Performance / Tour News

Saxophonist Tim Warfield Brings Holiday Jazz to Baltimore.

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Critically acclaimed saxophonist Tim Warfield, will be appearing for one night only, this Saturday, December 20th, 2008, at Jazzway 6004. Tim will be appearing with a stellar cast of musicians to perform music from his holiday songbook. The group will feature special guests, vocalist Joanna Pascale and the Grammy award winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Jazzway is located at 6004 Hollins Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21210. Included in this performance is a special holiday menu, ...

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Rick Stone Trio at the Bar Next Door

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Rick Stone Trio presents an evening of originals and standards at the Bar Next Door at La Lanterna, Thursday, January 15, 2009, 8:00-11:30pm. Featuring Rick Stone (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Tom Pollard (drums). The Bar Next Door is located at 129 MacDougal Street, New York, NY (between West 3rd and West 4th Streets). For reservations call: (212) 529-5945 About Rick Stone From fresh interpretations of jazz standards, to lyrically evocative originals, New York City based guitarist Rick Stone is ...

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Detroit's Palmer Woods Begins Seven-Month Series of on December 20-21

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

(Detroit, MI) - Palmer Woods, a Detroit neighborhood known for its exquisite residential architecture and design, will present a series of jazz, classical and world music in magnificent Palmer Woods homes and a dinner dance with music at the Detroit Golf Club. From December through June, internationally recognized, Detroit-based musicians will perform in the Palmer Woods Music in Homes concert series. Tickets are available for purchase online at palmerwoods.org or by calling 313-891-2514 for mail-in information. The series is presented ...

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Howard Fishman's Brass Band Celebrates

Source: Michael Ricci
December 15, 2008

Howard Fishman and his brass band, Etienne Charles, Howard Fishman, Jordan Perlson, Roland Barber and Jose Davila, perform in the Big Apple.

Howard Fishman has a fondness for old things and a knack for restoring them. A decade ago that combination of traits led to his first big New York engagement, at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel. Leading a spry quartet, he dusted off the cameos and curios of a vanished era, drawing no distinctions among Dixieland, bluegrass ...

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Tribute to Tommy Dorsey and More Around L.A.

Source: All About Jazz
December 14, 2008

Benny Golson, Jazz Summit II, Cecelia Coleman nad other jazz around L.A.

Benny Golson still sounds fine, too, and hes finishing up his umpteenth Jazz Bakery stand this Friday and Saturday. And check out Catalinas on Tuesday, where theres a Tribute to Tommy Dorsey. Getting that utterly perfect, sweet trombone will be Bill Watrous; indeed, hell nail it, even on the valve. To really nail it he could beat someone up, fire a player on the stand, chase your wife ...

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Oberlin to Premiere New Jazz Opera

Source: All About Jazz
December 14, 2008

From Off the Streets of Cleveland Comes Leave Me Alone!, a Jazz Opera by Harvey Pekar and Dan Plonsey.Premieres at the Oberlin Conservator of Music and via webcast Jan 31, 2009.

American Splendor Icon Pekar Focuses His Sardonic Wit on the Everyday Struggles of Avant-Garde Artists, with Music from Cleveland-born Composer and Saxophonist Plonsey.

The iconic underground comic book author Harvey Pekar will make his operatic debut at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Leave Me Alone!, an ...

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Leonard Bernstein's 'Peter Pan' Flies Again

Source: Michael Ricci
December 14, 2008

Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan.... Did you hear that right? Almost 60 years after its premiere, an almost forgotten play with music gets its definitive hearing.

Albert Ihde and Ellen Pasternack's nuptials involved much more than the union of two souls -- there was also the ritual joining together of their record collections, which ran a close second for the founding couple behind Santa Barbara Theatre. And when Pasternack first heard Ihde's original recording of Leonard Bernstein's ...

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Reggie Workman's New School Annual Dual Concerts, December 15 @ The New School

Source: The Cinarae Group
December 14, 2008

Legendary Bassist Reggie Workman directs the “next generation" of Jazz with his New School Annual Dual Concerts event featuring the New School's Futuristic and Coltrane Ensembles. Bring the family for this FREE holiday fete of music by the great John Coltrane, John Carter, Reggie Workman, Sonelious Smith, as well as exciting originals by these promising students at this world-class jazz program!

Reggie Workman NEW SCHOOL ANNUAL DUAL CONCERTS The NS Coltrane Ensemble (7pm) & The NS ...

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