ARTISTS ON TOUR
Please visit the Tours Page Cuneiform Records for updates.
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"The first time I saw Portland's Blue Cranes live, I walked away trying to compare what I'd seen to anything I'd encountered before. I couldn't do it, and I still can't - the band is a force of nature.... Call it "creative music" or "post-jazz" or whatever you like, but the Blue Cranes sound is steeped in the ideas and concepts of jazz....a beautifully improvised sonic experience." - NPR/A Blog Supreme
February 22, 2010 - PDX Jazz Festrival - Newmark Theater - 1111 SW Broadway - Portland, OR [opening for Archie Shepp Quartet]
Listen to & buy:
Swim
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""Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser..." – Time Out New York
"Cheer-Accident are the quintessential Chicago post-rock band... They've been exploring head-scratching, creatively fucked-up time signatures and sideways guitar shenanigans for 20 years now, leaving a pronounced influence on the Windy City's art-rock scene. Their playful musical approach is a ripe aesthetic of absurdist humor."
– Pitchfork
There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century.
In February 2020, Cheer-Accident release Chicago XX on CD and in digital formats on Cuneiform Records, and in March, they celebrate by performing at the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee!!
March 28 - Big Ears Festival - The Pilot Light - 106 East Jackson Avenue - Knoxville, TN 37915
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"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..." – Don’t Panic
Chrome Hoof is an evolving organism whose music spans progressive rock, electronic dance music (especially electro), metal, funk, classical music, and more.They serve up their sonic gumbo with theatrical flair, evoking the spectacles of Devo, Gong, Parliament/Funkadelic, Hawkwind, and Sun Ra, transporting audiences on a Trip Into the Beyond. The result: a one-of-a-kind, hugely entertaining, nitro-pop, electro-metal, synth-pop, sci-fi, space-disco, psyche-Dalek spectacle!
May 22 -24 - RAW POWER 2020 - The Dome - London, UK
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London's Empirical are expanding jazz's reach with their music (embracing the future while respecting the past) and via innovative means ("pop-up jazz lounges" in Tube stations) to introduce jazz to the mainstream public. Named as the 2020 Nimmo Artists in Residence at the renowned Wiltshire Music Center, Empirical's 2020 calendar will include a new music commission, "pop-up jazz lounge", workshops & concerts with special guests.
February 8, 2020 - Wiltshire Music Centre - Ashley Road - Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DZ, UK [ a special one-off concert with previous Nimmo Artist in Residence, Gwilym Simcock, featuring original music from both our and Gwilym’s back catalogues]
March 5, 2020 - Attenborough Arts Centre - Leicester, UK
March 15, 2020 - Wiltshire Music Centre - Ashley Road - Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DZ, UK [we will join the young talents of the Wiltshire Youth Jazz Orchestra (WYJO) for a performance showcasing jazz standards and some of our music adapted for big band]
April 5, 2020 - Kings Place - London, UK [recording a new live album!]
April 15-20, 2020 - Bath Festival - Pop Up Jazz Lounge - Bath UK
May 20, 2020 - Old Theatre Royal - Bath, UK
October 18, 2020 - Colchester Arts Centre - Church St - Colchester, Essex, UK
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A remarkable, eclectic and electric "Jazz and beyond" large ensemble, Ghost Rhythms perform across France in 2020, celebrating Live in Yoshiwara, their fourth release and their first on Cuneiform.
March 14 - 59 Rivoli - 59 Rue de Rivoli - Paris, France
April 3 - Péniche Antipode - Face au 55 quai de Seine - 75019 Paris, France
April 10 - La Maison Pour Tous - 23 Rue du Béarn - 94550 Chevilly-Larue, France
June 13 - Pan Piper - 2-4, impasse Lamier – 75011 - Paris, France [with Magic Malik's Fanfare XP!]
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The exuberant Swiss jazz/ pop/ beyond group - named after the American triple-Gold Medal winner at the 1904 Summer Olympics - continues to tour the European festival and club circuit,
polishing their skills as top-notch live performers while celebrating their Cuneiform release Tilt.
February 1- WZK - Huttwil, Switzerland
March 9 - Be Jazz - Bern, Switzerland
April 23 - Neubad - Luzern, Switzerland
April 24 - Jazzahead - Bremen, Germany [with Ed Nulz]
May 15 - Le Singe - Biel, Switzerland
May 21 - Moods - Zürich, Switzerland
May 22 - Konservi - Seon, Switzerland
Listen to & buy: Tilt
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March 27 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St NW - Washington, DC 20012
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"Twenty-first century big-band music doesn’t get more exciting
and impressive than this."
– Jazz Times
An astounding 18 piece jazz ensemble of five woodwind players, four trumpeters, three trombonists, two keyboardists, guitar, violin, bass and drums, led by arranger, composer & saxophonist Ed Palermo, one of America's most singular arrangers who draws on jazz, pop and rock tunes for his top-notch band. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of Frank Zappa, who, 20 years after his death, is now recognized as one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century, but no one does it with the ease, skill and originality that Ed and his band do!
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February 10 - Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY 10019
February 15 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
March 23 - Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY 10019
April 18 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
April 20 - Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY 10019
May 18 - Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY 10019
June 13 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
June 22 - Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY 10019
August 22 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
October 17 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
December 19 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
December 31 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
Listen to & buy:
Ed Palermo Big Band albums on Cuneiform:
The Adventures of Zoyd Zundgren; The Great Un-American Songbook Vols. 1&2; One Child Left Behind; Oh No! Not Jazz!!; Eddy Loves Frank; Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
 
