Les Davis News

Grammy award-winner John McLaughlin is known as an extraordinary solo artist, a collaborator and sideman for artists such as Miles Davis, as the leader of both the ground breaking Mahavishnu Orchestra and the revolutionary indo-jazz group Shakti, and as the composer of some of the most stunning classical jazz-fusion pieces written. Through the almost four decades of his career, one constant has been his artistry as a guitarist and improviser.

BROADWAY MELODY MAKERS on Friday October 15th at 8PM, was directed by Scott Coulter, with musical direction by Ross Patterson. The cast also includes Tony Award ® winners Alice Ripley (Next to Normal, Sideshow) and Michael Cerveris (Assasins), along with Nellie McKay (Threepenny Opera), Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun, A Catered Affair), and Mary Testa (Xanadu, On the Town). The concert featured songs by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, and so many others down through the decades to the likes of Jule Styne and Cy Coleman, among others.

Performing as part of THE TOWN HALL's Sixth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival was Betty Buckley on Saturday, October 16th at 8:00 PM. Buckley is one of only a handful of women who can be referred to as a real Broadway star and a true legend. Tony Award winner and three-time Grammy nominee, she has acted in films, starred on television, and on Broadway. Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 and has been called 'The Voice of Broadway' by New York Magazine. Her rendition of 'Memory' in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, established her reputation. She has recorded 12 solo albums and now tours extensively across the U.S. each year. She is also a composer; her first recording contains mostly songs she wrote.

Fresh off his September 10th appearance at the Beacon Theatre with Sonny Rollins, master percussionist Sammy Figueroa will be returning to New York City, making a rare appearance at the Iridium Jazz Club on Sunday October 17th, with his double-Grammy nominated band, The Latin Jazz Explosion.

Lucie Arnaz (They're Playing Our Song), Sarah Uriarte Berry (A Light in the Piazza), Carole Demas (Grease), Loni Ackerman (So Long, 174th Street) and Nancy Opel (Urinetown), join the cast of The Town Hall's Broadway Originals on Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 PM.

Fresh off his September 10th appearance at the Beacon Theatre with Sonny Rollins, master percussionist Sammy Figueroa will be returning to New York City, making a rare appearance at the Iridium Jazz Club on Sunday October 17th, with his double-Grammy nominated band, The Latin Jazz Explosion.

Fresh off his September 10th appearance at the Beacon Theatre with Sonny Rollins, master percussionist Sammy Figueroa will be returning to New York City, making a rare appearance at the Iridium Jazz Club on Sunday October 17th, with his double-Grammy nominated band, The Latin Jazz Explosion.

Marcos Vega Quintet plays Friday, October 22 - 7:00 p.m.

Tim Draxl in "Freeway - the Chet Baker Journey" has met with universal critical acclaim and audience praise during its short two week season at the El Rocco cafe in Kings Cross.

Before jazz had a name and 'world music' was a concept, a young trumpet player emerged from another hemisphere and landed alongside some of the greatest icons in American music. Louis Armstrong sent him a trumpet. Harry Belafonte arranged for him to come to New York City to study music. Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis took him under their wings. That man, Hugh Masekela, born out of apartheid South Africa, has consistently toured worldwide and his genre-bending dynamism has led to his own icon status. His uncategorizable sound comes to life on his October 2010 North American tour.

Tim Draxl in "Freeway - the Chet Baker Journey" has met with universal critical acclaim and audience praise during its short two week season at the El Rocco cafe in Kings Cross.

Lucie Arnaz (They're Playing Our Song), Sarah Uriarte Berry (A Light in the Piazza), Carole Demas (Grease), Loni Ackerman (So Long, 174th Street) and Nancy Opel (Urinetown), join the cast of The Town Hall's Broadway Originals on Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 PM.

Upright Cabaret is thrilled to announce the performers for their first concert at the Scherr Forum Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. On Sat, Oct 23, 2010, Matt Cusson, Jake Simpson and Nita Whitaker will sing the sounds of 'Motor City' as Upright Cabaret expands their unique, one-of-a-kind cabaret experience to Thousand Oaks, CA.

Fresh off his September 10th appearance at the Beacon Theatre with Sonny Rollins, master percussionist Sammy Figueroa will be returning to New York City, making a rare appearance at the Iridium Jazz Club on Sunday October 17th, with his double-Grammy nominated band, The Latin Jazz Explosion.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem has announced their schedule for October 1 - 10, featuring three distinct Jazz events. For more information about these events and all upcoming events at the National Jazz Museum, please visit www.jmih.org.

UPRIGHT CABARET is thrilled to announce the performers for their first concert at the Scherr Forum Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd. in Thousand Oaks.

Tim Draxl in "Freeway - the Chet Baker Journey" has met with universal critical acclaim and audience praise during its short two week season at the El Rocco cafe in Kings Cross.

Michael Barrett, General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, is pleased to present the second annual Caramoor Fall Festival, headlined by such luminaries as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Broadway legend Patti LuPone, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and The Knights Chamber Orchestra conducted by Eric Jacobsen.

Before jazz had a name and 'world music' was a concept, a young trumpet player emerged from another hemisphere and landed alongside some of the greatest icons in American music. Louis Armstrong sent him a trumpet. Harry Belafonte arranged for him to come to New York City to study music. Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis took him under their wings. That man, Hugh Masekela, born out of apartheid South Africa, has consistently toured worldwide and his genre-bending dynamism has led to his own icon status. His uncategorizable sound comes to life on his October 2010 North American tour.

Fiery yet disarmingly open-hearted, the new album from John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension, To The One, bravely takes on the artistic and spiritual challenges first offered by Coltrane's jazz masterpiece A Love Supreme, while making extensive use of the pioneering musical and technical vocabulary that McLaughlin has honed since the beginning of his storied career.