Thursday, February 14, 2008

Crusaders Set List for 02/12/08...

FIRST SET:

1. Free As The Wind
2. Creepin'
3. I Felt The Love
4. Ballad For Joe
5. The Territory
6. So Far Away
7. Way Back Home
8. Put It
9. Sonwflake (Encore)

SECOND SET:

1. Sweet & Sour
2. Viva Da Funk
3. It Happens Everyday
4. Street Life
5. Spiral
6. Way Back Home
7. So Far Away
8. Put It
9. Snowflake (Encore)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

NY TIMES listing on the Crusaders...

THE CRUSADERS (Tuesday through Sunday) This crossover soul-jazz outfit, led by the keyboardist Joe Sample, has gone through multiple revisions since its heyday in the 1970s. Here the lineup features one other founding member, the saxophonist Wilton Felder, and includes Nils Landgren on trombone, Hiram Bullock on guitar, Nicklas Sample (Joe Sample’s son) on bass and Steve Gadd on drums. (Through Feb. 17.) At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592 bluenote.net; cover, $45 at tables, $30 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)

THE CRUSADERS COME TO THE BLUE NOTE!

Monday, February 11, 2008

MICHAEL McDONALD SHOWS ANNOUNCED!


2 8pm only shows have been announced and are currently on-sale as of this afternoon for Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan legend Michael McDonald. McDonald will release his latest CD "Soul Speak" just days after his two nights at the Blue Note. It's one show per night, so get your tickets while they last!


For the Tuesday, March 4, 8PM show click here:

http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=5913
For the Wednesday, March 5, 8PM show click here:
http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=5914

Saturday, February 9, 2008

FRANCISCO MELA & FRIENDS PICTURES

John Scofield and Larry Grenadier

Lionel Loueke

Jason Moran

Francisco Mela

Francisco Mela

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Blue Note Blog Series: Blast From The Past

Congratulations to McCoy Tyner, winner of this year's President's Award at the Grammys. This week's Blast From The Past is a video of McCoy playing with John Coltrane in 1965 - an incredible, lesser-known version of Naima...

Friday, February 1, 2008

Italian Women In Jazz Festival

2008 EDITION:

Cross-cultural events, jazz music, female creativity, Italian culture, the city of New York: these were the mixed basic ideas that created the first edition of the “Italian Women in Jazz" Festival, back in 2005.

Enzo Capua, a PR pioneer and music promoter known for his repeated successful work as the US representative for the “Umbria Jazz Festival", a reporter for SBS Radio, a correspondent for “Musica Jazz" magazine to name a fiew credentials, produced the concert at Symphony Space Theater with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute. It was the first time in the history of the New York Jazz scene to have an event that grouped Jazz bands with Italian women as leaders in one night.

For this third edition the Festival will be held at the world famous Blue Note Jazz club, during the first week-end of February: 1st , 2nd and 3rd . This represents a big step ahead for “Italian Women in Jazz". After two successful editions in a single day, the forthcoming Festival will be displayed during three nights in the most important jazz venue of New York City.

Check out the whole article here!
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=16837

SONNY FORTUNE QUINTET w/ sp. guest WALLACE RONEY