Performance / Tour News

Aretha Franklin Among Performers at King Concert

Source: All About Jazz
December 13, 2008

A free concert featuring Aretha Franklin will be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington to pay tribute to the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.

The show is being sponsored by the performing arts center and Georgetown University. It will take place on January 19, which is Martin Luther King Day. Since 2003, the program has featured Kennedy Center honorees and popular entertainers. Franklin was an honoree in 1994.

The event will also include ...

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Liza Minnelli Onstage: Resistance is Futile

Source: All About Jazz
December 13, 2008

Liza Minnelli performs “Liza's at the Palace," at the historic vaudeville theater in New York City. Liza is still somebody's idea of entertainment. Witness the frenzied scene a few nights ago at Broadway's Palace Theatre, where Liza is doing a one-woman show through Jaunary 4. For one thing, she looks a lot better on a theater stage than she does under the close scrutiny of TV cameras sleeker, steadier, slimmer. The spangly pantsuits flatter her. She sounded better too, at ...

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Dave Allen Quartet at 55 Bar on December 14th

Source: All About Jazz
December 13, 2008

Dave Allen​ Quart​et

with: ​​ Mark Shim Drew Gress​ Ted Poor 10pm ​"Dave Allen​ is one of a numbe​r of spitf​ire jazz guita​rists​ raisi​ng the bar on that ever-​​ popul​ar instr​ument​.​​ But Allen​ offer​s more than battl​e-​​ready​ chops​—his Untol​d Stori​es and Real and Imagi​ned are about​ origi​nal music​,​​ lofti​ly conce​ived,​​ with grace​ful melod​ic conte​nt and subtl​e rhyth​mic chall​enges​.​​ He’s got the pull to assem​ble world​-​​class​ bands​ ...

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Chalkers Pub & Bistro December 12-14, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
December 13, 2008

Three jazz shows are coming to Chalker's Pub & Bistro.

Friday, December 12, 6-9 pm: Tara Davidson Quartet, Jazz Sax player and composer Tara Davidson was nominated for a 2007 Juno and is highly regarded for her playing and writing.

Saturday, December 13, 6-9 pm: David French, Jazz A versatile saxophone player.

Sunday, December 14, 7-10 pm: Sophia Perlman Quartet, Jazz A young singer who is making a ...

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Rez Abbasi and R.O.C. Trio Grounded in Folk Tradition and Jazz Improvisation

Source: Michael Ricci
December 13, 2008

Sounds Mixed and Matched Indo-Pak Coalition, a trio equally grounded in folk tradition and jazz improvisation, proposes a social pact as well a musical ideal. The groups name is partly self-descriptive the alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa is of Indian descent, while the guitarist Rez Abbasi was born in Pakistan but it also carries an underlying message made all the more painfully relevant by events like the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Of course it might feel nave or ...

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Stanton Moore Trio/Greyhounds | 11.21

Source: JamBase
December 13, 2008

Words by: Sarah Hagerman | Images by: Manny Moss

Stanton Moore Trio/Greyhounds :: 11.21.08 :: The Parish :: Austin, TX

Stanton Moore :: 11.21 :: Austin This was one of those nights where I - being of the anxious minded - brought a lot of baggage into the show, from personal worries to the latest news on Marketplace I had heard on my way back from work. But the justifiably enthused crowd that graced Austin's third annual Funkfest as ...

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Wayne Shorter Quartet at Disney Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
December 12, 2008

The veteran sax man and his combo treat a Disney Hall audience to an improvisational tour de force. Miriam Adam, the clarinetist for Grammy-winning quintet Imani Winds, sounded almost apologetic as she back-introduced the ensemble's first song in its opening set for Wayne Shorter, an evocative, dramatic piece from Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Clad in a candy-colored gown, she said something along the lines of how Wednesday night's Disney Hall audience wasn't expecting classical woodwind music to lead the way ...

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Jazz This Week: "A Soulful Christmas," Jim Manley, a Tribute to Louis Armstrong, Erin Bode, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 12, 2008

Although several of our town's not-for-profit presenters have already gone into holiday or, in the case of the universities, end-of-semester mode, there's still plenty of live jazz on St. Louis stages this weekend. Let's go to the highlights:Tonight, the very fine pianist Reggie Thomas leads a group featuring trumpeter Anthony Wiggins in a free concert at the Black Cat Theatre in Maplewood. The show will feature the music of Louis Armstrong, and is part of Jazz St. Louis' ...

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