Performance / Tour News

Chalkers Pub & Bistro This Week: December 4-10

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2008

Heres whats coming up at Chalkers Pub & Bistro, on the second floor at 247 Marlee Ave. No cover for any of these shows. Thursday, December 4, 8-12 Girls Night Out Jazz Jam Anchored by host and versatile singer Lisa Particelli, with famed Norman Marshall Villeneuve on drums, this event, now in its second year at Chalkers, never fails to attract stellar singers both male and female, as well as superb players sitting in on a ...

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Liza is Back in Business

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2008

Liza Minnelli may be 62, but she's still a legendand now she (and her new hips) are returning to Broadway.

Legendary for her talent, family historyand messy personal lifeLiza Minnelli returns to Broadway's Palace Theatre with a new one-woman show, Liza's At the Palace! She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: This show is partly a tribute to Kay Thompson, the author of “Eloise." Did she give you autographed copies? Liza Minnelli: Well, she was my godmother ...

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Celine Dion's Taking Chances Tour at Staples Center

Source: Michael Ricci
December 5, 2008

It's a no-brainer why Celine Dion's Taking Chances tour is shaping up as one of the highest-grossing North American concert attractions of 2008.

Think about it: As a nation were going to have to pony up several hundred-billion dollars and hope it might halt the ever-deepening economic meltdown.

Feel-good factor for that outlay? Zilch.

But for a measly C-note or three, hundreds of thousands of fans are filling arena after arena to hear Dion deliver emotional climax after emotional climax, ...

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Brazilians Who Take Their Fun Mixed with a Clatter in NY

Source: Michael Ricci
December 5, 2008

Odd sounds kept appearing when Kassin+2 performed at Nublu on Tuesday night. Its a band from Rio de Janeiro thats grounded in Brazilian pop and familiar with funk, rock and Caribbean and African music.

And it made sure that noise infiltrated the supple tunes. There were abrupt chirps and swoops from keyboards and sampler, while guitar lines flipped into distortion and reverb or deliberately strayed into dissonance. In one song an insistent keyboard chord kept jabbing against the beat and ...

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Sathima Bea Benjamin Performs at Sweet Rhythm

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2008

The legendary South African vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin performs at New York's Sweet Rhythm Jazz Club on Wednesday, December 10 at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm. Joining Sathima are pianist Stephen Scott, bassist Buster Williams, and drummer George Gray.

Praised by Jazztimes as “South Africa's greatest living jazz singer," vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin has established herself as a highly respected composer and a master interpreter of American jazz standards. Her career includes collaborations with some of the most influential figures ...

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Anderson Modern Music at ABC No Rio on December 7th

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2008

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Reminder: Rudresh Mahanthappa Presents Samdhi Unplugged at the Painted Bride Art Center

Source: All About Jazz
December 4, 2008

Rudresh Mahanthappa Presents Samdhi Unplugged 7pm and 9pm Jazz on Vine Saturday, December 6 $25/$12.50 for members Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 215.925.9914 Samdhi is a Sanskrit word meaning that which combines or unites or the interval between day and night. In Hindu terms, it refers to the period between the end of one age (or yuga) and the dawn ...

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John Beasley "All-Star" Quartet at the Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
December 4, 2008

Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, Jeff “Tain" Watts and John Beasley play the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles December 4-6, 2008

Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock's Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to play music from Beasley's 2009 GRAMMY considered latest CD Letter to Herbie, a tribute album to Herbie ...

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