MONTHLY ITINERARIES (2010 thru 2007)
and
European Tours from 1985 (partial list)
2010
DECEMBER: Dave Liebman Group European Tour to
OCTOBER: Dave Liebman Group at Jimmy Macks, Portland, OR; Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, VT; One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME ; Celebration of NEA Master’s Award and the Dave Liebman Big Band at the Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA; Dave Liebman Big Band record release (“As Always”) at Iridium, NYC; Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble featuring Dave Liebman performing commissioned music by the Ensemble Intercontemporain(Pierre Boulez group) premiered 2009 at La Cite De Musique, Paris, France
SEPTEMBER: Masters with Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Billy Drummond at Birdland, NYC; Dave Liebman Group at the COTA Festival, Delaware Water Gap, PA; at 55 Bar, NYC; at Scullers, Boston, MA; at the Falcon, Marlboro, NY; the Turning Point, Piermont, NY; Anthology, San Diego, CA; Vitellos, Los Angeles, CA; Bach Dancing Society, Half Moon Bay, CA; Yoshis, Oakland, CA; Kuumbwa Jazz Society, Santa Cruz, CA
AUGUST: 23rd Saxophone Master Class held at East Stroudsburg University, PA; concerts at Jazz and Wine, Bordeaux, France; performance with saxophonist Jean Charles Richard in Poitiers, France; Dave Liebman Big Band, Scranton Jazz Festival, PA
JULY: Iridium, NYC with Bill Warfield Big Band playing Le Jazz Hot; CONTACT tour in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal; workshop and concert at Tuscia Jazz Festival, Italy; Jazz and Wine Festival in Bordeaux, France.
JUNE: The Falcon, Marlboro, NY and the Lafayette Bar and Grill, Easton, PA with Evan Gregor (bass), Bobby Avey (piano), Mike Stephans (drums); 20th Anniversary Jazz Meeting of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ), Den Haag, MAY: Dave Liebman Group at the Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA USA; Heidelberg, Germany; tour with Michael Arbenz Trio; “Quest” concert in Santiago De Compostela, Spain; concert and clinics with “We Three” ( Adam Nussbaum-drums/ Steve Swallow-bass) in Essen, Germany and Sevilla, Spain; recording with Richie Beirach and Lee Konitz; Miles Davis tribute at Iridium with Tom Harrell and Jeremy Pelt, New York; clinics and concert at University of Cincinnati, OH.
APRIL: April 5-7: Master classes at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute,
MARCH: March 2nd, 3rd-Stadtgarten, Koln and
FEBRUARY: California dates: Clinics at Cal State, Fullerton; University of California, Irvine; USC, Los Angeles; Saddleback College, Mission Viejo; gig with Bob Shepard at Vitellos club in Studio City, LA; “Lookout Farm Revisited” with Richie Beirach, Ron McClure and Jeff Williams at Birdland, New York; Different But The Same with Ellery Eskelin, Jim Black and Tony Marino at Cornelia Street Café, NYC and Blues Alley, Washington, DC
JANUARY: Organ Trio gig with drummer Phil Haynes and organist Steve Adams at the Elk Creek Café and Aleworks in
2009
DECEMBER: With Lewis Porter Quartet, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ; with Uli Soykal at Porgy and Bess, Vienna, Austria; Duo with Richie Beirach at Casa de Jazz, Rome, Italy; Jazz Werkstatte Cafe, Berlin, Germany; Altes-Pfandhaus, Cologne, Germany; “On The Corner” rendition with John Abercrombie, Badal Roy, Eric Echampard, Andy Emler, Lynley Marte at Le Cite De Musique, Paris, France.
NOVEMBER: “Sketches of Spain” with the Manhattan School Orchestra at Manhattan School and Dizzy’s Club, NYC; Dave Liebman Group at Roberto’s Woodwind Store, NYC; Dave Liebman Group at Keystone College, Scranton, PA; Duo concert with Phil Markowitz at the Rubin Museum, NYC; Dave Liebman Group at the Falcon, Marlboro, NY (opening of new venue).
OCTOBER: Dave Liebman Group at Chris Jazz Café, Philadelphia, PA; Polish duo tour with pianist Matuesz Kolakowski; Seoul, Korea Jazz Festival with Hey Rim Jeon Group featuring Terry Lynne Carrington and John Lockwood; European tour with “Different But the Same” featuring Ellery Eskelin, Jim Black and Tony Marino.
