Jazz legends, Chick Corea and Gary Burton, come to the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall November 9, 2012 at 8 p.m. The Grammy winning duo will highlight music from their latest collaborative effort, Hot House, featuring the Harlem String Quartet.
"What's up, San Francisco? Are you ready to have a good time?" asks timbales player and band leader Pete Escovedo at the beginning of Live From Stern Grove Festival, his terrific new album that captures a live show he played earlier this year at the legendary 75-year-old San Francisco cultural venue and institution.
The highly anticipated CD by jazz-fusion legends Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin and Dennis Chambers, will be released on Tone Center Records (a division of Shrapnel Records) today, October 16, 2012.
In a remarkable paring down of his own Ryan Greer Jazz Group, acclaimed for its reinvention of the Great American Songbook, vocalist Ryan Greer teams with bandmate John Feliciano on upright for a standard-bending collaboration between voice and bass. The duo will play The Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) tonight, October 11 at 9:30 p.m.
In a remarkable paring down of his own Ryan Greer Jazz Group, acclaimed for its reinvention of the Great American Songbook, vocalist Ryan Greer teams with bandmate John Feliciano on upright for a standard-bending collaboration between voice and bass. The duo will play The Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) on Thursday, October 11 at 9:30 p.m.
On October 18, 20 and 21, superstar Chinese pianist Lang Lang will make a rare, multi-concert appearance performing three different Beethoven piano concertos, a different one each night. Lang Lang will perform Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3 and 5 with the Houston Symphony led by exciting young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado. Featuring the joyful second concerto to the dramatic third and the epic Emperor, the weekend's concerts will allow audiences to explore in depth Beethoven's piano repertoire. Additionally, Lindberg's edgy 2009 composition EXPO and Schumann's romantic and beautiful Symphony No. 4 will provide colorful and lively bookends to each performance.
Vocalist Ryan Greer teams with bandmate John Feliciano on upright for a standard-bending collaboration between voice and bass. Ryan and John spark a solid chemistry with their imaginative interplay on classic jazz compositions. The performance will take place on Thursday, October 11th at 9:30 pm at The Metropolitan Room.
Pace Presents: FATOUMATA DIAWARA (from Mali) as a part of Pace Presents' World Music Series at The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. Doors and Lobby Bar open at 6:30pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are priced at $35.
"What's up, San Francisco? Are you ready to have a good time?" asks timbales player and band leader Pete Escovedo at the beginning of Live From Stern Grove Festival, his terrific new album that captures a live show he played earlier this year at the legendary 75-year-old San Francisco cultural venue and institution. Escovedo and his band then swing into a breezy rendition of the Tito Puente classic "Picadillo Jam," and from that moment it's readily apparent the band can deliver on Escovedo's promise. Live From Stern Grove Festival is set for digital release today, September 25, 2012 on Concord Picante/Stiletto Flats Inc. (There will be a physical release in 2013.)
The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards aired live coast to coast on Sunday, September 23 (8:00 - 11:00 p.m. ET) on ABC and originated from the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. The telecast was produced by Don Mischer Productions and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. This was Kimmel's first time hosting the Primetime Emmy telecast. And the winners are...
Victoria Theatre Association presents AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS with world-renowned saxophonist and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Branford Marsalis and his quartet, tonight, September 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm in the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. Tickets are on sale now.
Pace Presents: FATOUMATA DIAWARA (from Mali) as a part of Pace Presents' World Music Series at The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. Doors and Lobby Bar open at 6:30pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are priced at $35.
The highly anticipated CD by jazz-fusion legends Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin and Dennis Chambers, will be released on Tone Center Records (a division of Shrapnel Records) on October 16, 2012.
The 25th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and 'Women, Music and Diplomacy' All-Star Gala Concert will be presented by the world-renowned Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, in partnership with Cadillac, this year's Presenting Sponsor, on September 22-23. Through the competition and its numerous educational programs, the Institute is committed to identifying and training the world's leading young jazz musicians who will preserve the traditions of jazz while expanding the music in new directions.
Gordon Bahary, New York-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, has been making music for more than three decades. Now is he releasing his debut album. Unbreakable (Lasting Treasure), available digitally online as of Aug. 28th and in an exclusive deluxe version with three bonus tracks at Barnes & Noble (retail and online) on the same date, with CDs to follow, is the culmination of a lifetime's worth of creativity and innovation. Bahary will embark next month on his first-ever series of live performances, beginning in the Northeast. His first confirmed appearance is scheduled for the Barnes & Noble store in the Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York, September 13 at 6:30 p.m. The Barnes & Noble edition of the album, available at all of Bahary's appearances, will feature bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere.
Actress, singer, director, writer, composer, producer, designer, author, photographer and activist - Barbra Streisand defines the term "icon" in so many ways. On February 11, 2011, Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares® Person of the Year.
Victoria Theatre Association presents AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS with world-renowned saxophonist and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Branford Marsalis and his quartet, Saturday, September 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm in the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. Tickets are on sale now.
