Event News

The UK Debut of Paris Singing Star China Moses

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2009

China's UK debut takes place at Ronnie Scott's club, Soho on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 April. Daughter of jazz superstar Dee Dee Bridgewater, China has created a tribute show to the late Dinah Washington which has become a huge success in France and has just been released there as a CD on EMI/Blue Note. China, as you might expect from her pedigree, is an electric live performer and a name to watch. Date: Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 April ...

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Pete Seeger Turning 90 with Concert Celebrations

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

American music legend Pete Seeger turns 90 on May 3, but the celebrations honoring his musical legacy and social activism will go on throughout the year.

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the environmental group founded by Seeger in the 1960s, is marking the birthday and its own 40th anniversary with a series of concerts in the spring and summer.

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy will play a rare acoustic solo set at Clearwater's annual “Spring Splash" fundraiser in Beacon, N.Y. on March 28. ...

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Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder to Help Celebrate Pete Seegers 90th

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2009

Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder, Tom Morello and dozens of other musicians will help Pete Seeger celebrate his 90th birthday May 3rd, during a concert at Madison Square Garden. The concert — which will also feature performances of the folk icon’s songs by Warren Haynes, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson — will benefit the Clearwater organization, organizers announced this morning.

“It’s a huge honor,” Seeger told Rolling Stone. “Normally, I don’t ever go in for ...

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Jam Summit: Herring and Burbridge

Source: JamBase
March 18, 2009

National Guitar Workshop Announce Jam Summit With Jimmy Herring and Oteil Burbridge in Purchase, NY July 26-31

Jimmy Herring The National Guitar Workshop cordially invites all creative, open-minded, and genre busting musicians ON ANY INSTRUMENT to experience the first and only music workshop dedicated to the love and spirit of the Jam. Over the last 25 years, The National Guitar Workshop has been a leader in quality music education. Past alumni have included Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon and ...

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Rick Dellaratta and Jazz for Peace to Perform Special Benefit for Peacejam

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2009

On Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 11:30AM, New York-based and internationally acclaimed jazz pianist, vocalist and composer Rick DellaRatta, will perform first Gala Concert Event to raise funds for our Jazz for Peace Mission. The benefit will take place at New York Historical Museum located at 170 Central Park West in Manhattan, NY. This event is part of an extensive world tour for Jazz for Peace. To purchase advance tickets online please visit jazzforpeace.org.

The New York Historical Museum will ...

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Fred Anderson to Receive Birthday Tribute from Jazz Icons

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2009

He doesn't look 80, and he sure doesn't sound it.

Listen to Chicago jazz master Fred Anderson play his horn—his tone as big as all outdoors, his ideas tumbling one atop another—and it's clear that, musically at least, he maintains the vigor of youth (as well as the lung power).

Yet Sunday night, when Anderson takes the stage of his iconic Velvet Lounge, on the Near South Side, he'll launch a weeklong festival celebrating his milestone birthday (which occurs March ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra to Perform Favorite Movie Songs in Irvington on April 18

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

WJO Sextet Will Play at Jacob Burns Film Center on Apr 16

Westchester, NY The Westchester Jazz Orchestra is a local orchestra in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local. On Sat., Apr. 18, this sixteen-piece big band will perform their interpretations of memorable music from the movies at 8 PM at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY.

Selections will include the Grammy-nominated arrangement of Charlie Chaplins immortal ...

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Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed by Bobby Sanabria, presents “FOR HORACE, MANNY and MARIO” a tribute to Horace Silver, Manny Albam and Mario Bauz, on Friday, March 20 at 7:30 pm in the School’s John C. Borden Auditorium.

The program will include: Cubauz, by Michael Philip Mossman Dedicated to Mario Bauz, the father of Afro-Cuban jazz, based on Dizzy Gillespie’s ground breaking 1940’s masterpiece Things to Come A Song for ...

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