Joshua Redman joins The Bad Plus in residence at the Blue Note ... Sérgio and Odair Assad join Garrison Keillor for A Praire Home Companion live from NYC's Town Hall ... Alarm Will Sound performs 1969 in Denver ... Tony Allen concludes his North American tour in Minneapolis ... The Low Anthem has sold-out shows with Iron and Wine in DC and Georgia ... Jessica Lea Mayfield is in Texas ... Randy Newman plays SFJAZZ ... Fernando Otero tours Israel with vocalist/composer Sabrina Lastman ... Sara Watkins is in Michigan with the Decemberists ... and more ...
Joshua Redman has been in residence as a special guest of The Bad Plus at the Blue Note in New York City all week. The performances continue through this Easter weekend with two sets each night, a number already sold out.
This "combination is remarkable," says the Wall Street Journal's Will Friedwald. "Mr. Redman joining Bad Plus puts me in mind of the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy steps out of the house and all of a sudden everything is in Technicolor. It's the same movie, but now the whole shebang is much more vivid and vibrant." Read more at wsj.com.
Redman's new quartet, James Farm, featuring Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, release their self-titled debut album on Nonesuch this Tuesday and launch their tour in mid-May. You can still pre-order the album in the Nonesuch Store.
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Brazilian guitar maestros Sérgio and Odair Assad join Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Praire Home Companion for a live performance broadcast from The Town Hall in New York City Saturday evening. Also on this week's show are folk singers Robin & Linda Williams. Tune in on your local NPR station or listen in live online at prairiehome.publicradio.org.
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Alarm Will Sound performs its multimedia extravaganza 1969 at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Denver on Saturday. Through music, image, and spoken word, 1969 tells the story of great musicians—Stockhausen, Lennon, McCartney, Berio, and Bernstein—striving for a new world and a new music in the tumultuous months surrounding the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the election of Richard Nixon.
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Tony Allen concludes his North American tour at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis Saturday night. Detroit keyboardist and record producer Amp Fiddler joins. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, in a preview of the tour closer, says: "Coming to town for a hotly anticipated show, Tony Allen remains the fiercely proud force who melded African pop and American funk."
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The Low Anthem continues its tour with Iron and Wine with two sold-out shows this weekend: at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, tonight, and at Trustees Theater at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday.
The touring partners made news earlier this week when they announced the forthcoming release of their Daytrotter Sessions as a limited-edition, split 12" vinyl on May 17. The LP, limited to 1,000 copies, is being sold exclusively through "mom and pop" record stores, with a few copies available through the Daytrotter website and the bands' websites. This will be the first-ever vinyl release to feature a full Daytrotter Session. The Low Anthem's side of the LP features a live performance of six songs from its latest Nonesuch release, Smart Flesh, which Daytrotter proclaimed is "without question a contender for album of the year."
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Jessica Lea Mayfield continues her North American tour with two stops in Texas this weekend: at Fitzgerald's in Houston tonight, with her brother Daniel Mayfield, and at Emo's Alternative Lounge in Austin on Saturday with Nathaniel Rateliff.
"From the very first discordant ring of guitar on Jessica Lea Mayfield’s sophomore album, Tell Me, The A.V. Club was hooked," writes The A.V. Club Austin's Dan Solomon. "In advance of Mayfield’s show at Emo’s ... we took a closer look at that album’s opening track to see what makes it tick and what Mayfield herself has to say about it." Read more at avclub.com.
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Randy Newman performs at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco tonight as part of the SFJAZZ spring season.
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Fernando Otero is on tour in Israel with New York-based Uruguayan-Israeli vocalist/composer Sabrina Lastman. With music that touches on jazz, Latin American, Jewish, and contemporary music. The duo plays their original compositions and arrangements of music by Latin American composers. Some of Lastman's compositions are inspired by the poetry of Jewish writers in the diaspora.
The duo performs twice today, for Jazz in the Boulevard in Tel Aviv this afternoon, and at Milestone Jazz in Gan Shmuel tonight, followed by a Saturday night show at the Cinematheque Jerusalem.
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Sara Watkins continues her tour performing with the Decemberists with a sold-out show at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan, tonight.
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