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20 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Too bad I can't get up there. I'd love to meet Ethan Iverson!

Ethan Iverson is not in The Bad Plus anymore; he has been replaced on piano by Orin Evans.

Too bad Tulsa is a four hour drive away.

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It would be doable on a Saturday, depending on my interest.

I recall a jazz club in Tulsa that opened for literally three weeks called the Purple (or Red, or Green) Onion. One week they had Sam Rivers Trio, the next Woody Shaw Quintet, and the third week they booked an "alternative" big band out of Denton that I was in called the Kosmic Jazz Orchestra, which was led by a writer named Paul Holderbaum and contained Mike Smith, Charlie Young, Bob Belden, Chuck Schmitt, Randy Zimmerman, Bruce Hall, just a buttload full of top-shelf Denton talen who played in the 1:00 but wanted something else as well. And an oddball or two, which was how I got in.

anyway, we played Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, never to more then 3-4 people a night. Paul gave us checks at the end of the gig and we drove home. I went straight to Kroger and cashed mine, because I was dead fucking broke. Paul called everybody on Monday, frantic, DON'T CASH THAT CHECK, THE CLUB'S FOLDED! I CAN'T COVER ANYTHING!

I had to tell Paul that, sorry, too late, and he was like, gee, ok, I understand, but you could tell that the established pattern for people with steady gig income was to wait to get paid by a contractor or even the bandleader, the classic "the check's in the mail" thing) and then wait to go to the bank. This I did not know at the time. Lesson learned.

So, that's my experience with jazz in Tulsa. Hope it goes better this time around, although there's no Sam Rivers Trio or Woody Shaw Quintet left to go broke on.

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Yes, it all seems like a folly. If it were a Saturday night booking, I might well go see Christian Scott, or Jakob Bro in a few weeks (actually on a Friday), if it lasts that long.

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And I thought Charlie Christian was the last jazz thing happening in Oklahoma.

In the meantime, we need a volunteer to do reconnaissance. Your safety cannot be guaranteed, however. 

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15 hours ago, Dave Garrett said:

I had the same thought. It doesn't exactly give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when a show is cancelled a month in advance due to illness, particularly when it comes to older folks. 

There are no future bookings listed on his website at present.

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October 16, 2018: Eric Alexander and Harold Mabern, Kenton Hall, UNT, Denton

October 20, 2018: Larry Lampkin, Ally Venable, Duncanville Blues Festival

                              Shelly Carroll, Kitchen Cafe, Dallas

                               Cedric Burnside, White Water Tavern, Little Rock, Arkansas

October 25, 2018: Aaron Diehl Trio, Scat Jazz Lounge, Fort Worth

October 26, 2018: Jacob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron, Duet, Tulsa, Oklahoma

October 27, 2018: Aaron Diehl Trio, Tulsa Performing Arts Center

November 3, 2018: DeJohnette Coltrane Garrison, Wortham, Houston

November 7, 2018: Rachella Parks, Sammons Center, Dallas

November 10, 2018: Charlie Hunter, Duet, Tulsa, Oklahoma

November 11, 2018: Charlie Hunter, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney

December 1, 2018: Pedrito Martinez, Wortham, Houston

December 3, 2018: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center, San Antonio

December 4, 2018: Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, San Antonio

                                Randy Brecker, Cezanne, Houston

December 5, 2018: Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Meyerson, Dallas

December 7, 2018: Robert Cray, The Heights Theater, Houston

December 8, 2018: Robert Cray, University of Texas at Tyler

February 1, 2019: Joey DeFrancesco Trio, University of Texas at Dallas

February 2, 2019: Stefon Harris and Blackout, Carver Center, San Antonio

February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston

February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio

February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio

March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio

March 31, 2019: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Melissa Aldana, Bria Skonberg, Christian Sands), Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin

                        Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris, Bass Concert Hall, Austin

April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston

April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin

April 26-28, May 2-5, 2019: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

 
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Harold Mabern, piano
Eric Alexander, saxophone

Guest Artist Small Group Recital
MU 282 (Kenton Hall).
Free admission.

Free parking spaces will be available in Lot 26 (Highland Street, between Bain Hall and Music Practice South) for patrons attending performances at the College of Music on weekends and after 5:00pm on weekdays.

