Archive: 2006

Elvis Costello and longtime keyboardist Steve Nieve are set to team up with various symphonies across the U.S., beginning with the San Francisco Symphony on March 27th, for a string of dates.

The tour will feature two sets: the first dedicated solely to the music of Il Sogno, an interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream originally commissioned by the Italian ballet company Aterballetto in 2004, and the second to Costello’s pop and rock classics. Costello and Nieve will collaborate with the Houston Symphony, the Boston Pops and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, among others, and the tour’s opening night will benefit the San Francisco Symphony musicians’ pension fund.

In addition, Elvis Costello is set to release My Flame Burns Blue, a live CD featuring the fifty-two-piece Dutch jazz orchestra Metropole Orkest in concert at the Hague, the Netherlands, on February 28th. The set features new compositions; re-imagined Costello favorites, such as “Clubland” and “Watching the Detectives”; and “Hora Decubitus,” a Charles Mingus song the late jazz great’s widow invited Costello to add lyrics to. And for fans who would like a preview of the work before he takes it on the road, the set will also include a forty-five-minute suite from Il Sogno.

“This record may explain what I’ve been doing during the last twelve years when I haven’t had a guitar in my hands,” Costello says of My Flame Burns Blue.

Following his tour with local symphony orchestras, Costello will debut the opera The Secret Arias in Copenhagen, Denmark. The work is based on songs the renowned Danish fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen wrote for Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, who did not return his love.

Elvis Costello tour dates:

3/27: San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall
4/13: Houston, Jones Hall for Performing Arts
4/20: North Bethesda, MD, Strathmore Hall
4/21: Baltimore, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
4/22: Baltimore, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
5/10: Boston, Symphony Hall
5/12: Brooklyn, Academy of Music
5/13: Atlanta, Fox Theatre

Source rollingstone.com.

America’s favorite mind-bending, hallucination-inducing jazz trio from Tulsa, OK, the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, gets back to business in February 2006 with a string of tour dates on the Left Coast, a run of high profile appearances on the East Coast and a jump over the Atlantic for a stretch of shows in Europe. The European leg of the treck will be JFJO’s first official tour of the continent, including performances at Bimhuis in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Turku International Jazz Festival in Turku, Finland. All of this in support of their latest release, The Sameness of Difference, on HYENA Records.

JFJO’s west coast tour dates in the U.S. will include special guests, The Dead Kenny Gs, who are comprised of JFJO’s own Brian Haas on keys, the irrepressible modern tenor giant Skerik on saxophones and the multi-dimensional big beat master Mike Dillon on percussion. The Dead Kenny Gs tour sparingly, so every show is a rare opportunity to witness their very own rendering of musical madness. JFJO drummer Jason Smart will also pair with freestyle poet Al Howard for a collaboration dubbed, Echoes Consciousness.

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s Winter 2006 tour dates are:

February 14 / Winstons / San Diego, CA
February 15 / The Palmer Room / West Los Angeles, CA
February 16 / Moe’s Alley / Santa Cruz, CA
February 17 / Cafe Du Nord / San Francisco, CA
February 18 / Cafe Du Nord / San Francisco, CA
February 19 / Six Rivers Brewery / McKinleyville, CA
February 21 / Mobius / Ashland, OR
February 22 / Luna Jazz / Eugene, OR
February 23 / The Goodfoot Lounge / Portland, OR
February 24 / Tractor Tavern / Seattle, WA
February 25 / The Nightlight Lounge / Bellingham, WA
March 8 / Casadesus Hall / Binghamton, NY
March 9 / Regatta Bar / Boston, MA
March 10 / Blue Note / New York, NY
March 11 / Blue Note / New York, NY
March 17 / Lantaren / Rotterdam, The Netherlands
March 18 / Sugar Factory / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 21 / Stadtgarten / Cologne, Germany
March 22 / Bimhuis / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 24 – 27 / Dates TBA / Italy
March 29 / Rytmihairioklubi @ Juttutupa / Helsinki, Finland
March 30 / Turku International Jazz Festival / Turku, Finland
April 7 / The Parking Garage / Norman, OK
April 8 / Cain’s Ballroom / Tulsa, OK

Today Langerado announces a Friday night “Sound Check” onsite at Markham Park. Starting at 3:30 PM until 9 PM, the pre-party event will feature six bands -Perpetual Groove,the Benevento Russo Duo, Buckethead, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Theresa Andersson and Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes. Tickets are only $15 advance / $20 day of show andFREEfor those who purchase Langerado weekend VIP or Camping Passes. For more information visit:
www.langerado.com/soundcheck.html

