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Marco Benevento has announced additional winter tour dates for Colorado and the West Coast. The shows are part of an extended headline tour behind his acclaimed new album TigerFace. The pianist heads to Colorado in January for a five-show run that stops in Avon, Breckenridge, Carbondale, Denver and Frisco. A week later he starts up again in Los Angeles for a stretch of dates that also hits Felton, San Francisco, Arcata, Cottage Grove, Portland and Seattle.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum is offering special guided Historic Holiday House Tours beginning December 4th through December 30th with regular museum admission. These house tours will feature rare audio clips from Louis's personal recordings of himself and family celebrations at home including an at-home reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas, A Visit from St.
Z2 Entertainment is proud to present March Fourth Marching Band at the Fox Theatre on Thursday, March 28th. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 30th for $12.00 in advance and $14.00 day of show.With a rallying cry of “JOY NOW!” MarchFourth Marching Band (known as M4 by its growing legion of fans) throws itself and the audience into a swirling volcano of high-energy music and spectacle.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum Gala will be held on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at the Manhattan Penthouse, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. The cocktail hour begins at 6:00 pm; dinner and the awards ceremony follow at 7:15 pm featuring a special performance by David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Centennial Band.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band are no strangers to the disastrous aftermath of a hurricane, having endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005, that left their hometown of New Orleans in shambles. Following Katrina, Preservation Hall Jazz Band launched Renew Orleans, along with partners Ropeadope and Okayplayer. The project raised over $80,000 for local musicians. In additional to the financial support, the shirts captured the pride and determination of the people of New Orleans.
Marco Benevento, popular New York jazz and experimental pianist and composer will perform with his trio at Red Square in Albany, New York on Saturday, December 1, 2012, with support from The Way Down. Tickets can be purchased for $14-$16 and are available by visiting redsquarealbany.comRed Square is located at 388 Broadway Albany, NY 12207. Phone is (518)-465-0444.
This November, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz’s most celebrated musicians, educators and historians.
First and foremost, please join us for and/or support our benefit concert on November 8th – see details below.
In less than six weeks, the City of Cape May will be the stage for the inaugural edition of the Exit 0 International Jazz Festival, November 9-11. More than 100 internationally known musicians will perform more than 50 shows over the course of the Festival, with performances taking place in intimate club venues and on the Main Stage of the Cape May Convention Hall during this three-day event.
– It has been nearly two years since world-renowned guitarist John McLaughlin released To the One, his highly acclaimed, first studio recording, with The 4th Dimension. The veteran guitar aficionado celebrates his 70th birthday year with his newest studio recording, Now Here This (Abstract Logix) set for release tomorrow, October 16th as he ups-the-ante even further with greater fire, finesse and freewheeling interplay.
JAZZSTOCK will be presenting the music of Thelonious Monk in celebration of his birthday.