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November 2, 2018: Shelley Carrol, Chocolate Secrets, Dallas

November 3, 2018: DeJohnette Coltrane Garrison, Wortham, Houston

November 7, 2018: Rachella Parks, Sammons Center, Dallas

November 8, 2018: Ronnie Cuber, Scat Jazz Lounge, Fort Worth

November 10, 2018: Charlie Hunter, Duet, Tulsa, Oklahoma

November 11, 2018: Charlie Hunter, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney

November 13, 2018: Charlie Hunter, The Townsend, Austin

November 16, 2018: Tutu Jones, Babb Bros, Dallas

November 17, 2018: Bnois King, Babb Bros., Dallas

November 23, 2018: Roseanna Vitro, Kitchen Cafe, Dallas

November 24, 2018: Ally Venable, Six Springs, Dallas

December 1, 2018: Pedrito Martinez, Wortham, Houston

December 3, 2018: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center, San Antonio

December 4, 2018: Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, San Antonio

                                Randy Brecker, Cezanne, Houston

December 5, 2018: Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Meyerson, Dallas

December 7, 2018: Robert Cray, The Heights Theater, Houston

December 8, 2018: Robert Cray, University of Texas at Tyler

February 1, 2019: Joey DeFrancesco Trio, University of Texas at Dallas

February 2, 2019: Stefon Harris and Blackout, Carver Center, San Antonio

February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston

February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio

February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio

March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio

March 31, 2019: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Melissa Aldana, Bria Skonberg, Christian Sands), Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin

                        Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris, Bass Concert Hall, Austin

April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston

April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin

April 26-28, May 2-5, 2019: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

 
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THU, NOVEMBER 8

Three Baritone Saxophone Band Tribute featuring Ronnie Cuber

$ Ticketed Event cover

 

Ronnie Cuber at Scat Jazz Lounge. This tribute will feature music arranged by the great Ronnie Cuber. Cuber has been the the most sought after baritone saxophonist for both jazz and pop artists for the last 50 years. He has played and recorded with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Maynard Furgeson, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Horace Silver George Benson, Paul Simon, Lonnie Smith and the Saturday Night Live Band. Come hear this living legend. Tickets on sale now. Purchase Tickets Here

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November 17, 2018: Bnois King, Babb Bros., Dallas

November 18, 2018: Kalyanjit Das (sitar), Gourisankar (tabla), Austin School of Music

November 20, 2018: Melissa Aldana with One O'Clock Lab Band, Murchison Performing Arts Center, Denton

November 23, 2018: Roseanna Vitro, Kitchen Cafe, Dallas

November 24, 2018: Ally Venable, Six Springs, Dallas

December 1, 2018: Pedrito Martinez, Wortham, Houston

December 3, 2018: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center, San Antonio

December 4, 2018: Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, San Antonio

December 5, 2018: Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Meyerson, Dallas

December 7, 2018: Robert Cray, The Heights Theater, Houston

December 8, 2018: Robert Cray, University of Texas at Tyler

December 22, 2018: Shelley Carrol, Robert Glasper, The Performance Center-Ensemble Theatre, Houston

January 11, 2019: Ran Blake, Match, Houston

February 1, 2019: Joey DeFrancesco Trio, University of Texas at Dallas

February 2, 2019: Stefon Harris and Blackout, Carver Center, San Antonio

February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston

February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio

February 16, 2019: Bria Skonberg, Duet, Tulsa

February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio

March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio

March 31, 2019: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Melissa Aldana, Bria Skonberg, Christian Sands), Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin

                        Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris, Bass Concert Hall, Austin

April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston

April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin

April 25-28, May 2-5, 2019: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

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50TH ANNIVERSARY JAZZ FEST ADDS EXTRA DAY


 

50TH ANNIVERSARY JAZZ FEST ADDS EXTRA DAY
HISTORIC FESTIVAL TO KICK OFF THURSDAY, APRIL 25

 Festival Music Lineup to be Announced in December
“Jazz Fest Memories” Social Media Series Highlighting 50 Years of Jazz Fest Starts Today

New Orleans, LA (November 9, 2018)—Producers of the 50th anniversary Jazz Fest have decided to mark the milestone event with something special: the addition of another day of the signature festival celebrating New Orleans music and culture. Thursday, April 25 will now be the opening day of the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. Both of the event’s weekends will run Thursday through Sunday, April 25 – 28 and May 2 – 5.