 
 
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The legendary Italian band Picchio dal Pozzo was one of the few 'Canterbury' inspired avant-progressive bands to emerge from Italy's fertile 1970's progressive rock scene. The group released its first album in 1975, and is still thrilling fans with live performances and old and new recordings today.
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Cellist Tomeka Reid's all-star Quartet (Jason Roebke-bass,Tomas Fujiwara-drums, 2019 MacArthur Award recipient Mary Halvorson-guitar, Reid-cello) celebrates Old New, its second release and first on Cuneiform Records. Both accessible and adventurous, Old New has become a critically acclaimed 2019 jazz favorite, reviewed in numerous publications worldwide. The disc is in numerous Best Albums of 2019 lists worldwide, including being voted the #3 album of the year in the 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll!
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"Schnellertollermeier marries brutality to avant-garde rock and jazz. A classic power trio from Switzerland, the band plays with punk fury and dazzling technical dexterity to create booming, bone-rattling music that stalks, confronts and astonishes."
– The Wall Street Journal
The brutal-jazz power trio Schnellertollermeier doesn't screw around. Their uncompromising attitude is even apparent before you hear a note of their music -- it's right there in that deliberate tongue-twister of a name. Their fresh and uncompromising mix of jazz, punk, rock, sound and free improvised music, combined with great musicianship, interplay and intense energy, has awed audiences at festivals of jazz, rock, pop and experimental music worldwide. In 2020, the Swiss group brings its singular music to new places: INDIA!
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UK'S legendary Soft Machine [John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Roy Babbington, John Marshall] continue to bring their music to audiences world wide, as the band's 21st century global tour rolls on!
2020 SOUTH AMERICA TOUR
June 6 - Teatro Caupolicán - Santiago, Chile
[more South American dates soon]
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THUMBSCREW
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ZEVIOUS
"If your thing musically is the prototypical, gnarly, and loud instrumental power trio, then Zevious should be right up your alley. Led by new electric guitar hero Mike Eber, this band should wipe the floor with any comparable group that dares to perform with such a bold, in-your-face posture. ...With brother/drummer Jeff Eber and bassist Johnny DeBlase, Zevious makes inroads toward establishing a new fusion amalgam... Everything here is short, concise, and to the point." –ALL MUSIC GUIDE
March 26 - Metro Gallery - 1700 North Charles St - Baltimore, MD [with Dysrhythmia & Carl Gene]
March 27 - Wonderland - 1727 E Main St - Richmond, Virginia 23219 [with Dysrhythmia]
March 28 - Milkboy - 1100 Chestnut St - Philadelphia, PA [with Dysrhythmia & Horrendous]
Listen to & buy:
After the Air Raid, Passing Through the Wall
 
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