Check it out! Pilobolus Dance Company performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien last night. The video is already up on YouTube:
Pilobolus performs in the M&T Bank Dance Series at the Center on November 1 at 8pm. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, August 20 at the Center Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
Just announced:
Joe Satriani
Plus Very Special Guest Mountain featuring Leslie West and Corky Laing
Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 7:00pm
UB Center for the Arts
Tickets: $47, $37, Students $32
Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 11 at 10:00AM at the Center Box Office, Ticketmaster outlets and ticketmaster.com. Charge by phone at 716-852-5000.
The special holiday performance of The Irish Tenors, slated for December 12, has been canceled due to scheduling issues. All tickets purchased through Ticketmaster Charge-By-Phone and Ticketmaster.com will be automatically refunded. Tickets purchased through Ticketmaster outlets or the Box Offices should be returned to point of purchase for a full refund.
However, if you love the Tenors, check them out on at Artpark this August - http://www.artpark.net/content/pages/irish-tenors
Vote for Punch Brothers in ESPN's Battle of the Bands!!
ESPN's Baseball Tonight will commemorate the 100th anniversary of "Take
Me Out to the Ballgame" - the famous seventh stretch song - with a
"battle of the bands" featuring nine different musical guests.
Punch Brothers performance on Baseball Tonight airs this Wednesday, June 18 at 10 PM ET and again at midnight. Voting will begin on June 29th once all the videos have been aired. The top three finalists will be announced on July 6th with the winner being named on July 13th. Make Punch Brothers the winner!
Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile perform at the Center for the Arts on Monday, November 17 at 8pm. Tickets are on sale now!
Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10:00am at the Center Box Office, Ticketmaster.com, and Ticketmaster locations! Tony Bennett will perform Sunday, December 14 at 8:00pm.
Tony Bennett is an
artist who moves the hearts and touches the souls of audiences. He’s the
singer’s singer and has received high praise from his colleagues through the
years, including Frank Sinatra who stated unequivocally, “Tony Bennett is the
best singer in the business.” He is an international treasure who was honored
by the United Nations with their “Citizen of the World” award, which aptly
describes the scope of his accomplishments.
With over 50 million records sold world-wide and platinum and gold albums to
his credit, Bennett has received fifteen Grammy Awards including the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Proceeds to benefit the
This concert is presented by The Derico of East
Amherst Corporation and its employees, a locally owned 12 outlet McDonald's
organization. Concert proceeds benefit the families of the Buffalo Ronald
McDonald House.
Since opening its doors to families of seriously ill or injured children more
than 24 years ago, the Ronald McDonald House of Buffalo has provided
comfortable, affordable lodging for 17,000 families from
Feist, performing at the Center for the Arts May 1, has won five Junos. Full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/music_nm/junos_dc;_ylt=AjWarnCJnYcceGbpP
By Jeffrey Levine
Still able to name all of the big Buffalo jazz clubs of his youth like they were members of his family, saxophonist and Buffalo native Bobby Militello hasn’t missed a beat over the four decades of his career.
A recent conversation with Bobby recalled names of Buffalo mainstays like Gabriel’s Gate, Mulligans and Statler, interspersed with jazz icons like Maynard Ferguson and Dave Brubeck, along with remembrances of European tours, old LPs, and notes still left to blow. With a series of sideman stints that reads like a veritable “who’s who” in the jazz world, and more side projects than there are notes in a burning jazz solo, what is perhaps more surprising than the scope of Militello’s career, however, is the impetus that started it all for young Bobby.
“I actually started playing clarinet because I saw the Benny Goodman Story and just wanted to be him,” Militello explained. “I switched in grammar school [to saxophone] and just kind of fell in love with it.”
Casually adding that, “my clarinet chops suck now,” Militello has maintained his sense of humor in an industry that has a tendency to wear people out as they criss-cross the country touring and spending entire nights trying to perfect their craft. Militello still feels the same drive despite - or perhaps because of - all his many accomplishments in the field.
“I’ve lived the life of ten people, but I take it in stride and try not to let things affect me,” Militello said. “If you keep your career in perspective you realize that you never make it. A player’s ego is a very strong thing but it only belongs on the stage. When you’re done, you’re a regular person like anyone else. You just always try to be better than you were yesterday. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll never reach perfection. I’ll just be on that road all the time, trying to do it better every day.”
