Elvis playing BENEFITs , NY , Sept. 17th, 20, 24th '05

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:53 pm

http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op ... =0&thold=0

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES
HIGHER GROUND HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT CONCERT -
WYNTON MARSALIS, BILL COSBY, PETER CINCOTTI, ELVIS COSTELLO, PAQUITO D’RIVERA, ABBEY LINCOLN, DIANA KRALL, JON HENDRICKS AND MORE TBA!

SEPTEMBER 17 at 7pm
ROSE THEATER, FREDERICK P. ROSE HALL, NEW YORK CITY

BROADCAST ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, XM SATELLITE RADIO,
WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM, AND OTHER BROADCAST PARTNERS TBA
CD will be produced and released by Blue Note Records with all profits going to relief funds

New York, NY (September 2, 2005) Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced plans to produce the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert on Saturday, September 17 at 7pm at Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th Street in New York City. The concert will seek to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Bill Cosby will host the concert and Wynton Marsalis Peter Cincotti, Elvis Costello, Paquito D’Rivera, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Jon Hendricks and more tba.

XM Satellite Radio will carry this concert live on their network from coast to coast on channel 70, the Real Jazz channel. Higher Ground will also be broadcast live via radio partner WBGO Jazz88.3FM in the New York City area and offered nationally and internationally via National Public Radio and its 807 member stations in the US, NPR Worldwide, and streamed live on http://www.npr.org, http://www.wbgo.org, http://www.xmradio.com. More broadcast information to follow. The event will be recorded by Jazz at Lincoln Center and a CD will be produced and released by Blue Note Records with all profits going to relief funds.

Concert tickets will be available beginning on September 8th at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office at Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 or via http://www.jalc.org. CenterCharge
service fees will be donated to hurricane relief efforts. Ticket prices are $50, $100, $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown and Jazz at Lincoln Center board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2005-06 season. In October 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. For more information, visit http://www.jalc.org.

*Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center makes a statement about the devastation in his hometown of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina:

New Orleans is the most unique of American cities because it is the only city in the world that created its own full culture – architecture, music and festive ceremonies. It’s of singular importance to the United States of America because it was the original melting pot with a mixture of Spanish, French, British, West African and American people living in the same city. The collision of these cultures created jazz and jazz is important because it’s the only art form that objectifies the fundamental principals of American democracy. That’s why it swept the country and the world representing the best of the United States.

New Orleanians are blues people. We are resilient, so we are sure that our city will come back. This tragedy, however, provides an opportunity for the American people to demonstrate to ourselves and to the world that we are one nation determined to overcome our legacies of injustices based on race and class. At this time all New Orleanians need the nation to unite in a deafening crescendo of affirmation to silence that desperate cry that is this disaster.

We need people with their prayers, their pocketbooks, and above all their sense of purpose to show the world just who the modern American is and then we’ll put our city back together in even greater fashion. This is gut check time for all of us as Americans.

In a country with the most incredible resources in the world we need the ingenuity of our best engineers to put the cultural heart of our nation back together. To put it together with 2005 technical expertise and with 2005 social consciousness, which means without accommodating the ignorance of racism and the deplorable conditions of poverty, and lack of education that have been allowed to fester in many great American cities since slavery.

We’re only as civilized as our level of hospitality. Let’s demonstrate to the world that what actually makes America the most powerful nation on earth is not guns, pornography and material wealth but transcendent and abiding soul, something perhaps we have lost a grip on, and this catastrophe gives us a great opportunity to handle up on.

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For Immediate Release: 9/2/05
*Statement by Wynton Marsalis on New Orleans below.
For More Information, Contact:
MARY FIANCE FUSS, Director, Public Relations (212) 258-9829 or via email mfuss@jalc.org
ZOOEY TIDAL, Assistant Director, Public Relations (212) 258.9821 or via email ztidal@jalc.org

Listing information:
Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Event: Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
Hosted by Bill Cosby and featuring Wynton Marsalis, Peter Cincotti, Elvis Costello, Paquito D’Rivera, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Jon Hendricks and many more tba!
Dates/Times: Saturday, September 17, 2005 at 7:00pm
Location: Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $50, $100, $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000
AVAILABLE AS OF SEPTEMBER 8TH at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall box office on
Broadway at 60th Street (open Monday – Saturday, 10am-8:30pm and Sunday 11am-8:30pm), CenterCharge at 212-721-6500 or via http://www.jalc.org

High resolution, downloadable photos available at http://www.jalc.org/presenters/images/index.html

