Performance / Tour News

Simone and Rachael Price at South Orange Performing Arts Center on November 8th

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2008

South Orange Performing Arts Center One SOPAC Way South Orange, NJ 07079 973-313-ARTS(2787) Simone and Rachael Price Saturday, November 8, 2008 8pm Tickets $35 | $28 Simone If a superstar could ever rise again out of a (mostly) jazz background, Simone, the daughter of vocal legend Nina Simone, has to be first in line. Watching her perform shows that she clearly respects her mother's significant musical legacy however, ...

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Jazz! Strike up the Bland

Source: Michael Ricci
October 13, 2008

The sax player and the Brazilian chamber group explore the works of Darius Milhaud and Heitor Villa-Lobos in an uneven performance at Royce Hall.

Make a poet a diplomat and good may come of it. France sent the great humanist writer Paul Claudel to Brazil during World War I, and food found its way from South America to France during a period of privation. So too did Brazilian music, once the war was won.

Make a composer a diplomat and ...

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Divine Hand Ensemble Featuring Mano Divina, Concert Thereminist

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2008

Divine Hand Ensemble Featuring Mano Divina, Concert Thereminist

International premier of this unique musical performance Sellersville Theatre, 8:30pm Friday October 31, 2008

Tickets - $19.50; Theatre Members - $10.00 Online/ by phone at 215.257.5808 At the box office: 24 W. Temple Avenue Sellersville, PA 18960

“Breathless entertainment that leaves you hanging on every note and gesture as [Divina] hypnotizes electricity and manipulates magnetism to release the voices of angels from the air with his ...

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Marco Benevento Announces Northeast Tour Dates in November

Source: Calabro Music
October 13, 2008

MARCO BENEVENTO Announces Northeast Tour Dates In November With Two Trios: Marco Benevento, Reed Mathis & Andrew Barr / Marco Benevento, Marc Friedman & Josh Raymer

In Support of INVISIBLE BABY

Brooklyn, NY - Marco Benevento continues a year long push behind his debut studio album, Invisible Baby, with a seven city Northeast tour in November. The Brooklyn-based pianist will lead a trio featuring bassist Reed Mathis and drummer Andrew Barr for the first three shows in Hartford, New York ...

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Jazz Pianist Camilo Loves Living His Music

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Pianist Michel Camilo doesn't just play jazz, he lives it. He takes his musical style and passion and incorporates it into his daily life. He even likes to travel. “I enjoy it; that is why I do it. The last 20 years or so I have managed to have friends all over the world," Camilo said during a phone call from New York. Camilo is in the late stages of a two-year world tour supporting his latest album, “Spirit of ...

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Big Band Fiesta Draws Latin Lovers

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Plus, Matt Slocum, Ernie Watts, Wolfgang Schalk and other jazz highlights

Ken Postons Los Angeles Jazz Institute has a habit of throwing weekend-long bashes featuring scads of big bands, and sometimes it seems there aint a big band around that Poston hasnt corralled into whatever venue hes managed to book. Theres always a theme, too this time hes brought everyone together to the Hyatt Regency in Newport Beach (1107 Jamboree Road) for a Big Band Fiesta to celebrate the great ...

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John Martyn's Smooth Scotch Blend of Folk and Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
October 12, 2008

In the late 1960s it was a novel, far-reaching idea when folk-rooted guitarists in the United States and England began toying with the harmonies and syncopations of jazz. (Now such hybrids are taken for granted in the music of Norah Jones or Grizzly Bear.)

One of the most idiosyncratic British innovators, the 60-year-old Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter John Martyn, made his first New York appearance in more than a decade with a brief yet heartening set at ...

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Mansfieldians & Jazz Ensemble to Combine for Concert

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

The Mansfieldians, directed by Sheryl Monkelien, and the Mansfield University Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Michael Galloway, will join forces for a concert on Friday October 17 at 8 pm in the Steadman Theatre. Also performing on the program will be MU faculty member, saxophonist Kevin Hoferer. Hoferer teaches jazz improvisation and directs the MU Jazz Combo and the newly formed MU Jazz Lab Band. This will mark the second time in recent years that he has been a ...

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