Performance / Tour News

Umphrey's McGee Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
September 17, 2008

UMPHREY'S McGEE ON TOUR THIS FALL JIMMY STEWART 2007 and CompendiUM, BOTH AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH iTunes

Umphrey's McGee Perennial jam heavyweights, Umphrey's McGee are getting ready for their fall tour, kicking off October 2 in Michigan. Notable stops along the way find two-night stands in Burlington Vermont, Knoxville Tennessee, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and four-nights in New York City (all dates below).

In case you haven't picked it up yet, the band released Jimmy Stewart 2007 this past ...

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New Mastersounds Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
September 16, 2008

The New Mastersounds Fall Tour New Album Plug & Play U.S. Release Date Due Late 2008

The New Mastersounds Coming off of the success of their last U.S. stop in July, it is with much pleasure and anticipation that The New Mastersounds announce their encore U.S. tour of 2008.

To begin their tour this November, NMS featuring Dionne Charles will be headlining two nights at Sullivan Hall in New York City continuing down the east coast for the ...

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Omar Sosa Tour Schedule - Fall 2008

Source: All About Jazz
September 16, 2008

Wednesday, September 17: Teatro do SESC Pompia Sao Paulo, BRAZIL [email protected]

Friday, September 19 Recife Jazz Festival Teatro de Santa Isabel Recife, BRAZIL www.recife.pe.gov.br

Thursday, September 25 Theatro Sao Pedro Sao Paulo, BRAZIL www.theatrosaopedro.org.br

Friday, October 3 Jarasum International Jazz Festival Seoul, KOREA www.jarasumjazz.com

Saturday, October 4 Guro Arts Valley Theater Seoul, KOREA www.guroartsvalley.or.kr

Monday, October 6 Philharmonic Hall Filharmonia Narodowa Warsaw, ...

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Choi/Sacks Duo to Celebrate New CD at NYC's Hunter College in October

Source: Improvised Communications
September 15, 2008

On Thursday, October 23rd, vocalist Yoon Sun Choi and pianist Jacob Sacks will celebrate the release of Imagination: The Music of Joe Raposo (Yeah Yeah Records), their second and most recent recording together, with a free performance (featuring special guests, bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza) at the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall at Manhattan's Hunter College. This innovative release finds the eight year-old jazz duo reinventing both the familiar and the more obscure music of the prolific theater, ...

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Launches Free Jazz Concert Series

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2008

Dafnis Prieto, Jovino Santos Neto, Donny McCaslin, Jane Ira Bloom, Ben Allison, and Drew Gress in Series Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is launching a free jazz concert series this fall, featuring performances by Dafnis Prieto, Jovino Santos Neto, Donny McCaslin, Jane Ira Bloom, Ben Allison, and Drew Gress. Over the next year and a half, the Duke Jazz Series will present eight free concerts, featuring jazz ensembles selected ...

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Wynton Marsalis to Bring Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Purdue

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2008

Wynton Marsalis will bring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Purdue at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 for an evening of swinging big band music in Purdue's Elliott Hall of Music. The event is presented by Purdue Convocations as part of its Jazz Set series. A talk titled “Playing with Jazz Tradition" will precede the concert at 7 p.m. in Purdue's Stanley Coulter Hall, Room G030. Don Seybold, jazz expert and former associate director of Convocations, will discuss how Wynton ...

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Vilnius Jazz 2008 / David Murray Black Saint Quartet

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2008

Grammy award-winning tenor saxophonist David Murray comes to Vilnius for the first time. He will perform in Russian Drama Theatre in Vilnius on October 11 with his Black Saint Quartet. One of the most important and accomplished saxophonists of the last three decades in jazz, David Murray is certainly the most prolific, having recorded over 130 albums since 1975. A powerfully emotive and adventurous soloist on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, he has received a Grammy, a Guggenheim Fellowship and ...

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McCartney Target of Suicide Bombers

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2008

A Muslim extremist leader is threatening rock legend Paul McCartney with suicide bombers should the former Beatle proceed with plans to play his first-ever concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 25

Following his weekly online broadcast from Lebanon that denounced McCartney for his gig, which is part of Israel's 60th anniversary celebration, Syrian-born Omar Bakri told the Sunday Express that “our enemy's friend is our enemy."

“Thus Paul McCartney is the enemy of every Muslim. We have what we call ...

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