Performance / Tour News

Ahmad Jamal Kickedoff Jazz at Linclon Center

Source: Michael Ricci
September 20, 2008

A Pianist Fully in Charge of Everything He Surveys

Ahmad Jamal stood up repeatedly from the piano at the Rose Theater on Thursday night, almost always during a song. His reasons had to do with the act of management, which plays an important role in his music. Sometimes he turned to face the rest of his rhythm section, as if to observe its progress or pass silent judgment. Sometimes he was making an announcement, or cuing the big band onstage. ...

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Will Bernard Brings Wily Jazz, and a Whole Lot More

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2008

With grooves as thick and rich as mousse, a stream of murmuring organ notes and precise syncopations, the Will Bernard Trio sounds like it should be up on the main stage at the Telluride Jazz Celebration. But, hey, it’s September, the festival season has gone to bed, and besides, it’s getting cold out there. Instead, the Will Bernard Trio will play a show in the intimate glow (and heated interior) of Las Montañas. The free-jazz, soul-jazz, roots-jazz, anything goes show ...

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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Irving Plaza

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2008

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Dave Allen Trio Tour - Spain/Turkey/UK - Sept/Oct

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2008

Dave Allen Trio Tour September 23rd to 28th - Spain Tour - Dave Allen Trio with Henry Cole and Masa Kamaguchi. Sept 23rd - Jimmy Glass Jazz - Valencia Sept 25th - Bilbaina Jazz - Bilbao Sept 26th - Jamboree - Barcelona Sept 27th - Sunset Jazz Club - Girona (c/Jaume Pons i Mart nº 12) Sept 28th - Jazz Clot - Barcelona Turkey - recording and concerts with Tamer Tamel group Oct 6th - Izmir Sanat Concert Hall - ...

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NY's Nial Djuliarso Quartet in San Francisco; to Jam with Eric Alexander Sept 22

Source: Rocket Words
September 19, 2008

New York band winners of 2008 International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University Generations Jazz Project “International Competition and Fellowship for Emerging Jazz Combos” Quartet to appear with Eric Alexander and Andrew Speight at Monday night jam session at Shanghai 1930 in San Francisco, September 22, and in concert at San Francisco’s Knuth Hall, Friday afternoon, September 26. The Nial Djuliarso Quartet, winners last May of the first annual Generations Jazz Project “International Competition for Emerging Jazz ...

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Gold Coast Jazz Society of Fort Lauderdale Announces Season Line Up

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2008

Put Some Jazz in Your Life!

Gold Coast Jazz Society Announces 2008-2009 Season of Jazz

Jazz up your life! The Gold Coast Jazz Society is planning to put a little jazz in your life with their 2008-09 season of jazz concerts. From living jazz legends to hot sultry jazz, the Gold Coast Jazz Society will deliver a pallet of jazz that includes the best of jazz classics to big band swing. Subscriptions are now available for all eight jazz concerts ...

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Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts That Bernstein Feeling

Source: Michael Ricci
September 19, 2008

In San Francisco, kindred spirit Michael Tilson Thomas tunes up for a New York celebration of the conductor-composer.

SAN FRANCISCO -- On Nov. 14, 1943, 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein made his debut conducting the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall. A last-minute substitute for Bruno Walter, he landed on the front page of the New York Times. The next year he composed his first musical, On the Town, and wrote his first ballet, Fancy Free, all of which made him the ...

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Firehouse 12's 2008 Fall Jazz Series Begins Tonight

Source: Improvised Communications
September 19, 2008

New Haven's Firehouse 12 will kickoff its fourth annual Fall Jazz Series tonight with a two set performance by the Steve Lantner Trio. Led by pianist/composer Steve Lantner, the longstanding group features New Haven native Joe Morris on bass and fellow Bostonian Luther Gray (Rob Brown, Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris) on drums. Its third CD, What You Can Throw (hatOLOGY 641), which includes reworkings of music by Anthony Braxton and Ornette Coleman as well as original material, was released ...

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