Events

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Hosts Eliane Elias Trio

By jazzman • Jan 5th, 2009 • Category: Events, Features, News

Event:
01/06/09 - 01/10/09
Tuesdays-Thursdays: 7:30 & 9:30pm; Fridays & Saturdays: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
New York, NY
Brazilian native pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias brings her Trio to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola for five nights. Featuring Eliane Elias, piano/vocals; Marc Johnson, bass; Rafael Barata, drums. Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which [...]



Sonny Fortune To Play The Jazz Showcase in Chicago

By jazzman • Jan 5th, 2009 • Category: Artists, Events, News, jazz artists

Sonny Fortune, the great post bop alto saxophonist, flutist and composer, appears at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago for four nights from Thursday, January 8th through Saturday, January 11th. Fortune is a riveting improvisor who can play inside or out with a logic and passion that never loses the listener. In his monthly Jazz [...]



29th Annual North Carolina Jazz Festival In Wilmington, North Carolina

By jazzman • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Events, News, jazz events

Event:
Feb. 5th-7th, 2009
(7:30 nightly)
Wilmington, North Carolina

Since its inception in 1980, the North Carolina Jazz Festival continues a tradition of bringing world-class jazz musicians to Wilmington, North Carolina. During the weekend of February 5th through 7th, 2009, the 29th Annual North Carolina Jazz Festival will present concerts by more than a dozen traditional jazz artists who [...]



Press Release: Jazz Pianist & Composer Fahir Atakoglu Performs At Nighttown

By jazzman • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Events, Features, News

Legendary Jazz Pianist & Composer Fahir Atakoglu Live At Nighttown. Legendary Jazz composer Fahir Atakoglu will be performing live on January 22nd at 8:00 pm at Nighttown in support of his latest CD, Istanbul in Blue, which has reached #1 on the JazzWeek World Music Charts, at NightTown in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Don’t Miss Pharoah Sanders At Yoshi’s In Oakland, CA

By jazzman • Jan 2nd, 2009 • Category: Events, Features, News

Event:
Jan. 2nd - 4th
(Fri-Sat: 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm; Sun: 7:00 pm)
Yoshi’s Jazz Club
Oakland, CA
Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders descends on the Bay area to play Yoshi’s in Oakland on Friday, January 2nd through Sunday, January 4th. He will also make his way to Santa Cruz for one night at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center [...]



Looking For Jazz On New Years: A list of some great performances throughout the country

By jazzman • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Events, Lead Story, News

We have compiled a list of some of the best jazz performances taking place on New Years Eve. Please check below to find a venue in your area.
(1) Chicago
Andy’s Jazz Club

More information about this event

DeFrancesco Trio
11 E. Hubbard St.
Chicago, IL 60611
312-642-6805
http://www.andysjazzclub.com
Ring in the new year with one of the greatest organists around [...]



Smoke Jazz & Supper Club In New York Features “One For All” New Years Eve

By jazzman • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Artists, Events, News, jazz artists

Event:
New Years Eve
(call for show times)
Smoke Jazz & Supper Club
New York, NY
New York’s world-renowned sextet One For All, taking its inspiration from the legendary groups of Miles Davis and Art Blakey, is an invigorating, high octane sextet that features original compositions and exceptional soloists. The band will close out 2008 with a special New Year’s [...]



Jazz Bakery Hosts New Year’s Eve Benefit: Featured artists include Kenny Burrell, James Moody and Benny Green

By jazzman • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Events, News, jazz events

Event:
New Years Eve
(8:30 pm & 10:30 pm): $100 each / Entire Evening: $140
Jazz Bakery
Culver City, CA

You can feel good about feeling good as the Jazz Bakery hosts a stellar quintet featuring James Moody, Kenny Burrell and Benny Green in a New Year’s Eve benefit concert. One of the surviving champions of Dizzy Gillespie’s music, NEA [...]



Andy’s Jazz Club In Chicago Hosts Joey DeFrancesco Trio On New Years Eve

By jazzman • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Events, Features, News

Ring in the new year with one of the greatest organists around as The Joey DeFrancesco Trio returns to the B3-loving Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago. Joey DeFrancesco is the undisputed king of the B3, the best jazz organist in the world. If you dig Joey, you’re not alone and you’re in pretty good company. [...]



Eddie Palmieri y La Perfecta II At Yoshi’s In San Francisco: Perfect New Years performance

By jazzman • Dec 29th, 2008 • Category: Events, Features, News

Event:
Dec. 26th-31st
(8:00 pm and 10:00 pm)
Yoshi’s
San Francisco, CA
Eight-time Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri is an explosive, unpredictable lion of the keyboard. His gift for broken meters and chromatic passages led him to be dubbed “the Latin Monk” by timbalero Willie Bobo. Since the 1960s he has refreshed Latin dance music by introducing rock licks, urban poetry [...]