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Rob Mathes Celebrates 30 Years Of Holiday Concerts With Three Special Shows At The Performing Arts Center At Purchase College
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 20, 2023

The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert, a holiday tradition for so many, is celebrating an amazing 30 years of performing its annual holiday extravaganza this year with three concerts at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.

Annual Rob Mathes Holiday Concert to be Presented Online To Celebrate The 2021 Holidays
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 24, 2021

The annual Rob Mathes Holiday Concert is happening this year but will be performed in advance and taped for airing on Rob Mathes' YouTube channel, Rob Mathes Music, for two weeks during the holiday season from December 22 through January 5.

The 10th Annual TD James Moody Festival Announced at NJPAC
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2021

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center celebrates the 10th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival showcasing an all-star lineup of the country's best musicians, held Nov 5-21, including the award-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra, the New Jersey premiere of Christian McBride's The Movement Revisited, the Tony Award-winning Lillias White (currently on Broadway in Chicago), a special tribute concert to George Wein.

Jazz Guitarist Reza Khan's NEXT TRAIN HOME Chugging Right Along
by Tori Hartshorn - May 9, 2019

Jazz guitarist Reza Khan hits the City Winery stage in New York City on Thursday night to celebrate his well-received new album release, “Next Train Home,” which hit charts on both sides of jazz while garnering effusive reviews. Soon after he takes his final bow, he'll be back in his role as a United Nations program manager jetting off to Uganda as part of peace and conflict operations. It's an unusual balancing act for the Bangladesh-born, New York City-based Khan, who manages to straddle creative and diplomatic duties throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East with aplomb.

Jazz Guitarist Reza Khan's NEXT TRAIN HOME Arrives
by Tori Hartshorn - Apr 5, 2019

Globetrotting guitarist Reza Khan dropped his fifth album, 'Next Train Home,' on Friday. The twelve songs that he wrote and produced for the collection symbolize the discovery of his musical home, a multi-genre and multicultural mélange of straight-ahead and contemporary jazz enriched with world music and Brazilian jazz nuances. The album has already climbed into the top 100 on the Jazz Week chart based on radio spins from jazz radio stations while the smooth/contemporary jazz single, 'Drop of Faith,' featuring guitarist Nils, has earned most added honors on the Billboard chart.

Bassist Allen Carman and A Masterful Collective Team To Define Own Brand Of Music They Call 'Carmanology'
by Tori Hartshorn - Feb 21, 2019

It started out as just a few friends having fun making music together but grew into a recording project that to date has placed three singles on the Billboard chart with a fourth, “State of Mine,” certain to follow suit, in part due to the distinctive rhythmic riffing of Grammy-winning guitar legend Nile Rodgers. Bassist Allen Carman shelved his music aspirations twenty years ago only to rekindle them after reconnecting with percussionist Gumbi Ortiz and keyboardist Philippe Saisse a couple years ago. Joined by drummer Luis Alicea, the quartet became The Allen Carman Project, a band scrapbooking contemporary jazz, R&B, Latin, Afro Cuban, funk and fusion with a bolt of added star power from prominent soloists: Rodgers, saxophonist Andy Snitzer, trumpeter Rick Braun and guitarist Marc Antoine. In the process, the “Carmanology” album, produced by Ortiz and Saisse and featuring eight original songs, introduces the sound of an exciting and creative collaborative that will drop their debut disc April 5 on the ACP Music label.      

Jazz Guitarist Reza Khan Finds HOME While Traveling Abroad
by Tori Hartshorn - Feb 20, 2019

Severely dehydrated from the oppressive heat during his travels from Mali to Uganda, Reza Khan was hospitalized after collapsing in a United Nations office. To avoid the lengthy hospitalization prescribed by doctors, he convinced them that he would recover faster if he was ensconced in a hotel room instead. During that five-day stay, he broke out his portable guitar and wrote the title track for his fifth album, “Next Train Home,” which drops April 5.  

Rob Mathes To Perform 3 Holiday Concerts This Weekend To Sold-Out Audiences
by BWW News Desk - Dec 14, 2018

The holidays are Rob Mathes' favorite time of year - they are the time that Mathes returns home to the Greenwich, Connecticut, area and performs his annual Holiday Concert. This year's concerts are December 14 and 15 at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, and December 16 at the Schimmel Center in New York City. All three concerts are sold out and will feature Rob Mathes, his all-star band, his choir of 'Saints and Friends' and special guests Sting, Vanessa Williams and David Sanborn who will join Rob for a few holiday-themed songs at the Performing Arts Center. Sting and Vanessa Williams will also join Mathes at the Schimmel Center on Sunday for a few songs.

Rob Mathes To Perform 3 Holiday Concerts This Weekend To Sold-Out Audiences
by Stephi Wild - Dec 12, 2018

The holidays are Rob Mathes' favorite time of year - they are the time that Mathes returns home to the Greenwich, Connecticut, area and performs his annual Holiday Concert. This year's concerts are December 14 and 15 at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, and December 16 at the Schimmel Center in New York City. All three concerts are sold out and will feature Rob Mathes, his all-star band, his choir of 'Saints and Friends' and special guests Sting, Vanessa Williams and David Sanborn who will join Rob for a few holiday-themed songs at the Performing Arts Center. Sting and Vanessa Williams will also join Mathes at the Schimmel Center on Sunday for a few songs.

