Performance / Tour News

Lenore Raphael Tours Florida in January

Source: LenMar Promotions
December 26, 2008

With the release of her new CD “Class Act" recorded live at Steinway Hall, Ms Raphael will take to the road again in January. As a Steinway Artist, she often performs at the Steinway piano venues and in Florida will play a concert Friday, January 16th at the Steinway piano gallery in Coral Gables, Florida. A CD signing will follow the event. On Saturday, Lenore will do a live interview at WDNA in Miami and then Sunday, January 18th She ...

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JFJO NYE: Prince, Jackson, Richie

Source: JamBase
December 25, 2008

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY Ring In 2009 at BLANK SLATE In TULSA Playing the Music of Prince, Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie

JFJO If you live near Oklahoma and haven't made New Year's Eve plans, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is the band to celebrate with. Wrapping up a year that has seen JFJO release a new album and play many of their highest profile shows to date, including a return tour of Europe, the band brings ...

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Hanukkah Receives Kosher Pop New York Welcome

Source: Michael Ricci
December 24, 2008

Matisyahu, the kosher-pop singer, welcomes Hanukkah with his Festival of Lights series, which continues this week and next at Webster Hall in the East Village and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Matisyahu deployed what may be the only large, mirrored, rotating dreidel in show business — a Jewish answer to a disco ball — at Webster Hall on Sunday night, the first night of Hanukkah. It was also the first of eight New York City shows for Matisyahu ...

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Romain Collin at the Blue Note,NYC January 3, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
December 23, 2008

To celebrate the holiday season and the imminent release of his debut record, The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn on Fresh Sound Records, there will be a special performance by pianist Romain Collin at the Blue Note NYC. It will be video recorded for a live DVD and feature: Luques Curtis (b), Zack Harmon (dms) and special guest Marcus Strickland (sax). All that come out may see their friendly faces on the finished product!

Romain Collin graduated from the prestigious ...

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Tim Ries & the Rolling Stones Project - Live Michigan & Chicago Dec 27th & 28th

Source: All About Jazz
December 23, 2008

A versatile and thoughtful saxophonist and composer, Tim Ries has collaborated with such jazz artists as Phil Woods, Tom Harrell, Al Foster, John Patitucci, Dave Liebman, Danilo Perez, Maynard Ferguson, Red Garland, Badal Roy, Maria Schneider and Donald Byrd. A Verve release with The Joe Henderson Big Band won a Grammy Award. Having just returned from a second world tour with the Rolling Stones playing saxophone, keyboard and organ, his other recording and performance credits include work with such diverse ...

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STS9 Live Pa | 12.13.08 | S.F.

Source: JamBase
December 23, 2008

Words by: Zack Sampsel | Images by: Daniel Kokin

Sound Tribe Sector 9 Live PA :: 12.13.08 :: Club 6 :: San Francisco, CA

STS9 Live PA :: 12.13 :: San Francisco With a 2 a.m. start time and a crowd already glistening in sweat from the previous night's performances, members of Sound Tribe Sector 9 took to the stage for a Live PA set at ArtNowSF's monthly Veni Vidi Vici party and dropped a set of laptop-friendly tracks ...

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Bon Iver | 12.15 and 12.10 | Pa/NY

Source: JamBase
December 23, 2008

Words & Images by: Jake Krolick

Bon Iver :: 12.15.08 :: The Trocadero :: Philadelphia, PA

Bon Iver :: 12.15 :: Philly We live in uncertain and tumultuous times. Life's daily struggles are getting more serious as economic blows are met with growing anxiety. A bittersweet holiday season has dug its claws into the country as friends around us are losing their jobs. That knowledge can weigh down one's thoughts with an unsettling touch ...

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Spencer Day to Perform at the Jazz Bakery on January 25, 2009

Source: Jim Goyjer Associates
December 22, 2008

Los Angeles, Calif., -December 21, 2008 – Uniquely American singer/songwriter Spencer Day (www.spencerday.com) will be performing on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at the renowned Jazz Bakery, considered by LA Weekly as “the most prestigious jazz space in Los Angeles." Destined to become a big star is the sentiment of notable music reviewers throughout the United States. He is a perennial favorite at jazz venues in San Francisco and New York, and has been gaining a strong following throughout the country ...

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