Performance / Tour News

Electric Miles at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in Philadelphia

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2008

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Revive Da Live Presents First Concert of 2008-2009 Season

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2008

Revive Da Live announces its highly anticipated upcoming concert, Thursday November 6, 2008 at 11 p.m. at New York hot spot, Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY). The concert, which is the first of a series to continue through Spring 2009, will feature emcees and producers Jeru the Damaja and Large Professor bassist Esperanza Spalding, keyboardist Shedrick Mitchell, alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, soprano/tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland and drummer Chris “Daddy" Dave. Other featured musicians include Igmar Thomas ...

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Al Jarreau Plays Jazz at McCallum Theatre

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2008

The 10th Anniversary season of Fitz's Jazz Cafe series at the McCallum Theatre continues with Al Jarreau, one of jazz's premier vocalists. He is one of those rare artists who have received Grammys in three musical genres - jazz, pop and R&B. Al's distinctive vocal style and innovative musical expressions have made him one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed performers of our time. With seven Grammy Awards, scores of international music awards, accolades worldwide, and a star on ...

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Fred Hersch Trio Performs Tribute to Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" at the Kimmel Center, December 6

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2008

"There isn’t a false note—technically or emotionally…a tribute to Hersch’s unerring ability to play music that is as intelligent as it is touching, as virtuosic as it is swinging." —Los Angeles Times

Prolific jazz pianist-composer Fred Hersch and his Trio celebrate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ album Kind of Blue and the pianists, Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, who made this best-selling jazz album legendary on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater. “A poet ...

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Bernstein in Beijing: China's Classical Music Explosion

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2008

The artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long Yu spent this October the way he's spent all his recent Octobers, dashing from concert hall to concert hall around Beijing

Joining the capacity crowds jamming into decidedly Chinese venues to hear some decidedly un-Chinese music: Puccini in the Forbidden City; Dido & Aeneas at the Beijing Concert Hall; Handl's Messiah at the Wang Fu Jing Church; Wagner's Tannhuser at the downtown Poly Theater. People who order their ...

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Correspondence: Philadelphia

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 7, 2008

As usual, things are happening in jazz in Philadelphia, the town that produced John Coltrane, Ray Bryant, Red Rodney, the Heath brothers, Richie Kamuca, Christian McBride, Joe Venuti, Shirley Scott, Jaleel Shaw, Luckey Roberts, Mary Ann McCall, Kenny Barron, Benny Golson, Philly Joe Jones and several Eubankses, to name perhaps ten-percent of the important players from that city. Rifftides reader Oliver Wunsch reports on a new development.

I wanted to share a new site we JUST launched here ...

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Wilco with Barack Obama

Source: JamBase
November 7, 2008

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Conspirator | 10.31.08 | New York

Source: JamBase
November 7, 2008

Words & Images by: Jesse Borrell

Conspirator :: 10.31.08 :: Highline Ballroom :: New York, NY

Conspirator :: 10.31 :: NYC New York City owned the electronica scene in the final days of October. Located on the Lower West Side, Highline Ballroom featured two related acts one night after another. As online rumors spread into the physical realm on the evening of October 30, it was the eclectic Disco Biscuits side project Electron that ...

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