Performance / Tour News

Bob Baker's Marionette Theater

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2008

Just off of stage right, past a wire rack full of marionettes for “The Nutcracker" and an electrical board laden with wires and knobs, a whiteboard strongly forbids any “diva" behavior and makes Baker's mantra clear. “The puppets are the *s!"

The nearly 50-year-old stage just west of downtown, where the owner crafts most of the puppets, is behind on mortgage payments. But he is determined that the show will go on. Inside, as an elderly man wielded a marionette, ...

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Ras Moshe Continues Free Jazz from the Sanctuary

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2008

Saxophonist Ras Moshe is on the forefront of musicians keeping avant garde jazz urgent and vital. Moshe comes blessed with a jazz pedigree: his grandfather played with Lucky Millinder, Earl Bostic, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others, and his father worked with Carlos Garnett, Stanley Cowell, and other musicians in the new music scene in Brooklyn. As a result, the New York City-based Moshe is well versed in jazz’s past, but he uses his knowledge to envision the future. And he’s ...

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Performance: George Carroll's Big Band at Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on Sunday Nights

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2008

George Carroll's left hand says it all, moving in an 'S' motion up and down in front of his chest. The white-haired, bespectacled leader of the George W. Carroll Big Band stands between his 17-piece group and the crowd packed into Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on a recent Sunday night. The sound of saxophones, trumpets and trombones easily slices through the air briefly before Carroll brings the microphone in his right hand to his lips and belts out ...

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Keller Williams | 11.12.08 | Oregon

Source: JamBase
November 21, 2008

Words by: Mike Bookey | Images by: Mark Davidson

Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe :: 11.12.08 :: Domino Room :: Bend, OR

Williams, Moseley, Sipe :: 02.21 :: NYC Almost two years to the day after his solo show almost sold out the Midtown Ballroom, Keller Williams returned to Bend. But this time around, there were two striking differences. First off, the often-solo Williams was playing with his all-star cast ...

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Sten Hostfalt/Blaise Siwula at Goodbye Blue Monday NYC Nov 21

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

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The Dom Minasi String Quartet

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

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Steve Wilson Launches New Website; Blue Note Tour In '09

Source: Seth Cohen PR
November 20, 2008

Wilson Launches New Website; Major U.S. Tour Activity Set for 2009, Including a Week at The Village Vanguard with Michael Wolff, Blue Note Anniversary and More Acclaimed jazz saxophonist Steve Wilson continues to develop one of the most active, eclectic and respected careers in the music world. Adept at wearing many hats -- as band leader, sideman, educator, jazz historian and more – Steve is as well-known for his understated personality and grace as he is for his incomparable chops. ...

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Tracking Composers on the Run

Source: Michael Ricci
November 20, 2008

A beloved song can conjure all manner of associations: a time, a place, a loved one. For Steven Blier, a pianist and the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, Alexander Zemlinskys Meeraugen suggested a concert.

From that lone spark came Fugitives, a program that Mr. Blier presented with Kate Lindsey, a mezzo-soprano, and Joseph Kaiser, a tenor, at Merkin Concert Hall on Tuesday night.

The overarching theme was the disruption in European music and culture caused by ...

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