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:20 pm

C'on Elvis, write some new songs!

scielle · Post by **scielle** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:35 pm

The concert will be televised on PBS:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/sit ... ewsLang=en

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:06 pm

Two more benefit appearances by Elvis -

Arts for Art, Inc. and the Angel Orensanz Foundation present
Vision Artists for New Orleans
A Jazz and Creative Music All-Star Benefit for the Artists of New
Orleans
Tuesday September 20, 2005 5:30 PM

The order of appearances:
5:30 pm The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and friends
* Masada John Zorn and Dave Douglas
* Tri-Factor, w/ Hamiet Bluiett, Billy Bang & Kahil El-Zabar
* Bill Dixon (solo trumpet)
* Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Whit Dickey Patricia Nicholson
* Henry Grimes, Oliver Lake, Ted Daniel, Cooper-Moore
* Kidd Jordan, Clyde Kerr, J.D. Parran, Reggie Workman, Kali Z.
Fasteau,
Alvin Fielder
* Muhal Richard Abrams (solo piano)
* Jazz Passengers with Deborah Harry and Elvis Costello
* Kidd Jordan, William Parker, Roy Campbell. Hamid Drake
* Amiri & Amina Baraka
* Yo La Tengo w/ Other Dimensions in Music

Emcees - Steve Buscemi, Steve Dalachinsky & Patricia Nicholson
each performance will be from 10mins to 30mins in length

Ticket Info
Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk St (just S. Of Houston)
5:30pm to midnight, Tickets $30 only at the door.

Proceeds from the event will go to New Orleans artists.

http://www.orensanz.org/
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The New Yorker hosts an evening of words and music from New Orleans and
the
Delta. Performers and readers will include Lou Reed, Elvis Costello,
Woody
Allen, Buckwheat Zydeco, Little Queenie, The ReBirth Brass Band, Kevin
Kline, Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, and others. The New Yorker will
donate
all proceeds from this event to the American Red Cross, and Condé Nast
Publications, Inc., will match the donation. Ticketmaster had kindly
agreed
to waive all service charges for this event.
US $50.00 - US $250.00

Internet Onsale Info
Onsale to General Public:
Mon, 09/12/05 09:00 AM EDT

PARTING THE WATERS
HURRICANE KATRINA BENEFIT

TOWN HALL
123 WEST 43RD ST,NYC
SAT SEP 24, 2005 7:30PM

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/03003 ... rcatid=104

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:50 am

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... INT-DC.XML

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Toussaint also got a call from Elvis Costello, who invited him to join "Wynton (Marsalis) and the guys" at a September 17 benefit concert in New York.

Q: Can you tell me about the phone call from Elvis Costello?

Toussaint : We had a good, long conversation. He's a very dear man. He knows so much about our musical history. I think he knows as much about my songs as I do. Maybe more. He wants me to sing "Freedom for the Stallion" at the concert.

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http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/mu ... usic-print

The benefit at Madison Square Garden (Tuesday September 20 ) will feature sets from Elton John, who has donated his crew, sound and lighting equipment for the show, Jimmy Buffett and a reunited Simon & Garfunkel. In a salute to New Orleans' musical contributions, Elvis Costello and wife Diana Krall will play with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band; Lenny Kravitz and Ry Cooder will perform with Buckwheat Zydeco; and Bette Midler will join the Dixie Cups. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Allen Toussaint, who also lost his New Orleans home in the storm, will perform with Buffett and Cyndi Lauper.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:54 am

johnfoyle wrote:http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... INT-DC.XML

( extract)

Toussaint also got a call from Elvis Costello, who invited him to join "Wynton (Marsalis) and the guys" at a September 17 benefit concert in New York.

Q: Can you tell me about the phone call from Elvis Costello?

Toussaint : We had a good, long conversation. He's a very dear man. He knows so much about our musical history. I think he knows as much about my songs as I do. Maybe more. He wants me to sing "Freedom for the Stallion" at the concert.

Ayako, on the eclistserv, writes

Elvis sang a heartbreaking version of 'Freedom for the Stallion'
with Allen Toussaint after making some comments on New Orleans
and the goverment's policy, etc. It was wonderful.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:03 pm

Link to Costello / 'Higher Ground,' a Show for Hurricane Relief recording

see
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4837922

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:09 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ ... 612120.jpg

Reuters - Sun Sep 18,12:02 AM ET
Elvis Costello performs at the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit in New York September 17, 2005. The concert featured jazz musicians and was arranged to raise funds to support victims of Hurricane Kartina in New Orleans.

stormwarning · Post by **stormwarning** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:03 am

Thank you again Mr. Foyle

Which software should I use to capture the track?

