 News Note: Iggy Pop’s new album Post Pop Depression will be supported by a limited run of one-time-only live performances in specially selected venues. The Post Pop Depression tour will mark the sole occasion that the album lineup of Iggy, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Joshua Homme, Homme’s QOTSA bandmate and Dead Weather-man Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders—augmented by QOTSA multi-instrumentalist Troy Van Leeuwen and journeyman guitarist/bassist Matt Sweeney—will perform this material, as well as classics spanning Iggy’s legendary solo career, in a live setting. Tickets for the North American leg of Iggy’s Post Pop Depression tour will be on sale to the general public Jan. 30. The album will be released on March 18. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Tour 03/28/16 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre 03/29/16 - Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium 03/31/16 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic 04/02/16 - Denver, CO - Ellie Caulkins Opera House 04/04/16 - Minneapolis, MN - Northrop Auditorium 04/06/16 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre 04/07/16 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre 04/09/16 - Toronto, ON - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 04/11/16 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre 04/12/16 - New York, NY - United Palace Theatre 04/15/16 - Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music 04/19/16 - Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore Miami Beach, Jackie Gleason Theater 04/28/16 - Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre 05/04/16 - Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus 05/05/16 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Falconer 05/07/16 - Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom 05/08/16 - Hamburg, Germany - Mehr! Theater 05/10/16 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Heineken Music Hall 05/13/16 - London, UK - Royal Albert Hall 05/15/16 - Paris, France - Le Grand Rex (News Notes are edited press releases sent by publicists, labels, bands, or musicians)  News Note: The Charlotte Jazz Festival, the multi-day jazz festival featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the leadership of musical director Wynton Marsalis, will take place from April 22-23, 2016 at Levine Center for the Arts in uptown Charlotte. Festival goers can catch intimate club performances featuring musicians throughout the weekend. Other events include a second line parade, youth jazz competition, workshops where kids can get hands on instruction and much more. A limited number of festival passes are available for purchase. The festival passes provide prime seating to main stage performances at Knight Theater and include admission to five intimate performances in other Levine Center for the Arts locations. Tickets that are currently on sale are for packages only. Single tickets will be on sale to the public at a later date. For full details visit www.BlumenthalArts.org. (News Notes are edited press releases sent by publicists, labels, bands, or musicians)  By Samir Shukla Guitarist Rez Abbasi, pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa form the core of the quintet Rez Abbasi Invocation. The combo, along with a cellist, will perform at Duke University on January 22. Their work weaves jazz with South Asian music, including Carnatic, Hindustani and Qawwali, and the result is a wholly new shade of jazz. Abbasi was born in Karachi and moved to the United States with his family at the age of four. He cut his teeth on garage rock in his teens and around the age of 21 became interested in jazz practically overnight. He quit his band, dove into jazz, studied at Manhattan School of Music and today is an accomplished and inventive guitarist working in the jazz and world music realms. “I’m a very rhythmical player on the guitar,” he told me in a recent interview. “I listened to qawwali for years, also Hindustani music and South Indian Carnatic music, with all these influences I do not like to limit my output. I like the term jazz because it has a profound history, but people throw that word around and it sounds a little empty. It’s a real music, not a passing genre, authentic like the blues.” Abbasi also said his work with his wife, vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia, has influenced him and the years of working with her also informs his music. When asked about his composing process and working with other established musicians he said, “by the time I bring the music to the band I already know what’s going to work, and confident with the experience I’ve had over the years. When you take it to the band its almost somewhat of a reinterpretation. What I hear and what they hear, everyone brings their personality into the mix.” This combo is finalizing the third in the series of works weaving jazz and South Asian music. “With this band we’ve done two records already. We put Hindustani music ideas into jazz into the record Things to Come. The second record is Suno Suno, more about being influenced by qawwali music and I didn’t put a vocalist there because I didn’t want to imitate qawwali. It’s highly groove oriented and rhythmic. The third record, the yet to be released Unfiltered Universe, is based on Carnatic music. With that one we’ve covered three large territories of South Asian music.” It’s this third work that will be the focus of the group’s performance on Friday, January 22, 8pm at Baldwin Auditorium on the campus of Duke University. Tickets range from $15-$28. Duke students $10. For more details, visit www.Dukeperformances.org. |
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