Langerado has also announced their late night club schedule in Ft. Lauderdale. Shows are as follows:

3/10 -The Disco Biscuits @ Revolution / 18+ / doors 8pm
3/10 -The Drive-By Truckers with Rose Hill Drive @ The Culture Room / all ages / doors 8pm
3/11 -Umphrey’s McGee @ Revolution / 18+ / doors 9pm 3/11 -MOFRO with the New Mastersounds @ The Culture Room / all ages / doors 9pm
3/12 -Conspirator with Brothers Past @ The Culture Room / all ages / doors 9pm

All late night shows are $18 advance / $20 day of show. A presale will begin on Saturday January 14th at noon EST for those who have purchased tickets to the festival. (Music Today will be emailing access codes to those who bought tickets to Langerado so they will have the first chance to get tickets to the late night shows) General on-sale is Friday, January 27th. More information at:
www.langerado.com/late.html.

It’s a real turn of the tables watching Ian on stage with a full orchestra performing all the familiar Tull tracks with an entirely different twist.

Welcome the next Oklahoma-bred catastrophe, Hinder.

Breakestra’s got the formula down when it comes to funky ass live performances.

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The reviews are in: Diamond Dave, it appears, is not forever. David Lee Roth

Leeds 3-piece Black Wire are excited to announce their first visit to America this February in support of their debut self-titled album, which will be released in the US on Chicago-based indie Giant Pecker Records. The band will be making stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York over 3-weeks for performances and special club appearances.

Since the UK release of their album in June, the band has been all over British radio and television. Touring relentlessly, they have quickly gained a big following in England

Photos by Robert Massie of Victor Wooten’s Soul Circus at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH 11.30.05

Jamie Cullum

This trio of musicians has gotten to know each other well quite well the past year and isn’t afraid to jump into uncharted waters at any time.

With 2003

Hasidic reggae superstar Matisyahu has announced his 2006 tour dates. The tour starts off February 4th in Phoenix and concludes March 12 in Phoenix. Stay tuned for Matisyahu’s first studio release in 2006.

Sat/Feb. 4 – Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theatre
Sun/Feb. 5 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
Mon/Feb. 6 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Sat/Feb. 11 – Waterville, ME @ Colby College
Sun/Feb. 12 – Cambridge, MA @ Avalon Ballroom
Mon/Feb. 13 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Wed/Feb. 15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Thu/Feb. 16 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
Wed/Feb. 22 – Reno, NV @ Reno Hilton Theatre
Sun/Feb. 26 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Tue/Feb. 28 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
Wed/Mar. 1 – Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
Thu/Mar. 2 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Sat/Mar. 4 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
Sun/Mar. 5 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
Sun/Mar. 12 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

Ben Harper has married his long-time girlfriend, actress Laura Dern on December 23rd. Us Weekly magazine reports that the nuptials took place at an altar decorated with Christmas trees and candles near a white tent at the mansion formerly owned by late actor Gregory Peck. The ‘Jurassic Park’ star and Harper began dating in 2000 and got engaged in September 2004. They already have two children, Ellery, 4, and Jaya, 1.

Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen will release his third solo album, Morph the Cat, in March. Whereas his 1982 debut The Nightfly viewed the future from an adolescent’s eyes, and 1993’s Kamakiriad viewed it from middle age, Morph, says Fagen, “is looking toward the endings of things.”

“It’s the album that’s closest to my vision of how [death] would sound,” says Fagen. “I don’t know if I could do much better.”

Fagen will support the record with his very own theater tour — his first solo show since high school. “I’ve never done it before,” he says. “I might do a few Steely Dan things that I particularly like, but it’ll mainly be my stuff.”

Source: rollingstone

The constant rotating cast of Mike Rivard’s Club d’Elf will perform tonight with a first time ensemble. Adam Sturtevant will be joining the core on drums, and Gavin Castleton will take over on keys. Gavin plays with the band Gruvis Malt, as well as his own solo projects, and Adam played drums for years with the trio Color and Talea.

Show details:
Tues Jan 3, 2006
club d’elf feat. randy roos ( guitar ), gavin castleton ( rhodes, synth, effects), mike rivard ( bass & sintir ) & adam sturtevant ( drums ).

matt murphy’s pub, 14 harvard st, brookline village, ma. 617-232-0188. 21+. 11 pm – 1:30 am. free.
mattmurphyspub.com.