For Militello, that road has taken him a long way from the strip shows and university rehearsal halls of Buffalo to a ten-year stint in Los Angeles, tours all over the world and back to his hometown once again. A self-proclaimed ‘road rat,’Militello still uses Buffalo as his base of operations while maintaining an active touring schedule. Jokingly stating that “When you’re on the road, you get paid to travel,” Militello finished his thought with more passion than humor: “You play for free.” Gigging might be how Bobby pays the bills, but music is Militello’s life and it’s what drives him night after night.
Looking to legendary pianist and long-time collaborator Dave Brubeck for inspiration, the chances of Bobby melting down his alto sax into a set of golf clubs looks about as slim as Bill Clinton picking up his horn and touring the country.
“Music is my voice and my soul,” Militello said. “It expresses what I am the best. I will never hang that up, and couldn’t conceive of doing that.”
Savion Glover stopped by a reception with the Center for the Arts Advisory
Council last night after his phenomenal performance with the McCoy Tyner
Trio. The performance was sponsored by KeyBank and sponsored in part by Kinetic Kitchen & Bath. Former UB president,
Professor William Greiner, advisory council member Marilyn Ciancio, and Mrs.
Carol Greiner were among the lucky supporters to meet Mr. Glover.
The Center for the Arts Advisory Council is a group of dedicated individuals committed to the Center's mission and its continued success in serving our community. Members of the Advisory Council strengthen ties between the community and the Center for the Arts by building upon the strengths of the Center. Together, the Director and the Council members identify opportunities, generate resources, and use their knowledge and experience to assist in the growth of the Center.
The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will
present An Evening with The Dave Brubeck Quartet on Tuesday, March 25 at
8:00pm in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North
Campus.
Dave Brubeck, designated a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress, continues to be one of the most active and popular musicians in the world today. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, his experiments with odd time signatures, improvised counterpoint, and distinctive harmonies remain hallmarks of a unique musical style unfazed by fad and fashion. While increasingly active as a composer, Brubeck has remained a leading figure in the jazz mainstream, appearing at jazz festivals, recording, and touring internationally with today's version of the Dave Brubeck Quartet - Bobby Militello, sax and flute, Randy Jones, drums, and Michael Moore, bass.
Buffalo native Bobby Militello first caught Dave Brubeck's ear at a jazz
festival when he stepped out in front of the Maynard Ferguson band to take a
"dazzling" flute solo. Dave Brubeck asked Militello to audition for the
Quartet in 1982 and they have been playing together ever since. Prior to his
work with Brubeck, Militello toured with the Maynard Ferguson band from
1975-79. Bobby has recorded numerous TV and film scores in Hollywood and
has also led and recorded with his own groups.
British born drummer Randy Jones joined the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1978 after having played with such great as Maynard Ferguson, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Milt Jackson, Bill Watrous, Harry James, Cleo Laine, Tony Bennett, and Billy Eckstein. He has recorded numerous albums with the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the Telarc, MusicMasters, and Concord Jazz labels and has performed with the Quartet in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Randy is noted as a versatile drummer, capable of swinging a big band, or dynamically weaving intricate patterns in the DBQ's odd time signatures. An avid collector of classical recordings, his solos reflect that interest with an unusually strong sense of melodic form and compositional structure.
The most recent member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, bassist Michael Moore, is an acknowledged master of his instrument, as well as a leader of his own duo and trio which feature the bass as a solo instrument. Born in Cincinnati, Michael started his musical training at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. After joining the Woody Herman band at age 20, he became an important player in the New York jazz scene, recording and performing with such artists as Marian McPartland, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, John Scofield, Tony Bennett, and many others. John S. Wilson of the New York Times called Michael "one of the most consistently brilliant bassists in recent history."
Tickets for The Dave Brubeck Quartet are $35, students $30. Tickets are available at the Center Box Office (Mon.-Fri. 10am-6pm) and all Ticketmaster locations including ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets call (716)852-5000, in Canada 1-416-870-8000. For more information call (716)645-ARTS. For Group Sales, call (716)645-6771. Students (of any school) must present valid student ID at the Center Box Office to receive discount.
Photos from Sunday's show:
http://buffalo.myspotted.com/pages/event_galleries.php?event=700