SEPTEMBER: with the Dave Allen Group at 55 Bar, NYC; COTA Festival in Delaware Water Gap, PA with Evan Gregor Group and Dave Liebman Group; Dave Liebman Group at the Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA; 55 Bar, New York City; The Falcon in Marlboro, NY; master classes at Manhattan School of Music and Lehigh University.
AUGUST: Chromatic Harmony Master Class, East Stoudsburg, University, Pennsylvania; clinic and performance at workshop with pianist Armen Donelian and saxophonist Marc Mommaas in Hudson,
JULY:19th Annual Jazz Meeting of the IASJ in Lucerne, Switzerland; tour with “We Three” (Adam Nussbaum and Steve Swallow) in Europe-Fribourg, Switzerland, Merano, Italy, Copenhagen, Porquerolles(Marseilles), France; performance with saxophonist Romano Pratesi in Rome (with Adam Nussbaum ) and Florence (Daniel Humair).
JUNE: Sketches of
MAY:DL Group at the Belarussian Chruch, Brooklyn, NY; duo tour of France with Jean Marie Machado including Marseilles, Coutances, Le Havre(workshop also) , Valence(with workshop), Arles, Avignon; Iridium in New York playing Miles In India.
APRIL: Central Florida University, Orlando; St. Mary’s University, Winona, Minnesota; duo with Wolfgang Reisinger at Porgy and Bess, Vienna, Austria; with the BBC Big Band at the Cheltenham Festival, England; residency at Trinity Conservatory, London, England; premiere of original piece “Passings” commissioned by the Commission Project for soprano sax, oboe, viola and cello at the Manhattan School of Music.
MARCH: The Iridium in New York playing the music of Dexter Gordon in a quintet with Eric Alexander and George Cables; Ensemble Intercontemporain(above); master classes at the Paris Conservatory with the classical saxophone students of Claude DeLangle and the jazz program; the Dave Liebman Group at the 55 Bar, NYC and the Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA; the Dave Liebman Group at the Capetown Jazz Festival, South Africa.
FEBRUARY-France tour with Bobo Stenson, Daniel Humair, Jean Paul Celea; clinic at the Woodwind and Brass Shop, Paris, France; master classes at the Paris Conservatory; performance with the Jazz Studio Orchestra Bari, Italy; performance with Tony Arco and Enrico Intra at Scimmies, Milan, Italy; workshop at the Civica Scuola di Jazz, Milan; DL Group at the Baltimore Art Museum; DL Group at the Philadelphia Art Museum; with the Ed Saindon Group at University of New Hampshire; clinic and concert at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
JANUARY-With pianist Bobby Avey Quartet at Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA; TV show with DL Group playing Ornette Coleman music at WVIA (PBS), Pittston, PA; public interview with Loren Schoenberg at the Jazz Museum, Harlem, NY; talk with Lewis Porter, Stanley Crouch at Jazz at Lincoln Center on “Jews, Blacks and Jazz”; four nights at Birdland, NYC with Marc Copland, Randy Brecker, Billy Hart, Drew Gress
2008
DECEMBER: Performance of Sketches of Spain-Cite De Musique-Paris, France; Duo tour with pianist Marc Copland-Trier (GERMANY);Oslo (NORWAY);Firenze (ITALY);Bruneck (ITALY);Paris (FRANCE);Caen (FRANCE) ;Dudelange (LUXEMBURG); Frankfurt (GERMANY); Lausanne (SWITZERLAND);clinic in Uster (SWITZERLAND); NEAR ZÜRICH)
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NOVEMBER: Dave Liebman Group at the Falcon Arts Center-Marlboro, New York; 55 Bar-New York City; Deer Head Inn-Delaware Water Gap, PA; Blue Wisp-Cincinnati, OH;University of Indiana-Bloomington, IN; Washington University-St Louis, MO; Green Mill-Chicago, IL; Bloom School of Music-Chicago, IL; Firefly-Ann Arbor, MI; Manchester Crafts Guild-Pittsburgh, PA; East Erie Turners-Erie, PA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery-Buffalo, NY
