Jazz News

Allan Holdsworth / Alan Pasqua / Jimmy Haslip / Chad Wackerman - East Coast Tour

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2009

HOLDSWORTH PASQUA HASLIP WACKERMAN EAST COAST USA TOUR Allan Holdsworth guitar Alan Pasqua keyboards * (except January 26) Jimmy Haslip bass guitar Chad Wackerman drums Promoting the upcoming MoonJune Records' release Blues For Tony (double CD). Tour Schedule January 26 – Alexandria, VA (The Birchmere) (this show only: HOLDSWORTH HASLIP WACKERMAN) January 27 – ...

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Nees & Vos Play Sullivan Hall (NYC)

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2009

WE'RE PLAYING SULLIVAN HALL! Monday October 12th 10pm 214 Sullivan Street btw. Bleecker and W 3rd

Sullivan Hall is a 345 capacity music and event venue located in Greenwich Village in downtown Manhattan near the New York University community. They are big music fans who frequent shows and are friends with many musicians and artist representatives. They also put a state of the art sound and lighting system, and the space has near perfect ...

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Trans-Mediterranean Blues in Five Languages

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
September 29, 2009

Trans-Mediterranean Blues in Five Languages and the Instrumentarium of Abaji

“I just can't play a new instrument," laughs Lebanese-born multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Abaji. “I always fall for the old broken ones. It's like one broken heart speaking to another, and I feel I can transform these old instruments into the sounds I hear in my head." These sounds and the adapted, revived instruments that make them reverberate on Origine Orients (Absilone Music; November 10, 2009 ), as Abaji reimagines his ...

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Violinist Mark Feldman Solo in NYC! (10/18)

Source: Michael Ricci
September 29, 2009

Sunday, October 18th at 5pm (stay afterwards for a free buffet and a meet the artists reception) The “Lounge" at Hudson View Gardens is at 116 Pinehurst Ave. at W.183rd St. (just take the “A" Train to 181st St. - we're across from Bennett Park, one block west of Ft. Washington Ave.) Violin virtuoso Mark Feldman comes to Hudson View Gardens (Washington Heights, Manhattan) as part of its “Concerts at the Lounge" ...

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Before Broadway: George Benson in the 1960s

Source: Michael Ricci
September 29, 2009

In the 1970s George Benson became a crossover star with vocal hits and a smooth-sounding pop-R and B style, but he’d already established a legacy as a jazz guitarist who brimmed with energy and talent. “Before Broadway: George Benson in the 1960s” features Benson as a leader and with organists McDuff and Jimmy Smith in straightahead, hard-cooking soul-jazz settings from the 1960s, as well as his interpretation of Miles Davis’ “So What” from his standout 1971 CTI jazz album “Beyond ...

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Progressive Saxophonist/Flautist Theo Travis Interviewed at AAJ...And More!

Source: Lori Hehr Public Relations
September 29, 2009

British musician Theo Travis has one of the most varied performing and recording histories to be found among contemporary jazz musicians. A talented saxophonist, flautist and composer, Travis has performed solo, in duos and quartets, in straight ahead jazz combos and in electronic, improvisational groups.

Despite his extensive back catalog, however, Theo Travis is not as well-known to jazz or prog fans as he should be. This may be due in part to his unassuming nature and a refreshing lack ...

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Alicia de Larrocha Renowned Spanish Pianist Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

Her first record was released before she was 10; later she toured with the L.A. Philharmonic and performed regularly at New York's Lincoln Center, featured in its Mostly Mozart Festival.

Alicia de Larrocha's style combined poetic interpretation, grace and subtlety with technical virtuosity and remarkable focus.

Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha, who thrilled music listeners for decades with polished and enthralling interpretations of great classical works, has died. She was 86.

De Larrocha died late Friday in a Barcelona hospital, ...

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Poncho Sanchez Releases New CD - Psychedelic Blues

Source: On Target Media Group
September 28, 2009

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