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Rick Foster Cambridge's Regattabar Announces Holiday Treats

Celebrate the holidays at The Regattabar, which is offering a variety of holiday treats this year: December 17 Longy School of Music Presents: Notes a-Glist’ning A delightful “snowstorm of notes” awaits you in this high-spirited holiday spectacular, brought to you by “Longy at the Regattabar.” Join worldclass Longy performers as they romp through a musical winter wonderland. Enjoy festive songs of the season — “Carol of the Bells”, “12 Days of Christmas”, “Velvet Shoes”, “Fum Fum”, “We… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on December 8, 2009 at 9:23am — No Comments

Rick Foster Latin Singer Marta Gomez Saturday at Regattabar

Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Berklee College of Music, after receiving the Best Achievement Scholarship, Marta Gómez has developed an extensive music career in the US which has placed her as one of the most interesting singer songwriters on the world music scene today.… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on August 19, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Rick Foster Tessa Souter Releases "Obsession" Jul. 22 at Regattabar

Jazz Vocalist Tessa Souter celebrates her new CD "Obsession" with one set 7:30 p.m. Thursday July 22 at The Regattabar at the Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, Ma. Admission is $15. Appearing with Soputer will be guitarist Jason Ennis, bassist Gary Wang and d… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on July 14, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Rick Foster Nick Grondin Releases New Original Music

Boston, MA--Jazz composer, arranger and guitarist Nick Grondin has just released a unique CD of award-winning, contemporary compositions. Titled SongTeller – The Jazz Orchestra Project, the release will be celebrated with a key date featuring Grondin’s Septet at the esteemed Regattabar at the Charles Hotel, [One Bennett Street, Cambridge] at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 6. Tickets at $15.00 each can be purchased on line at www.regattabarjazz.com or by calling: 617-395-7757.… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on July 9, 2009 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Rick Foster Lee Konitz Wednesday at the Regattabar

Saxophonist extraordinaire Lee Konitz performs 7:30 p.m. Wednesday July 8 at the Regattabar in Cambridge. Konitz (born October 13, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz composer and saxophone player. Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on July 8, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Rick Foster Regattabar Posts July, August Schedules

July 7 7:30 PM $18 Louisiana Red & Dave Maxwell Duo Louisiana Red is a blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who has recorded more than 50 albums. Louisiana Red is a high-energy performer noted for his country-style blues and enthusiastic live performances filled with raw emotion and unpredictable guitar antics. David Maxwell has amassed an enormous resume throughout the years playing piano with some of the greatest and well- known musicians in the blues. David plays many styles of… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on July 3, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Rick Foster Louisiana Red, David Maxwell Tuesday at Regattabar

At 76, Louisiana Red has over 50 years' experience playing the blues with everyojne from John Lee Hooker to Muddy Waters. Red will be in town Tuesday, July 7 to perform with David Maxwell at The Regattabar at the Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge. Showtime is 7… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on July 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Rick Foster Guitarist Bill Frisell Thurs., Fri. at Regattabar, Cambridge

Bill Frisell and his 85B band will be appearing Thursday and Friday May 21 and 22 at The Regattabar, Cambridge. Shows are at 7:30 and 10 p.m. each night. Admission is $28. Born in Baltimore, Frisell played clarinet throughout his childhood in Denver, Colorad… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on May 20, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Rick Foster It's Big Band, Latin Style, at Regattabar Saturday

The Gregorio Uribe Big Band is a 16-piece musical experience that blends Latin grooves with some funk and jazz influences. This Big Band brings together musicians from different countries around the world that, under Gregorio Uribe’s leadership and vision, create a masterpiece of Latin rhythms. The group performs 7:30 p.m. Saturday April 25 at the Regattabar, Cambridge. Admission is $15. With a remarkable compliance of trumpets, trombones and saxes soaring over… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on April 23, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Rick Foster Bruce Katz Band Thursday at The Regattabar

Bruce Katz occupies a unique space where blues, jazz, rock, soul, and the many aspects of Americana all collide into a style of original instrumental music all his own. He is as comfortable playing "soul-jazz" on the Hammond organ as he is playing 1930's style stride piano or… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on April 21, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Rick Foster Sax Prodigy Grace Kelly Thursday at Regattabar