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:40 am

Jill has saved us all the bother by providing the audio from the tv broadcast here

http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1WNK ... DW2JETFP79

and here's a donations link

https://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/Hig ... trina_.asp

stormwarning · Post by **stormwarning** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:12 am

Thank you again Mr. Foyle

Which software should I use to capture the track?

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:59 am

Click on the yousendit link aand it will start downloading for you after 5 seconds. It'll ask you where you want it saved to, so line up the folder you want it saved to, and click on Save.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:21 pm

The 20th concert is being offered on pay-per-view on a lot of sattellitte and cable systems.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:56 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/arts/ ... 0tous.html
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In recognition of Mr. Toussaint's centrality to the New Orleans music scene, his music will be featured during this evening's Hurricane Katrina benefit concert at Madison Square Garden. Mr. Toussaint will perform, his band will back up other performers, and many artists - Jimmy Buffett, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Cyril Neville, Art Neville, Paul Simon and Irma Thomas - will sing his songs.

While Mr. Toussaint is not a household name, the breadth of his songwriting and the range of his compositions are undeniable, if sometimes overlooked. Mr. Costello, an admirer, said on Sunday that he was baffled that Mr. Toussaint's vast and varied oeuvre is often omitted when people refer to "the great American songbook."

Performing solo in a hurricane benefit at Joe's Pub on Sunday - a second performance is scheduled for next Sunday - Mr. Toussaint seemed taken aback by the repeated standing ovations offered him by a crowd that included Mr. Costello.

Staring at the audience, raising his eyebrows and smiling ever so slightly, he inquired in his velvety voice, "Is this because of the flood?"

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:26 pm

Just thought I'd bump this up one more time as it's coming on in less than two hours and it's obviously for a good cause and quite likely a really good show.

It looks like most of the satellite/cable systems are offering it (mine, Dish Network did) and, though ordering it can be complicated, this looks like a bargain at $20.00. My DVR is already buzzing -- the block of time they have reserved for this is, I think, six hours! At least some of that is going to be a doozy, I think.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:03 am

Here's the website for last nights show, we await reports.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:09 am

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=3877172&nav=51s7

NEW YORK

Jimmy Buffett said egos were checked at the door.

Allen Toussaint (too-SANT') said he's lost everything in his New Orleans home to floodwaters but that he's eager to go back and start over.

John Fogerty said sending money for hurricane relief would not have been enough for him.

All three were among the galaxy of stars playing sold-out Katrina relief benefits last night at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in New York. The concert was called "From the Big Apple to the Big Easy."

Among the others on the bill: Simon and Garfunkel, Bette Midler, Diana Krall and Lenny Kravitz, along with New Orleans fixtures Ry Cooder, Buckwheat Zydeco, Irma Thomas and the Neville Brothers.

Elvis Costello says there's been a wonderful spirit among musicians responding to the calamity.

Copyright 2005 Associated Press

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:44 am

Watched the whole concert (5+ hours) on pay-per-view. If anybody else watched and enjoyed the New Orleans musicians, you will never have to wonder why people choose to live there. Most of the artists (Rebirth Brass Band, Snooks Eaglin, Kermit Ruffins, Irma Thomas, etc.) could be seen weekly in New Orleans for 5-10 dollars. Kermit, my favorite, has played every Thursday at Vaughn's (deep in the 9th Ward, now destroyed), for as long as I can remember. Not only is the show great, but Kermit cooks up Red beans and jambalaya and serves it from the back of his truck when the band is on break! The ending sequence with the Meters, Nevilles, Dirty Dozen, Rebirth, Dave Bartholemew and more, had me crying with joy, just to hear that funky, gritty, beautifully disonant noise that I associate so closely with my home.

Other highlights:
* Aaron Neville's reading of 'A Change is Gonna Come' had the first tears from last night- astonishing and gorgeous.

* Everything Allen Toussaint said, played, or did. This gracious, elegant gentleman is the epitome of class and talent. One time he parked his car outside of my apartment to go into the grocery. Here he was, on a Tuesday afternoon, in his suit and tie, going gorcery shopping. I ran out and asked him to sign my 'Spike' CD, which he graciously did, sharing stories of Elvis while he did so.

* Jimmy Buffet and Dave Matthews on 'Heart of Gold'. I'm not a Buffet fan particularly, but he truly loves New Orleans and spent formative years there.