The Festival also announced that the new day will be “Locals Thursday,” which allows anyone with a valid Louisiana ID to purchase up to two discount tickets at the gate on that day. “Locals Thursday” discount tickets will again be only $50.

The lineup for the 50th anniversary Festival and ticketing information will be released in December. Started in 1970, Jazz Fest annually celebrates the unique culture of New Orleans and the region drawing fans from around the country and around the world.

 
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I'm not going to be able to see this, as I'm going out of town that morning, but...

There's also Vonlane, which is the luxury bus alternative. They will get you there (downtown Houston) in under 4 hours in reasonable comfort (very comfortable seats with wifi and a stewardess serving drinks and snacks like you are on an airplane and it's 1970 again). But priced the same as the lowest Southwest Airlines fare between Dallas and Houston.

https://www.vonlane.com

 

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December 1, 2018: Pedrito Martinez, Wortham, Houston

                                Nikki Hill, Continental Club, Austin

December 2, 2018: Nikki Hill, Paper Tiger, San Antonio

December 3, 2018: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center, San Antonio

December 4, 2018: Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, San Antonio

December 5, 2018: Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Meyerson, Dallas

December 7, 2018: Robert Cray, The Heights Theater, Houston

December 8, 2018: Robert Cray, University of Texas at Tyler

December 15, 2018: Ashlin Parker and Friends, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth

December 22, 2018: Shelley Carrol, Robert Glasper, The Performance Center-Ensemble Theatre, Houston

December 27, 2018: Carl Weathersby, Antone's, Austin

December 21, 2018: Lucky Peterson, Poor David's Pub, Dallas

January 11, 2019: Ran Blake, Match, Houston

February 1, 2019: Joey DeFrancesco Trio, University of Texas at Dallas

February 2, 2019: Stefon Harris and Blackout, Carver Center, San Antonio

February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston

February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio

February 16, 2019: Bria Skonberg, Duet, Tulsa

February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio

March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio

March 31, 2019: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Melissa Aldana, Bria Skonberg, Christian Sands), Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin

                        Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris, Bass Concert Hall, Austin

April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston

April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin

April 25-28, May 2-5, 2019: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

 
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Ran Blake Film Noir
Regional Premier: renowned pianist plays original scores and improvisations to excerpts of classic film noir

Friday, January 11, 2019
8PM
3400 Main St

Ran Blake (Boston, MA) - piano
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General seating. Pay what you can/pay what you will.
Everyone under 18 gets in for free.
 
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Nameless Sound presents the regional premiere of Ran Blake Film Noir, featuring the renowned pianist performing original scores and improvisations to excerpts of classic film noir.
"Blake has a singular ability to make a single note speak volumes about the human condition, and to turn silence into a withering cry." - Bill Shoemaker, Jazz Times

Deeply introspective, often starkly expressed and sometimes beautifully austere, Ran Blake possesses one of the truly personal stylistic voices of modern jazz. It's is a piano music that is unquestionably of the idiom. Yet it defies the easy linear histories that simplify jazz as a succession of heroic musical innovations, and that position artists on a chronology of what is supposedly avant-garde.  

Much of Ran Blake's unique musical world is constructed from a combination of clear yet seamless inspirations. His deft ear and adroit touch that dovetail blues tonalities and atonalism are likely born from the marriage of early influences such as Bartok, Debussy, Stravinsky, Monk and Ellington. But other influences may be more surprising. Important to Blake is his love of singers like Mahalia Jackson, Al Green and Ray Charles. Far from mere stylistic influences, they are inspirations in the deepest sense, and subjects of study.  

One of Blake's most important influences is not directly musical. He apparently had a life epiphany at the age of 12, when he saw the film Spiral Staircase. And he watched the thriller 20 times in a three-week period. Of this period, Blake said: "Plots, scenes, and melodic and harmonic surfaces intermingled, obtruding into my day life as well as my dreams." He began mentally placing himself inside noir films. This, as well as real life scenarios, inspired his first original compositions. The influence of the Pentecostal church music he heard growing up in Suffield, Connecticut, combined with his musical immersion in what he terms "a film noir world" and laid the groundwork for his earliest musical style. 

