Performance / Tour News

Cecil Taylor: Still Wonderfully, Inventive '” and Crazy '” After All These Years

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Pianist Cecil Taylor's entrance at Grace Cathedral on Friday was typically cryptic. While padding in his moccasins, at times slowly dancing toward the Steinway at the front of the Gothic hall, this legendary jazz player—one of the purest artists in any genre of the past half-century—chanted and murmured one of his poems: about electrons, infinite mass and the “unit time between two parallel places." He's been doing this for years and the words are always confounding until he sits down ...

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Saviors of the American Songbook

Source: Michael Ricci
October 26, 2008

WHEN the 19th annual Cabaret Convention begins with the first of four concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday evening, a genre that has struggled for years below the mass-media radar will lift its collective voice in an annual appeal for attention and respect. Please listen, that voice politely implores. I am in danger of dying of neglect, and I have valuable knowledge gleaned from the American songbook and from show business history about love, memory, art and time. ...

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Mose Allison at Roller's Flying Fish in Philadelphia, November 7-8

Source: All About Jazz
October 25, 2008

Friday, November 7 Saturday, November 8

Time: 8:00pm Price: $35-$55

215-247-0707 Call for reservations For those of you who couldn't believe it, yes, Mose Allison really appeared at a special event at Roller's @ Flying Fish in 2007 and has agreed to return this year. As a special courtesy to early purchasers, you now have the opportunity to purchase tickets in the front two rows. You'll receive a commemorative ticket, a glass of champagne ...

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The George Kahn Quartet Performing at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Thursday, November 13th

Source: Imaginary Friends
October 25, 2008

Jazz Pianist, George Kahn, will be bringing his West Coast Jazz to Music Lovers on Thursday, November 13th at The Crown Plaza Hotel.

This performance is part of the Crowne Plaza Hotel’s Thursday Night Jazz Series. There are three sets: 6:00 PM, 7:30 and 9:00 PM.

The evening will celebrate 14 weeks on the Jazz charts with George’s latest CD “COVER UP!” which has been getting spins on radio stations across the country.

George will be ...

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Michelle Walker Live @ Bar Next Door Monday October 27th 8PM-11PM

Source: All About Jazz
October 25, 2008

Michelle Walker Performs Live @ THE BAR NEXT DOOR MONDAY October 27, 2008

On Monday October 27th, Vocalist Michelle Walker returns to one of her favorite performance rooms, the Bar Next Door for an intimate evening of live jazz vocals.

The Bar Next Door is one of the smaller and most intimate settings for serious jazz in Manhattan...[and]...is a perfect setting to enjoy richly textured music. The Bar Next Door has been home to some ...

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Boots Riley and Tom Morello Tour

Source: JamBase
October 25, 2008

The Coup's Boots Riley to Open Tom Morello Solo Tour Starting November 1

Boots Riley After marching together at the Democratic National Convention and playing together at both the DNC and the RNC, Boots Riley (The Coup) and Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, the Nightwatchman) are going on tour together. The famed guitarist and activist has tapped the incendiary political MC to be main support on his North American tour, beginning on November 1 in San Francisco.

On November ...

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Big Jack Johnson | 10.10 and 10.11 | Mississippi

Source: JamBase
October 24, 2008

Words & Images by: Andy Ross

Big Jack Johnson :: 10.10.08 & 10.11.08 :: Red's Lounge :: Clarksdale, MS

Red's Lounge :: 10.11.08 :: Clarksdale, MS As far as music venues go, Red's Lounge is about as real it gets. To enter this dark, cramped little juke joint on weekends is to enter a bastion of fringe Americana. Here the drink of choice is an ice-cold tallboy. There are BBQ ribs smoking on the ...

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Michele Rosewoman Performs Solo Piano Concert on November 1

Source: All About Jazz
October 24, 2008

As part of the Jazz@Union’s 2nd Annual “Women in Jazz”, the jazz pianist Michele Rosewoman performs a solo concert at the Union United Methodist Church on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Praised by Downbeat as a “star of American music,” pianist, composer, and educator Michele Rosewoman has made her mark in the jazz world as a highly original artist by fusing Afro-Cuban styles with intelligent and modern post-bop. Throughout her career, Michele has also integrated Cuban religious music ...

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