* Simon and Garfunkel were a little rough, but Bridge Over Troubled Water was too perfect.

* Musical highlight was John Fogerty who played a blazing, energetic, and heartfelt set that included Born on the Bayou, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Chooglin', and Proud Mary. Simply amazing.

* Kermit, the Dirty Dozen, Trombone Shorty, and Dave Bartholemew on 'St. James Infirmiry'- breathtaking, and more tears from me.

* The Dixie Cups- still lovely after all these years. Irma Thomas and Cyndi Lauper singing with Toussaint.

* Lenny Kravitz, buckwheat Zydeco, and Ry Cooder doing the old blues classic, When the Levee Breaks with Kravitz on vocals.

* Our man lost his way a little on the Monkey, but God bless him for all of the benefits he's been involved in. Ms. Krall did a great version of Walkin' with its composer, Dave Bartholemew.

* The only Lowlight: Bette Midler's profanity laced rant about Bush and Republicans in general. Completely inappropriate for the venue and the occassion. She started getting booed, but semi-made up for it with a nice version of a Tom Waits tune, I think Its Gonna rain.

Still, it was the New Orleans musicians, many of whom I used to see on a nearly daily basis, playing their hearts out at the Garden, that made the show so bittersweet for me. I think the show did a great job of showing anyone who watched it why music is so special and important to New Orleans.

sabreman · Post by **sabreman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:37 am

Thanks for the report. Really love all those NO cats. Great to hear AN sang SC's 'Change is Gonna Come'. Did you see 'Make It Funky'?

>>Allen Toussaint (too-SANT')

Not according to the Night Tripper (Dr. John). As he would say 'The Great Allen Too-SAINT'!

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:35 am

'Make it Funky' is required viewing for any and all music fans. They showed several clips during the breaks on the concert last night.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:36 pm

It might be a couple of weeks before I have to watch most of this -- so thanks for the report, Pop. I just snippets, but I really dug what I saw.

One interesting sidelight, Clarence "Frogman" Henry did a nearly perfect version of his trademark tun and is apparently impervious to age.

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:37 pm

Is this set to be aired on regular TV at all?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:01 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/arts/ ... 2easy.html

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Louisiana musicians also propelled strong performances by non-natives. Elvis Costello belted "The Monkey Speaks His Mind" with the Dirty Dozen and the song's writer, Dave Bartholomew, and found the scorn and vitriol in Allen Toussaint's "On Your Way Down," with Mr. Toussaint at the piano. Diana Krall, also with the Dirty Dozen, dug into the Fats Domino hit "I'm Walkin'."

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/ ... xml&coll=1

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Of the non-natives, the most invested in New Orleans music was Elvis Costello, who has recorded with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and covered songs by producer/songwriter Dave Bartholomew. After singing gritty R&B with Toussaint's band, he joined the Dirty Dozen and Bartholomew to voice the latter's ever-hip sociological commentary "The Monkey (Speaks His Mind)." Costello was upstaged by Diana Krall, though, as his wife delivered a sexy rendition of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'."

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/mu ... -headlines

There were a few hints of the politics that have been stirred up by the hurricane. Elvis Costello made what might have been a reference to President George W. Bush's recent speeches: "There's been a lot of good words said in the last few days, and we've gotta make sure those promises are kept." Bette Midler was more overt, cracking wise about Bush and Republicans before launching into "I Think It's Going To Rain Today." Cyril Neville made his statement silently: His T-shirt read, "Ethnic Cleansing In New Orleans."

The show opened with The Rebirth Brass Band playing a somber dirge as it walked slowly through the crowd. Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes" introduced Toussaint, who played a breezy version of "Southern Nights" at the piano and then remained there, serving as bandleader for Clarence "Frogman" Henry, The Dixie Cups, Art Neville and others.

Costello followed a moody version of "On Your Way Down" with a funky, upbeat "Yes We Can." Elton John played a grandiose set that ended with the spiritual-themed "Levon." Fogerty charged through a number of bluesy rock tunes, including the trademark "Born on the Bayou."

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:03 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/arts/ ... 0tous.html
( extract)
Performing solo in a hurricane benefit at Joe's Pub on Sunday - a second performance is scheduled for next Sunday - Mr. Toussaint seemed taken aback by the repeated standing ovations offered him by a crowd that included Mr. Costello.

Photos here.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:39 am

Now I'm reminded why Elvis always seems to wear suits! Jeans just don't suit him.

Good to see our man so involved.