He was formally and informally a student of some of the most impressive names in modern jazz, including Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Peterson, Mal Waldron, Bill Russo and Gunther Schuller. It was Schuller, who brought him on to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, the first American conservatory to offer a degree in jazz. There, the future MacArthur "Genius" founded the Contemporary Improvisation Department and developed his pedagogical approach, called "The Primacy of the Ear". At New England Conservatory he became highly influential himself, mentoring generations of musicians including Matthew Shipp, Don Byron and John Medeski.  

"Here there is jazz per se, and there is music that sounds like Debussy improvising alone at night in a big room, trying to scare himself." - Ben Ratliff, New York Times

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January 24, 2019: Lucky Peterson, Antone's, Austin

January 26, 2018: Lucky Peterson, Poor David's Pub, Dallas

February 1, 2019: Joey DeFrancesco Trio, University of Texas at Dallas

February 2, 2019: Stefon Harris and Blackout, Carver Center, San Antonio

February 4, 2019: Caroline Davis, UNT, Denton

February 7, 2019: Caroline Davis, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth

February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston

                              Kara Grainger, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney

February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio

February 16, 2019: Bria Skonberg, Duet, Tulsa

February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio

March 9, 2019: Anoushka Shankar, Riverbend Center for the Arts, Austin

March 15, 2019: Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings and Bill Stewart Trio, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio

March 31, 2019: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Melissa Aldana, Bria Skonberg, Christian Sands), Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin

                        Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris, Bass Concert Hall, Austin

April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston

April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin

April 19, 2019: Benny Green Trio, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

April 25, 2019: James Carter Organ Trio, Django Festival All Stars, Jason Marsalis, Charlie Gabriel, Toronzo Cannon, Rev. John Wilkins, Diassing Kunda (Senegal), Sash Masakowski, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

April 26, 2019: Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective, Kidd Jordan Family Band, Astral Project, Roger Lewis and Baritone Bliss, Louis Ford, Robert Cray, Chris Thomas King, Astral Project; Jose James, Diassing Kunda (Senegal), New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

April 27, 2019: Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Leroy Jones, Blodie's Jazz Jam, Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher, Laurence Sieberth and Fareed Haque, Mr. Sipp, Donet Gnahore (Ivory Coast); Diassing Kunda (Senegal), Gregory Porter, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

April 28, 2019: Maurice Brown, Give the Drummer Some (Herlin Riley, Shannon Powell, Terence Higgins, and Johnny Vidacowich), Marsalis Family Band, Mdou Moctar (Niger), Donet Gnahore (Ivory Coast); Cedric Burnside, Walter Wolfman Washington,  New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

May 2, 2019: Nicholas Payton, Regina Carter, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

May 3, 2019: Trumpet Mafia, Kamasi Washington, Mathew Whitaker Quartet, Jamil Sharif, Jarekus Singleton, Cecile McLoren Salvant, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

                      Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Paramount Theater, Austin

May 4, 2019: Jupiter and Okwess (Congo), Kenny Neal, Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti), Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez, Jeremy Davenport. Panorama Jazz Band, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

May 5, 2019: Jupiter and Okwess (Congo), Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, Little Freddie King,  Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti); Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Lil Buck Sinegal, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

May 8, 2019: Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Majestic Theater, Dallas

May 11, 2019: Tejendra Majumdar (sarod), Austin

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On 10/4/2018 at 9:25 AM, JSngry said:

It would be doable on a Saturday, depending on my interest.

I recall a jazz club in Tulsa that opened for literally three weeks called the Purple (or Red, or Green) Onion. One week they had Sam Rivers Trio, the next Woody Shaw Quintet, and the third week they booked an "alternative" big band out of Denton

 

 

—Any more info on this? Know a year/date?

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Scat Jazz, THU, FEBRUARY 7

9:00 PM

Caroline Davis

$ 5 cover

Chicago's Caroline Davis has performed with various groups including Zing!, Pedway, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, James Davis Quintet, and Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls. In addition, she has received a wide range of accolades including a Downbeat outstanding soloist award (2006), and performances with Sisters in Jazz as a part of IAJE (2005). Don't miss Caroline's return to Scat.

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