Jesse Elder, 3-time ASCAP award winner & his quartet. Tony, besides being the lead singer of the Willows, “Church Bells May Ring”, he has been a songwriter and arranger. He’s appeared on Broadway as the lead in “Cabin in the Sky: and featured singer in “Purlie. ...

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Los Angeles Weekend Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 11, 2009

Jazz Music in Los Angeles

The Jazz Bakery 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City John Abercrombie Guitar-Organ Quartet The shape-shifting jazz guitarist works out with a new ensemble. Gary Versace - organ; Adam Nussbaum - drums; Jerry Bergonzi - tenor sax. Sunday Januray 11, 2009 8:00 & 9:30 PM

Freddy & Francine featuring Lee Ferris Singer-songwriters Lee Ferris and Bianca Ferrari Caruso. Drawing on influences ...

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Hank Johnson Trio Live at St. Michael's Cemetery!

Source: All About Jazz
January 11, 2009

The Hank Johnson Trio featuring Hank on piano, Gary Smith, on drums and “Cool Mike" Fitzbenjamin on bass will perform a live jazz concert in the chapel.

St. Michael's is located in East Elmhurst, N.Y. (QUEENS) on Astoria Boulevard. 1:30 is showtime! It's free to the public, and all happening on Saturday, afternoon January 24th, 2009! There will also be a special guest vocalist Jeff Miller who will sit in and do some tunes with the trio.

What a great ...

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Maria Neckam @ Bar Next Door in NYC, Monday, Jan. 12th

Source: All About Jazz
January 11, 2009

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Jill Newman Productions Presents Mos Def in 3 Nights at Blue Note, January 23-25

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
January 11, 2009

MOS DEF Produced by Jill Newman Productions in Three Nights at the BLUE NOTE JANUARY 23 - 25 Following a sold-out concert featuring MOS DEF at the Highline Ballroom on Friday, January 9, Jill Newman Productions presents the consummate emcee, vocalist, musician and actor on three nights at the Blue Note January 23 25 at 8pm and 10:30pm. Mos Def returns to the Blue Note for the first time in five years to lead his versatile ...

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The Disco Biscuits | 12.31.08 | New York

Source: JamBase
January 11, 2009

Words by: Jesse Borrell | Images by Jesse Borrell & Robert Chapman

The Disco Biscuits :: 12.31.08 :: Nokia Theatre :: New York, NY

The Disco Biscuits :: 12.31 by Chapman Another year had ended, but still its remnants were visible as a breeze lightly pushed rubbish throughout the streets of a barren Times Square. Surrounded by negative temperatures and entrenched within the soul of NYC, people of all shapes and colors gathered above ground like penguins just hours ...

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