Event News

Vision Festival to Host Cancelled Tonic Gigs at Clemente Soto Velez

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2007

What: Vision Tonic

Time: sets at 7:30pm and 9:30pm

Place: Clemente Soto Velez LES Gallery

107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY

F or J,M,Z to Delancey-Essex Street

Tickets: $10 per set / one drink minimum

More Info: 212.696.6681 New York, NY - Arts for Art responds to the closing of Tonic with a concert series based on Tonic's cancellations. On seven nights in April and May, musicians who were scheduled to play at Tonic, will now be playing one block ...

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For Those We Love: An Alzheimers Benefit Concert, NYC, April 12th

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2007

For one night only, NEA Jazz Master and 9 time Grammy winner Paquito D'Rivera, vocalists Jane Monheit and Louise Rogers, as well as the Grammy award winning vocal group New York Voices, will perform on the same stage in a special concert to benefit the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter. The concert, “For Those We Love," was conceived by Ms. Rogers and Peter Eldridge (of New York Voices) and will take place on Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 7:30 ...

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Dave Allen Quartet at 55 Bar April 9th

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2007

Dave Allen - guitar/compositions Seamus Blake - sax Drew Gress - bass Mark Ferber - drums 55 Bar April 9th at 10pm 55 Christopher St off 7th Ave, NYC “Dave Allen makes a fiery and eloquent showing with Untold Stories on Fresh Sound Records. Allen brings daunting chops, full-bodied tone and melodic sensitivity to the table on this all-original debut set." --David Adler - Jazz Times Magazine, March 2006 “A number of ...

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Lennie Tristano Symposium at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute on April 15, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2007

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The Atmos Trio Debuts in Downtown Vallejo

Source: Listen & Be Heard
April 3, 2007

Saturday April 7, 9pm-midnight $10 Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe 818 Marin Street Downtown Vallejo, 94590 707-554-4540 When Tony and I first started presenting Jazz at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe a couple years ago now, we were the ones making all the phone calls and convincing musicians to play in our venue for a new audience. Now, after many a Saturday featuring jazz greats like Babatunde Lea, Howard Wiley, ...

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Sultry Ladies and Red Hot Mamas Encore Performance in April 7 Grass Valley, CA

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2007

Community Players and The Center For The Arts Presents an Encore performance of

Sultry Ladies and Red Hot Mamas “The Return of the Torch Singers"

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

This highly acclaimed review, conceived and directed by Margot Malone, features 14 of Nevada County's finest vocalists re-creating an era of steamy supper club chanteuses, and bawdy roadhouse divas, singing “torch songs" from the 1930's to 1960's. This 2 hour show, filled with ...

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King Crimson Drummer Joins the Fun at 33 1/3 PHX

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2007

Drummer Pat Mastelotto will be joining in the fun and maddness of 33 1/3 PHX.

33 1/3 PHX: An event designed to promote live improvised music in a world becoming blander from homogenized and canned music. This is magic that can only happen when musicians are in the same room together jamming. The energy created from improvisational music compirises some of the best live recordings of all time, and this event promises to be one of the best Phoenix has ...

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Babatunde Lea Will Give a Vallejo Concert March 31, 2007 at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café

Source: Listen & Be Heard
March 30, 2007

Babatunde Lea will give a Vallejo Concert March 31, 2007 at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café. He will be accompanied by Glen Pearson on piano and a musician to be announced on upright bass. 818 Marin Street. Phone: 707-554-4840

Babatunde Lea on Education and Appreciation of Jazz and the Arts in Vallejo By martha mims

World renowned jazz percussionist Babatunde Lea, and his wife Dr. Virginia Lea, have been ...

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