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Philadelphia Music Alliance Welcomes Kevin Eubanks Home from Hollywood to Continue Celebration of City's Cultural Legacy as 1st 2010 Inductee
LONGTIME TONIGHT SHOW BANDLEADER TO RECEIVE NEXT BRONZE PLAQUE ON PHILADELPHIA WALK OF FAME Germantown Jazz Guitarist-Composer to be Honored at Festive Induction Ceremony along Avenue of the Arts, Thursday, June 17, 2010 PHILADELPHIA (June 10, 2010) -- The Philadelphia Music Alliance Walk of Fame, a living tribute to Philadelphia's rich music history and a vital ...
Kevin Eubanks to Perform Thursday, July 29 at Casino Queen
Before he took the job leading the band for NBC's Tonight Show 18 years ago, Kevin Eubanks (pictured) had established a very respectable career as a jazz guitarist. Now that Eubanks has left his long-running gig, he's got more time to devote to his own music and to tour, and his live dates this summer will ...
Jazz Guitarists Kevin Eubanks, John Pizzarelli Featured at Gettysburg Festival
GETTYSBURG, PA (June 9, 2010)--Gettysburg is best known as a town where the North met the South in 1863, but this June in Gettysburg, the East meets West--that is, the East Coast style of jazz meets the West Coast style of jazz in a dynamic Gettysburg Festival lineup. Guitarist Kevin Eubanks, although a Philadelphia native, personifies ...
Sidekick No More: Eubanks Starts Post-Leno Life
Kevin Eubanks ended his 15-year tenure as musical director of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Friday with a song, alone on acoustic guitar. It was Adoration, an original ballad flecked with classical filigree, and he gave it a warmly dignified calm. He seemed unhurried and introspective, already pulling away from the frenetic clamor of ...
Bandleader Kevin Eubanks Ends 18 Years with Leno
It's a wrap for Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks after 18 years backing up host Jay Leno. “I don't think we've ever had an argument," Leno said, bidding Eubanks farewell on Friday's show. “We've had a lot of fun." Eubanks, whose duties included comic sidekick to Leno as well as guitarist, had been aboard since Leno ...
Dave Holland Quintet at Birdland, April 20, 2010
by David Miller
Dave Holland QuintetBirdlandNew York, NYApril 20, 2010The Dave Holland Quintet (DHQ) is one of those rarest of things in jazz--a working group. These days, due to a number of factors (cough$$cough), jazz musicians are spread very thin in terms of the number of projects they participate in. They jump fluidly from ...
Eubanks to Head Jazz Program
Kevin Eubanks, who is leaving next month as bandleader on “The Tonight Show," has been named artistic director of the Jazz in the Classroom program operated by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Unified School District. Eubanks will work with musicians from middle and high schools in the L.A. district, ...
Eubanks Makes It Official: He's Leaving 'Tonight'
"Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks has made it official: He's leaving as Jay Leno's sideman in May after 18 years with the late-night host. He told Leno during Monday's taping of “Tonight" in Burbank, Calif., that he was ready for a career change of pace, but he didn't announce specific plans. Eubanks called the NBC late-night ...
Dave Holland Octet: Pathways
by John Kelman
Dave Holland Octet Pathways Dare2 Records 2010 It's been nearly four years since bassist Dave Holland has delivered an album based around his enduring quintet of over a decade. Since 2006's Critical Mass (Dare2), he's released Pass It On (Dare2, 2008) and The Monterey Quartet: Live at the ...
Who Will Replace Kevin Eubanks?
Who Should Replace Kevin Eubanks On 'The Tonight Show'? Doesn't seem like such a terrible job. The most prominent jazz guitarist in America is quitting his job -- or as Bill Braginsaid this morning over Twitter, perhaps he's finally going back to his job. The announcement that bandleader Kevin Eubanks will soon leave 'The Tonight Show ...