OCTOBER: Miles in India Project at Davies Hall, San Francisco, CA; with Badal Roy and Michael Henderson at the Hartford Jazz Festival, Connecticut; solo performance at the Jazz Kongress, Freiburg, Germany; European tour with the Dave Liebman Group: Trondheim/Tromsø/ Molde/ Lillehammer-Norway; Nancy/Quimper, France: Köln, Germany; Vienna/Salzburg/Völkermarkt-Austria; Genoa, Italy; Cork, Ireland; performances and workshops with Mike Murley and Ian Froman in Toronto, Canada
SEPTEMBER: Jazz Gallery in New York with “Different But The Same” Group (Ellery Eskelin, Jim Black and Tony Marino); Dave Liebman Group at the COTA Festival, Delaware Water Gap, PA; duo performance with Polish pianist Mateusz Kolakowski at the Jazz Standard, New York; Deer Head Inn with pianist Dave Lantz, Delaware Water Gap, PA; solo performance at art show opening of Kathy Kyvinskas at the Dutot Museum, Delaware Water Gap, PA; performance with drummer Phil Haynes and organist Steve Adams at the Elk Creek Café, Milhiem, PA; Saxophone Summit at the Regatta Bar, Boston, MA; lecture with Joe Lovano and Ravi Coltrane for the Coltrane House Fund at the Huntington Library, Huntington, NY
AUGUST: Twenty first Saxophone Master Class at East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania (22 participants from ten countries attending) with guest Steve Wilson; with Ric Margitza, Jean Jacques Quesada, Pierre Bethmann, Peter Giron in Bordeaux, France; concerts in Poland with Jacek Kochan; Barga Festival in Italy doing Liebman compositions in Big Band setting.
JULY: Sax Summit European tour; performance with George Gruntz in Villengen, Switzerland; workshop at the Litchfield Jazz Festival, Conneticut; Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, PA with Gene Perla, Vic Juris and Mike Stephans.
JUNE:Dave Liebman Group at the Telluride Festival, Colorado; Rochester Festival, NY ; Edmonton Festival, Canada; Saxophone Summit (Ravi Coltrane, Joe Lovano, Phil Markowitz, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart) performances at Birdland-New York City; Regatta Bar-Boston; Montreal and Saratoga Festivals.
MAY:Concerts in Rome and Milan with pianist Enrico Intra ; Bologna concert with drummerTony Arco, pianist Roberto Tarenzi and bassist Paolo Benedettini; duo concerts with Jean Marie Machado in Diersbach and Berlin, Germany ; Duc du Lombard in Paris and Vierson-France; LeMans Festival with World View Trio of Wolfgang Reisinger on drums andJean Paul Celea on bass with special guest John Abercrombie; Concerts with Nordbatten Big Band conducted by Tim Hagans in Lulea, Haparanda and Stockholm-Sweden; with Kevin Mahogany and Markowitz(piano) doing a Tribute to Coltrane and Hartmann at the Central Friends of Jazz Festival-Harrisburg, PA.
APRIL:Tour with big band of Zagreb, Croatia; workshop at Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA; clinics in Quakertown, PA and Trees Island High School, Long Island, NY; lecture at Town Hall, NY; Dave Liebman Group at the Jazz Base in Reading, PA; Kitano Hotel, NYC; Turning Point, Piermont, NY; Paradiso Cafe, Ottawa, Canada; the Upstairs Jazz Bar, Montreal, Canada, One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine; lecture on Miles and Trane with Dave Liebman Group at New England Conservatory, Boston.
MARCH:Lecture for Chamber Music America-New York City; tour of Argentina and Uruguay with Dave Liebman Group; Deer Head Inn with Mike Stephens, Tony Marino and Bobby Avey; Paris concerts with bassist Dominique Muzeau and group; gigs, teaching and recording (Kurt Weill project) in Holland with drummer Eric Ineke.
FEBRUARY:Quest at Birdland, NYC;Cocnert in
JANUARY:IAJE Convention in Toronto –appearance with Mike Murley, Ian Froman and Jim Vivian at the Rex;England tour with giuitarist Phil Robson and drummer Jeff Williams;concert with drummer Tony Bianco and Evan Parker in London
2007
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER: Concerts in France with Bobo Stenson, Daniel Humair and Jean Paul Celea; Performance of music from West Side Story and Porgy and Bess with Manhattan School of Music Orchestra at Dizzy’s Club, New York; European tour with Quest (Richie Beirach, Ron McClure, Billy Hart).