Fifteen-year-old saxophonist, singer songwriter, composer-arranger Grace Kelly ranks as one of Jazz's greatest emerging talents. Kelly, who has studied under and reorded with Lee Konitz, will be performing 7:30 p.m. at The Regattabar in Cambridge. Tickets are $20… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on April 12, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Rick Foster Tribute to Jaco Pastorius Friday at Regattabar

JACOFEST, a tribute to the late, great Jaco Pastorius, will perform two hows 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday March 13 at the Regattabar in the Charles Hotel, Cambridge. Tickets are $25. Although Jaco Pastorius passed away over 21 years ago (on September 21, 1987), his musical legacy remains as strong today as ever. Jazz artists around the world continue to cover his compositions or offer up personal tributes to the man on their recordings, all attesting to the indelible mark that… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on March 10, 2009 at 9:38am — No Comments

Rick Foster Doctor Sagov Cooks Up Some Memorable Curry, Jazz

Stanley Sagov is a family doctor who practices in Arlington, as well as the chief of family medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and a teacher at several medical schools. He's also known as a jazz pianist. He plays two sets with the Remembering the Future Jazz Band at t… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on February 26, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Rick Foster Like Cole Porter? You'll Get a Kick Out of Patricia Barber

Pianist-jazz songstress Patricia Barber performs two shows 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 11 at the Regattabar, Cambridge, Ma. Tickets are $25. For more than two decades, Barber, based in Chicago, has led her own band and released a series of highly acclaimed, strikingly singular albums, dating back to 1992’s breakout major label album Distortion of Love. It featured her rendition of Smokey Robinson’s pop hit, “My Girl,” predating by a year Cassandra Wilson’s similarly ground… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on February 9, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Rick Foster Ari Hoenig-Jean-Michel Pilc Project Wednesday at Regattabar

The Ari Hoenig/Jean-Michel Pilc Project performs 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4 at the Regattabar in the Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA . Tickets are $15 Hoenig was born into a family of classically trained musicians. His father being a choral conductor and mother a violinist, he was exposed to classical and folk music at an early age. He played both piano and violin as a child, then rock and metal drums as a teen before settling into jazz and improvised music. Ari has recorded 6 cds as… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on February 2, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Rick Foster John Abercrombie Quartet Dec. 19 at The Regattabar

John Abercrombie and his quartet will be performing 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19 at The Regattabar in Cambridge. Tickets are $25. For information visit www.regattabarjazz.com. The third recording by John Abercrombie's exceptional quarte… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on December 1, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Rick Foster Morley CD Release Tuesday, Nov. 25 at Regattabar

Morley - CD Release Concert FEATURING: TOBIAS RALPH: DRUMS FRED CASH: BASS JOHN ANDREWS: GUITAR BACKING VOCALS:KEITH FLUITT "A lot of the music that Im drawn to is about growth and transformation. I believe in people's capacity to change." A former teacher of dance and yoga in New Yor… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on November 22, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Rick Foster Compaq Big Band at The Regattabar Saturday

The Compaq Big Band performs 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Regattabar, Cambridge. Tickets are $12. The internationally acclaimed Compaq Big Band has kept New England swingin’ since 1975, with a big band repertoire that begins with honoring the classics from the ‘30s and 40’s, from the bands of Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and other greats. But standards are merely a terrific base for a truly complete big band. The Compaq Big Band complements those with exciting v… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on November 4, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Rick Foster Sergio Brandao at The Regattabar Sat. Oct. 25

Eclectic Brazilian jazz instrumentalist and composer Sergio Brandão and his large ensemble Manga-Rosa have been in the core of the Boston music scene for years, with an original and exciting sound of ‘rich transparent harmonic textures… great resource for improvisation’ — as pointed Jon Garelick on a May 2007 review for The Boston Phoenix. These ‘impressionistic’ textures are the result of the extensive usage of one (or two!) flutes in combination with flugel horn and sax soprano.… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on October 23, 2008 at 6:57am — No Comments

Rick Foster Michel Camilo Trio in Hub for the Weekend

Call him a composer and pianist extraordinaire. He is a bandleader, lecturer, and visiting professor. He is a chart-topping producer; a Grammy, Latin Grammy and Emmy award winner. He is the recipient of his native country’s highest civilian honors. Michel Camilo is all of these things and more, wrapped in a human shell of boundless enthusiasm, musical passion, and love of life. The Michel Camilo Trio performs six chows, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Oct. 16-18 at The Regattabar in Cambridge this weekend. Ti… Continue

Added by Rick Foster on October 16, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

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