Performance / Tour News

Charlie Brown Christmas Live

Source: All About Jazz
December 19, 2008

Charlie Os has a solid seven straight nights of killer jazz music this week, every one a pick. If you can manage to do all your shopping in the vicinity of Victory and Woodman, you can just kinda pop in on your way home every night.

(Theres a 7-Eleven nearby, a liquor store, always a yard sale or two in the area that should work.)

It kicks in hard with tenor Ernie Watts on Friday; (if youve heard his latest, ...

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Release Party January 3rd for Guitarist Ron Jackson's New CD, "Flubby Dubby"

Source: All About Jazz
December 19, 2008

WHAT: Release party for Guitarist Ron Jackson's new CD, “Flubby Dubby"

WHEN: Saturday, January 3, 2009 from 7:30pm-10-30pm

WHERE: Rose live music 345 Grand Street (btwn Havemeyer/Marcy) 11211 Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718.599.0069 Featuring Ron Jackson - Guitar Greg Lewis - Hammond Organ Teodross Avery - Tenor Saxophone Bruce Williams - Alto Saxophone Gordon Lane - Drums

Produced by guitar great and mentor Melvin Sparks, Ron's ...

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Aretha Franklin to Sing at Obama Inauguration

Source: Billboard Magazine
December 19, 2008

Aretha Franklin will sing, the Rev. Rick Warren will pray and more than 11,000 U.S. troops will be watching over inauguration ceremonies in case of an attack during President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in on Jan. 20. As many as 4 million visitors are expected to be on hand when Obama takes the noontime oath from Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Capitol. The program is to feature poet Elizabeth Alexander; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a veteran civil rights ...

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Poncho Sanchez & Gato Barbieri at Lehman Center

Source: Leah Grammatica Public Relations
December 19, 2008

LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents TWO GIANTS OF LATIN MUSIC! PONCHO SANCHEZ & GATO BARBIERI Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its exciting season with a concert featuring two GRAMMY® Award-winning Latin jazz greats – PONCHO SANCHEZ and GATO BARBIERI – on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 8pm. Conguero PONCHO SANCHEZ has led one of the most popular Latin jazz bands in the world for a quarter of a century, merging Afro-Cuban rhythms with the ...

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Tony Bennett at the Apollo with Count Basie Orchestra

Source: Michael Ricci
December 18, 2008

Tony Bennett performed standards and holiday songs on Tuesday night with the Count Basie Orchestra at the Apollo Theater. Poise in the wind of uncertainty is a very old idea in American pop. Basically outdated and nearly archaeological, its the default disposition of all songs that cycle constantly through cocktail-hour soundtracks, songs from a disappearing race of sanguine, moral-romantic heroes. When Tony Bennett, now 82, enacts that kind of poise onstage, whats impressive isnt that hes doing it at all ...

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Jazz in the White House/ When the President Blew His Sax

Source: Michael Ricci
December 18, 2008

It had to happen, and when it did, it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. After President Clinton gave his final remarks at the White House jazz festival, the saxophonist Illinois Jacquet handed him a saxophone, and off the band went into Miles Davis's blues waltz, “All Blues."

Happy to say, the President (who in his early career as a saxophonist had committed Mr. Jacquet's landmark improvisation on “Flying Home" to memory), didn't equivocate, change his mind ...

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Jazz This Week: Jacky Terrasson, Manhattan Transfer, the Final Week for Cookie's, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 18, 2008

The week before Christmas is a busy one for many people, but if you've got the time, and are willing to brave the colder-than-usual weather, there's definitely some music worth hearing around St. Louis over the next few days, starting with the two well-known touring jazz headliners who will be in town this weekend.First up, there's pianist Jacky Terrasson (pictured), who opens a four-night stand tonight at Jazz at the Bistro and continues through Saturday. You can find ...

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Neil Young Has a Heart of Gold and a Car of Biodiesel

Source: Michael Ricci
December 17, 2008

He Keeps On Rockin at the Garden: Neil Young gave the first of two tour-ending concerts at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, on a bill that also included the bands Wilco and Everest. Near the midpoint of his sprawling, deeply satisfying show at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, Neil Young asked a simple question: Where did all the money go? He sang this line and repeated it, for emphasis or symmetry. And a few moments later he issued ...

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