Performance / Tour News

Freddy and Francine Play the Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2009

FREDDY & FRANCINE, the duo formed in early 2008 by multi-talented singer-songwriters Lee Ferris and Bianca Ferrari Caruso, are comming to the Jazz Bakery.

Both have performed in many musical projects over the past five years including the award winning Los Angeles production of HAIR. They are now taking the stage together at the famed Jazz Bakery with their exciting, original project -- Freddy & Francine.

Drawing on influences from musical icons that include Aretha Franklin and The ...

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Michelle Walker - Live @ Smoke Jazz Club - Weekend Show Just Added

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2009

Michelle Walker - Jazz Vocalist APAP WEEKEND - SHOW JUST ADDED LIVE @ SMOKE JAZZ CLUB SUNDAY JANUARY 11TH - 6:00PM-8:00PM SMOKE JAZZ CLUB 2751 Broadway NYC, NY between 105th and 106th Streets Take the #1 Train to 103rd Street FEATURING:

NIKOLAZ HESS - PIANO Winner of the RAI competion Best European Jazz Pianist, Danish Pianist Hess offers “improvisational art at the higest level...with his totally masterful sense of rhythm he tracks the point where the music swings the most ...

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St. Louis Jazz Club Sets 2009 Schedule

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 10, 2009

The St. Louis Jazz Club has announced its schedule of events for 2009, with a lineup of Sunday matinee concerts featuring local and regional talent, including multiple performances by some of St. Louis' favorite traditional jazz and swing ensembles.The SLJC will kick off 2009 with a show next Sunday, January 18 by Cornet Chop Suey (pictured) at the Moolah Shrine Center, 12545 Fee Fee Rd in Maryland Heights. The Farmington High School Jazz Band will open the show ...

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Mario Pavone Nodding to Tradition While Pursuing the Ideal

Source: Michael Ricci
January 10, 2009

MARIO PAVONE DOUBLE TENOR QUINTET Nodding to Tradition While Pursuing the Ideal

Mario Pavone's jazz can possibly be heard two different ways. His gig at Iridium on Wednesday night had two traditions running through it: the rhythmic and harmonic grids of bebop and all that descends from it, and the cathartic tracing-in-air of free jazz. But that's a pretty brain-first, ears-second way to put it. The mixture proposed by Mr. Pavone his third way represents its own tradition. ...

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Cafiso to Perform at Obama's Ceremony

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2009

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Howlin' Blues and Dirty Dogs Returns to the Stage January 22 Starring Blues & Jazz Vocalist Barbara Morrison

Source: Teresa Conboy PR
January 10, 2009

Blues and jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison returns to the stage in the play Howlin Blues and Dirty Dogs, about the life and times of legendary blues singer Big Mama Thornton. Enjoying a sold-out five week run at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood last summer, this play of music, dancing, comedy and drama re-opens on Thursday, January 22 at 8:00 p.m. at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood at Hollywood and Highland. The play will run every week on ...

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Van Morrison on Bringing 'Astral Weeks' Shows to NYC

Source: Michael Ricci
January 9, 2009

Van Morrison said that his Hollywood Bowl shows in November would be the only time he would perform his classic 1968 album Astral Weeks live.

But that was before the two performances, which he says in an exclusive Times interview, “was more than I could have hoped for." The whole thing just worked, he told The Times by e-mail. One rehearsal -- that was not even that good -- and we hit the stage and the Magi or whoever just ...

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New York Jazz Clubs Listing

Source: Michael Ricci
January 9, 2009

Jazz Listings in and around New York City Weekend January 8th 2009

ADOBE PROBE (Saturday) The alto saxophonist Tim Berne presides over this typically oblique ensemble but entrusts a lot of decisions to his collaborators: the multireedist Chris Speed, the trumpeter Shane Endsley, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Gerald Cleaver. At 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; cover, $10.

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE BAND ...

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