Jazz News

Jay Clayton/Jane Ira Bloom/Jerry Granelli Bowery Poetry Club Saturday, March 18, 2PM

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2006

Saturday March 18, 2PM “OUTSKIRTS" Jay Clayton - voice/electronics Jane Ira Bloom - sax/electronics Jerry Granelli - drums/electronics Performing LINES AND SPACES/ A Dream Suite by Jay Clayton created with support from Chamber Music America's New Works :Creation and Presentation Program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (1st & Bleeker) 212-614-0505 Modern vocalist Jay Clayton, soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and ...

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Gary Lucas Plays Solo, With Special Guest Lute Master Jozef Van Wissem Saturday March 18th, Bowery Poetry Club, 10pm

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2006

GARY LUCAS PLAYS SOLO, WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUTE MASTER JOZEF VAN WISSEM

SATURDAY MARCH 18TH, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 10pm

308 Bowery (corner of Bleecker), NYC $15

“Stunning ... exquisite interplay...full of energy and colour"-- review of Lucas and Van Wissem's album “The Universe of Absence" from The Wire

Check out new Gary Lucas online interview and performance at http://www.culturecatch.com, plus new mp3s and video clips at http://www.garylucas.com

Upcoming Appearances:

Thursday, March 16th 11 pm Gary Lucas ...

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Sydney bands and International Musicians Hit the High Notes at Thredbo Jazz Festival, Mt Kosciusko, Australia

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2006

The fun-filled Yalumba 19th Thredbo Jazz Festival is on again and will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 5-7 2006.

The program of bands and musicians include: Viva The Band, Michelle Nicolle Quartet (Vic), George Washingmachine, Paul Furniss, Society Syncopators [Vic], Armondo Hurley & The Funk-O-Matics, Carol Ralph's Blue Flames, The Moods, Eric Ajaye Trio [ACT], Shirley Smith's Soul Explosion, John Harkins Trio, RAAF Big Band, Bogalusa Strutters, Paul Dion Quartet, Marty Mooney, The Wizard & Oz, Mike ...

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The Jazz Diaries Just Added at KYOU

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2006

San Francisco radio station KYOU has just added the new worldwide podcast The Jazz Diaries to its line-up. The next airing will be Friday March 1, 2006 at 5:30 PM. The story/song show is described by its creator Geoffrey Tozer “as if Garrison Keillor and Lord Buckley were hanging at a jazz lounge talking about Jessica Alba, music and martinis". The distinctive jazz music is all original as are the stories. Main character The SlyCrooner is known for his trenchant ...

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Dekel Bor Trio Wednesday, March 15 at Flute Bar

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2006

The Dekel Bor Trio will be playing all original music from their upcoming debut CD Emuna March 15 at Flute Bar.

Dekel Bor - Guitars Joseph Lepore - Bass Nadav Snir - Drums

Wednesday,March 15th, 8-11pm

No cover

Flute Gramercy 40 E 20th St. New York City

“Dekel Bor's evocative live guitar playing ... a fresh taste in music"--John Rockwell, New York Times

“Dekel Bor and his band ...

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Steve Davis Quartet/Quintet/Sextet Upcoming Appearances

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2006

Acclaimed trombonist/composer Steve Davis got his start in the late 1980s studying and later playing with his mentor, Jackie McLean. Since then, Davis has worked with a host of jazz legends including Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Cecil Payne, Larry Willis, Harold Mabern, Slide Hampton, Roy Hargrove and Wynton Marsalis.

Steve is a founding member of the acclaimed sextet One For All (featuring Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, Peter Washington and Joe Farnsworth) and has released ...

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Art Lillard Upcoming Performances

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2006

Two imminent Art Lillard performances:

Friday, March 17: The Art Lillard Quartet featuring Ray Gallon on piano, Steve Blum on guitar, Nick Cudahy on bass, Art Lillard on drums at the Garage 99 Seventh Avenue South, between Grove & Barrow Streets, NYC 5:45 till 9:45 PM NO COVER

Sunday, March 19 Art Lillard's Heavenly Band CD release event for Reasons to be Thankful at ...

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Tex Allen Sextet In Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Late Night Jazz Extravaganza!

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2006

TEX ALLEN SEXTET Late Night Jazz Extravaganza! On the Fifth Floor in The Beautiful... DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA

Trumpeter, Pianist, Composer, Tex Allen is another talented member of one of America's foremost showbiz families (his younger sisters are Phylicia Rashad of Cosby Show fame, and Debbie Allen, the producer and choreographer and there's a younger brother, too, Hugh, a real estate banker.)

“Most of what I learned about writing I learned from living," Tex says. “True ...

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