Event News

A Sudhalter Memorial

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 5, 2009

A concert in memory of Richard M. Sudhalter, the distinguished jazz musician, historian, biographer, and critic, will be held on Monday, January 12, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City, from seven to ten p.m. Sudhalter died last September. For a remembrance and appreciation of this extraordinary man.

The list of musicians scheduled to perform includes Howard Alden, Donna Byrne, James Chirillo, Bill Crow, Armen Donelian, Bob Dorough, Paquito D'Rivera, Jim Ferguson, Carol ...

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Roswell Roots Festival Celebrates Black History of Classic Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
January 4, 2009

Join us for an evening of Classic Jazz in a cabaret table setting. We’ll transform the Roswell VFW into a New Orleans style club to celebrate the works of jazz greats King Oliver, Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton and the great Louis Armstrong. Philip Carroll of The Atlanta Jazz Party handpicked the All Star lineup from New Orleans including Jason Marsalis on drums, James Singleton on bass, Steve Pistorius on piano, Duke Heitger on trumpet; Evan Christopher on clarinet and ...

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Grammy Winner Al Jarreau Headlines at All That Jazz Weekend

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
January 2, 2009

The seventeenth annual “All That Jazz" weekend at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa will bring legendary jazz artists to Asheville, North Carolina, January 30 -31.

For two days of concerts with seven-time GRAMMY award winner Al Jarreau, DownBeat magazine's “Male Vocalist Of The Year" Kevin Mahogany, Cyrus Chestnut, Bonnie Bramlett, Vince Lewis and many other notable artists.

The Friday evening concert kicks off with soulful diva Bonnie Bramlett and her burning Mr. Groove Band. Following Bonnie, the evening's ...

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Out with the Knit, in with the Wine

Source: Michael Ricci
January 2, 2009

Akron/Family were surrounded by guests, performed on New Years Eve at the Knitting Factory, which is leaving Manhattan for Brooklyn.

IT was an especially cacophonous Auld Lang Syne. But for the Knitting Factorys last night in Manhattan, it was appropriate, as the shaggy avant-folk group Akron/Family led a version of that Scottish New Years hymn on Wednesday night that mutated from a simple singalong to screeching feedback to a meditative one-note drone. Surfing the crowd as Deerhoof plays ...

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Happy Birthday! The Mac Turns 25

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2009

25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek

It's the 25th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, but Steve Jobs' eyes are dry. At the company headquarters in Silicon Valley, where he was presenting a set of new laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled at any suggestion of nostalgia. “I don't think about that," he said. “When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I ...

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Memorial Concert for Richard M. Sudhalter: Author, Musician, Jazz Historian

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2008

MONDAY, JANUARY 12 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. A Memorial Concert for RICHARD M. SUDHALTER: Author, Musician, Jazz Historian St. Peter's Lutheran Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York, NY 10022 MUSICIANS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM: Howard Alden, James Chirillo, Bill Crow, Armen Donelian, Bob Dorough, Paquito D'Rivera, Jim Ferguson, Marty Grosz, Sy Johnson, Dick Katz, Bill Kirchner, Steve Kuhn, Dan Levinson, Boots Maleson, Marian McPartland, Ray Moska, ...

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2009 Party On!

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2008

Will we party like it's 2009? Promoters are banking on revelers celebrating a new president and the promise a new year brings.

Amid all the economic turmoil of 2008, there is at least one place where hope springs eternal: in the minds of New Year's Eve party promoters.

In their planned scenarios, top-name musical talents will play into the early morning. Champagne will flow. And packed crowds will say goodbye to yesterday's troubles by tossing around hundreds of dollars like ...

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Ringing in the New on the Cheap

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2008

At Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you can hear live music on New Year’s Eve without paying a cover charge. There’s a special kind of pride in keeping the costs at dive-bar level on New Year’s Eve, when prices quadruple at seemingly every place that has a beer tap.

Yes, you can pay $699 for a V.I.P. table at Lady GaGa’s show at Webster Hall, and it very well might be worth every penny. But for $689 less you ...

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