OCTOBER:Tour of Germany with Juergen Friedrich Trio featuring John Hebert (bass) and Tony Moreno (drums); Italian tour with the Cues Trio featuring Roberto Tarenzi(piano), Paolo Benedettini(bass) and Tony Arco(drums); clinics and performance with the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra playing the Miles Davis-Gil Evans collaboration “Porgy and Bess” at the Jazz Improv Convention, New York City; DAVE LIEBMAN GROUP-Fall Tour 2007;Oct 21st 4pm (master class) 6pm (concert) The Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA; Oct.27th Chris's Jazz Café,
SEPTEMBER: Birdland, NYC with the Dave Liebman Group featuring guests Anthony Jackson and Mike Stern playing music from the “Beyond the Corner” (Shrapnel Records) recording; Saxophone Summit playing the music of John Coltrane including Meditations Suite with the Manhattan School of Music Concert Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space, NYC featuring Joe Lovano, Ravi Coltrane, Phil Markowitz, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart; appearance at the COTA Festival, Delaware water Gap, PA –Dave Liebman and Neighbors with Mike Stephans(drums), Evan Gregor(bass), Matt Vashlishan (alto), Bobby Avey(piano), Lydia Liebman (vocals).
AUGUST: 20th Anniversary of Lieb’s Saxophone/ Chromatic Master class at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, USA celebrating John Coltrane with a performance for multiple saxophonists doing the “Meditations Suite” joined by Evan Gregor on bass, Mike Stephans on drums and Phil Markowitz on piano; performance of “Sketches of Spain” at the Marciac (France) Festival with the Toulouse Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Jean Charles Richard; workshop and premiere of chamber piece written for Lieb by Ronan Guilfoyle in Dublin, Ireland; Red Sea Festival in Eilat, Israel with Saxophone Summit doing Coltrane program; workshop and performance at trumpeter Paolo Fresu workshop in Nuoro, Sardinia.
JULY: concert and 17th Annual Jazz Meeting of the IASJ in Siena, Italy (our third time there celebrating the 30th anniversary of the very influential Siena Associazone); performance with bassist Christian Stock Group in Augsburg, Germany; tour with “We Three: Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum in Europe. (http://www.saudades.at)
MAY: With McCoy Tyner at the
APRIL: Dave Liebman Group at the 55 Bar, NYC; Concert and lecture for John Coltrane at East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA with Ravi Coltane, Billy Hart, Phil Markowitz and Cecil McBee; Dave Liebman Big Band at University of Michigan, Hope College (Michigan) and University of Toledo, Ohio; Dave Liebman Group at the Falcon Arts Center, Marlboro, New York and The Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania; master class and concert at Musichochschule Lucerne, Switzerland; European tour with “Different But The Same” featuring Ellery Eskelin, Jim Black and Tony Marino
MARCH: I am off to the
Paris, France-two nights at the Sunset Club with bassist Riccardo Del Fran and group; master class and performance of big band arrangement of “Meditations Suite” at the Paris Conservatory; master class at Paris Conservatory with students of Claude DeLangle; performances in Belgium with pianist Jean Marie Machado; with singer Kevin Mahogany commemorating Johnny Hartman with John Coltrane recording at the Berks Jazz Festival, Reading, Pennsylvania; the Dave Liebman Group at Keystone College, La Plume, PA. (Dates for all appearances available at each site).
FEBRUARY: Feb 11-Clinic and duo performance with Marc Copland at the Deer Head Inn, Deleware Water Gap, PA;Feb 23- David Liebman Big Band at East Orange County Community College, NY; CD release-"Om/ShalOM: Old Wine, New Bottles: Jewish Music Revisited"-well known Jewish songs with Mike Stephans, Scott Colley and Benny Maupin at the Deer Head Inn-Feb 25 and the Blue Note, NYC-Feb 26
JANUARY: Jan 3-6 with Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis-“Tribute to Elvin Jones” at the Blue Note-NYC;Jan 12-IAJE Convention-Hilton Hotel, NYC-performance with Dave Liebman Group at 7PM-Trianon Ballroom-Hilton Hotel; Jan 12 with Ronan Guilfoyle(bass) and Tom Rainey(drums) at 55 Bar-NYC; Jan 17 with Scott DuBois Quartet(Thomas Morgan on bass, Gerald Cleaver on drums) at 55 Bar; Jan 19th at Penn State University, Main Campus-State College,PA -Music School Auditorium with Marko Marcinko,Phil Markowitz and Evan Gregor.
Here is a partial list of tours that Lieb has done with Saudades Tourneen since 1985.