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Friday, 19 March 2010

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The Dorado Schmitt All-Stars Celebrate Django's 100th Birthday on the West Coast.

Written by Ronaldo Oregano
Dorado Schmitt All-Stars © Andrea Canter Legendary French guitarist Dorado Schmitt has long been at the center of the gypsy music resurgence in the US. In celebration of legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt’s 100th birthday, Schmitt has assembled yet another stellar gypsy jazz unit which includes his son and protégé, guitarist Samson Schmitt, violin master Pierre Blanchard, accordion virtuoso Marcel Loeffler and Stephane Grappelli veteran/bassist Brian Torff. Their a cross-country tour is in California this week. From Thursay, January 21st through Sunday, January 24th they perform with guest David Grisman at Yoshi's in Oakland. On Monday, January 25th they perform at the Kuumbwa Jazz Canter in Santa Cruz. On Tuesday, January 26th through Thursday, January 28th. they perform at Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood. Then on Friday, January 29th and Saturday, January 30th they perform at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.
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Roy Hargrove: Two Weekends at Yoshi's, SF with Pharoah Sanders (Jan 7-10) and RH Factor (Jan 14-17)

Written by Ronaldo Oregano
Roy Hargrove © Andrea Canter One of the finest trumpets in jazz, the Grammy award-winning Roy Hargrove will appear with two of his bands on consecutive weekends at Yoshi's in San Francisco. For his first long weekend on Thursday, January 7th through Sunday, January 10th, Roy Hargrove will add even more fire to his already incendiary quintet, saxophone titan Pharoah Sanders joins Roy for their historic, first-ever musical meeting. Ornette Coleman once described Pharoah Sanders as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders was known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multi-phonic techniques on the saxophone. For his second weekend, January 14th through the 17th, Roy will change things up by performing with his hip hop/jazz collective RH Factor. Roy's been called "the 21st Century Quincy Jones" and RH Factor 's Grammy-nominated "Hard Groove" from 2003 featured a who's who of Soul and R&B. Yoshi's promises that there will be many special and exciting guests dropping in during the engagement.
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McCoy Tyner with Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding, and Francisco Mela at Yoshi's Oakland 12/29-1/3

Written by Ronaldo Oregano

Jazz legend McCoy Tyner returns to at Yoshi's in Oakland for a New Year's Celebration from Tuesday, December 29th through Sunday, January 3rd. McCoy Tyner's powerful, propulsive style of piano playing was an integral part of the John Coltrane Quartet in the early 1960s and influenced countless musicians that followed him. Tyner will be joined by three outstanding musicians - all headliners themselves - including saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (son of the great John Coltrane and jazz pianist Alice Coltrane), singing bassist Esperanza Spalding (a prodigy who at only 20 became a professor at Berklee College of Music), and Cuban drummer Francisco Mela.