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Firehouse 12 Presents Pete Robbins & Centric October 27th

Source: Improvised Communications
September 20, 2006

Friday, October 27th at 8:30 and 10:00 p.m. Pete Robbins & Centric Firehouse 12 45 Crown Street in New Haven, CT Tickets are $15 (opening set) and $10 (second set) Details available here

Pete Robbins, alto saxophone/composer; Sam Sadigursky, tenor and soprano saxophones; Eliot Cardinaux, Nord Electro; Thomas Morgan, bass; Dan Weiss, drums

On Friday, October 27th, Brooklyn-based saxophonist/composer Pete Robbins and his band Centric will perform at New Haven's ...

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Jazz Piano Legend Junior Mance to play Jazz at Pearl's September 22-24

Source: Rocket Words
September 20, 2006

In 1947, when 19-year-old pianist Junior Mance left Roosevelt College in Chicago to join the band of soul/jazz tenor giant Gene Ammons, he was leaping into what would become a fabulous career amidst the greats of the bebop/hard bop universe, musicians with names like Young and Gillespie. In fact, Mance would soon attain all-star status himself, and in 1997 he was inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame.

Soulful and swinging, Junior Mance has forged a bluesy, dexterous style ...

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The Kelsey Jillette Group at The Triad, 9/29

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2006

The Kelsey Jillette Group will be playing at The Triad Theater on September 29th 7:00 pm-8:30 pm 158 West 72nd Street (bet. Broadway & Columbus) www.triadnyc.com NY, NY $8, 2-drink minimum

About Triad: A classy, intimate theater that seats just over 100, The Triad offers a full bar, stage, lights, baby grand, great acoustics and some of the best jazz and cabaret acts in ...

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Bobby Sanabria Leads His Big Band at the Tribeca PAC October 20

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
September 19, 2006

The Tribeca Performing Arts Center Borough of Manhattan Community College

Presents Bobby Sanabria In Concert One Night Only! October 20 at 8:00 PM

“Sanabria is one of the most informed, astute and passionate champions of Afro-Cuban music on the scene today"--DownBeat Magazine

Tickets are $25, $15 (students and seniors). To order tickets and for additional information, click on www.tribecapac.org or call the box office at 212 220 1460. The Tribeca Performing Arts Center is located at ...

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Saxophonist Sarah Manning at Yoshi's September 25th

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2006

"Manning plays--and writes--in what is unmistakably her own voice"-- Nat Hentoff

On Monday, September 25th, Yoshi's at Jack London Square in Oakland will play host to a very special engagement as alto saxophonist Sarah Manning takes the stage with her quartet. This one-night only performance will be celebrating the release of her second full-length album, which was recorded on the very stage she is set to return to. The album, Live at Yoshi's: Two Rooms, Same Door (ArtistShare 2006), was ...

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Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life Group at the New School September 21

Source: All About Jazz
September 18, 2006

Jazz Presents Series: Alumni from the First 20 Years

MARCUS STRICKLAND'S TWI-LIFE GROUP Thursday, September 21, 8:00 p.m. The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance Space 55 West 13th Street, 5th floor Admission $10; free for seniors, students and all members of the New School community

On his critically acclaimed new double CD, Twi-Life (Strick Muzik), the talented saxophonist/composer Marcus Strickland (New School Jazz alumnus '01) serves up two distinct ...

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Creole Jazz Supper Club welcomes LaRe & Jazz Fever every Tuesday!

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2006

Creole Restaurant and Jazz Supper Club welcomes Four-time award-winning jazz singer-songwriter LaRe and Jazz Fever open jam

Every Tuesday!

LaRe performs a one-hour set from 8-9 pm then from 9:30 pm-12 am: Jazz Fever

Creole Restaurant and Jazz Supper Club 2167 Third avenue @ 118th Street East Harlem (6 train to 116th) www.creolenyc.com $5 music cover reservations suggested 212-876-8838

9/19 Art Hirahara-piano, ...

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Tony Adamo/Mike Clark-The Funk is Among Us

Source: All About Jazz
September 16, 2006

Mike Clark, the sonic jazz/funk beat master headlines a two-nighter at The Boom Boom Room in San Francisco, California on September 15 & 16 with his Prescription Renewal Band. Clark, of Herbie Hancock fame, is one of the most sampled drummers around. All you have to do is ask Prince, Janet Jackson, or Christina Aguilera.

While in the City by the Bay, Clark will be at Different Fur Recording Studio laying down his distinctively innovative and muscular polyrhythmic beats on ...

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