Performance / Tour News

Sonya Kitchell and the Slip | 10.24 | San Francisco

Source: JamBase
November 14, 2008

Words by: Michele Augis | Images by: by: Scott Galbraith

Sonya Kitchell & The Slip :: 10.24.08 :: The Independent :: San Francisco, CA

Sonya Kitchell & The Slip :: 10.24 :: SF, CA Sonya Kitchell has good taste and is wise beyond her years. She chose a darling trio of fine musicians, The Slip, to back her national tour supporting her sophomore LP, This Storm (released September 2 on Decca Records). ...

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Blaise Siwula, Sten Hostfalt @ Everything Goes Book Cafe NYC

Source: All About Jazz
November 14, 2008

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100 Greatest Singers of All Time

Source: All About Jazz
November 13, 2008

The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time Our blue-ribbon panel including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and Alicia Keys ranks rock's finest vocalists. Starring: Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke and more.

1 | Aretha Franklin

You know a force from heaven. You know something that God made. And Aretha is a gift from God. When it comes to expressing yourself through song, there is no one who can touch her. She is the reason why women want to ...

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Leonisa Ardizzone Quintet CD Release Show at The Kitano on December 4th

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 13, 2008

Following-up on a critically acclaimed debut CD Afraid of the Heights (Ardijenn Music, 2007), The Leonisa Ardizzone Quintet’s sophomore release The Scent of Bitter Almonds reflects a personally tumultuous year for Leonisa that saw the temporary dissolution and subsequent renewal of her 12 year marriage. The song choices, arrangements and overall feel of the music reveal the heartbreak, uncertainty, loss, passion and rediscovery of that period. The album tells of many kinds of love and conveys the roller coaster of ...

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Four Bay Area Female Songwriters Concert in a Round

Source: Jeff Rzepiela Public Relations
November 13, 2008

Local songwriters Daphna Rahmil, Leanne Weatherly, Lori Ludy, and Jane perform their original material in a concert scheduled for Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company in Santa Clara. The Mission City is located at 2221 The Alameda in Santa Clara. Phone (408) 261-2221.

Admission is free and those who attend are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items for the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Daphna Rahmil

Daphna Rahmil is an award-winning songwriter who ...

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The Swing Solution Big Band Dinner Dance

Source: Jeff Rzepiela Public Relations
November 13, 2008

What better way to spend a Friday, end-of-the-work week, evening? A delicious, inexpensive dinner and dancing to the 17-piece Swing Solution Big Band. The evening is part of a series of Friday evening dances with the band at the Santa Clara American Legion Hall featuring an evening of dancing to the one of the best dance bands in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Swing Solution has a repertoire ranging from classics by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glenn ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum Coming to NYC's Jazz Gallery November 14-15

Source: Improvised Communications
November 13, 2008

On Friday, November 14th and Saturday, November 15th, cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum will perform with three of his own bands over the course of two nights at New York's Jazz Gallery.

These performances are part of a larger tour celebrating both the release of the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet's second recording, Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (hatOLOGY 675), and the most recent performances of his secular oratorio, Madeleine Dreams, with his improvising chamber jazz ensemble, Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings. ...

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Tony Bennett to Perform May 8 at the Fox Theatre

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 13, 2008

The always-genial, always-swinging pop and jazz singer Tony Bennett is returning to St. Louis for a concert on Friday, May 8, 2009 at the Fox Theatre.Tickets for Bennett's concert will be priced from $55 to $85, and will go on sale at 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 21 via MetroTix and the Fox box office.The show is being presented by local PBS affiliate KETC (Channel 9), and according to a commenter on this post at Post-Dispatch music ...

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