Rob Mathes Holiday Concert Welcomes Sting
by Stephi Wild - Nov 15, 2018

Emmy winner and Grammy, Tony, and Drama Desk-nominated arranger and composer, music producer/director, and singer/songwriter Rob Mathes returns to the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, on Friday, December 14, and Saturday, December 15, at 8:00 p.m., for the annual Rob Mathes Holiday Concert. Rob is celebrating 25 years of performing his annual holiday concert and is honored to be joined this year by special guests Sting, Vanessa Williams and saxophonist David Sanborn, who will each perform a couple holiday-themed songs with Rob and the band. Tickets are available at artscenter.org or by calling the Performing Arts Center Box Office at 914-251-6200.

Rob Mathes Celebrates 25th Holiday Concert Anniversary with Sting, Vanessa Williams and David Sanborn
by Kaitlin Milligan - Nov 15, 2018

Emmy winner and Grammy, Tony, and Drama Desk-nominated arranger and composer, music producer/director, and singer/songwriter Rob Mathes returns to the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, on Friday, December 14, and Saturday, December 15, at 8:00 p.m., and the Schimmel Center, Sunday, December 16, at 4:00 p.m., for the annual Rob Mathes Holiday Concert. Rob is celebrating 25 years of performing his annual holiday concert and is honored to be joined this year by special guests Sting, Vanessa Williams and saxophonist David Sanborn, who will each perform a couple holiday-themed songs with Rob and the band. 

Paul Simon To Release New Album IN THE BLUE LIGHT September 7, With Final Leg Of Homeward Bound - The Farewell Tour
by Macon Prickett - Jul 12, 2018

Legendary songwriter, recording artist and performer Paul Simon will release his 14 th studio album - In The Blue Light - on September 7. Produced by Simon and Roy Halee, who have worked together since the 1960s, the album features a talented cast of musicians who have joined Simon to lend fresh perspectives on 10 of the artist's favorite (though perhaps less-familiar) songs, drawn from his unparalleled body of work.

Vanessa Williams to Join Rob Mathes for Holiday Concert at Schimmel Center
by BWW News Desk - Dec 11, 2017

Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-nominated singer and actress Vanessa Williams will join Emmy winner and Grammy and Tony-nominated arranger and composer, music producer/director, and singer/songwriter Rob Mathes for his return to the Schimmel Center on Sunday, December 17 at 3:00 p.m.

BWW Review: Married Broadway Stars Jarrod Spector & Kelli Barrett Rock the Roof Off Feinstein's/54 Below with Celebration of MUSIC's GREATEST MARRIAGES
by Alix Cohen - Oct 22, 2015

The first thought one has when powerhouse performers Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett unleash their voices is that they should be married. Style, control, and range are unusually balanced for a duet show; the artists feel palpably simpatico. They even look like a “set.” In fact, still flush with romance, Spector and Barrett are coming up on their first anniversary. The married duo performed a clever idea for an evening of song, This is Dedicated: Music's Greatest Marriages,that opened Tuesday night for a four-show run at Feinstein's/54 Below.

Roz Ryan & More to Perform at Development Wing's BROADWAY UNDER THE STARS Benefit Concert
by Tyler Peterson - Jun 5, 2015

The Development Wing, a non-profit organization whose mission is to support the creation of new American musicals, will present its fourth annual Broadway Under the Stars benefit concert on Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.

World-Renowned Trumpet Player Carl Fischer Releases Single 'Pure Imagination' to Benefit Children's Hospital Charities
by Caryn Robbins - Sep 12, 2014

Carl Fischer, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist and member of the iconic Billy Joel, Diana Ross, and Blood Sweat & Tears bands, is proud to announce the release of his single “Pure Imagination” from the new project “Standards with Strings”

Photo Flash: Jonathan Brielle Brings I SAW BROADWAY to Birdland
by Tyler Peterson - Dec 8, 2013

The legendary Birdland was packed to the gills for the latest presentation of Jim Caruso's Broadway at Birdland Series, Jonathan Brielle's I Saw Broadway. An all star gathering of Broadway's greatest vocalists and musicians wowed the audience with one crowd pleaser after another from the musicals of the prolific Brielle.

Photo Flash: Deborah Cox, Jessica Burrows Van Kipp, Veanne Cox & More Join Jonathan Brielle for I SAW BROADWAY at Birdland
by Tyler Peterson - Nov 29, 2013

The Broadway at Birdland concert series recently featured Jonathan Brielle's I Saw Broadway on Monday, November 25. Composer Brielle's very special musical guests included Deborah Cox, Jessica Burrows Van Kipp, Veanne Cox, Rose Hemingway and Ken Prymus. Check out a look back below!

Deborah Cox and More Join Jonathan Brielle in I SAW BROADWAY at Birdland Today
by BWW News Desk - Nov 25, 2013

Jonathan Brielle and Friends will bring 'I Saw Broadway' to Birdland, featuring Deborah Cox, Matt Bogart, Veanne Cox, Rose Hemingway and Ken Prymus. The Broadway at Birdland concert series presents Jonathan Brielle's I Saw Broadway tonight, November 25 at 7pm.

Jessica Burrows Van Kipp to Join Jonathan Brielle for I SAW BROADWAY at Birdland, 11/25
by Tyler Peterson - Nov 21, 2013

Jessica Burrows Van Kipp will join Jonathan Brielle & Friends In I Saw Broadway on Monday, November 25 at 7pm. The night also features Deborah Cox, Matt Bogart, Veanne Cox, Rose Hemingway, and Ken Prymus.

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