Eddie Jobson announces UKZ’s debut concert for January 24, 2009 at Town Hall in NYC
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Performance/Tour News Posted: 2008-12-03
SOURCE: Lori Hehr Public Relations
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=26364
Keyboard and electric-violin legend Eddie Jobson ( UK, Roxy Music,
Zappa) announces the new UKZ’s debut concert for January 24, 2009 at 8
p.m. at Town Hall in New York City. The “One City World Tour” will
also feature the U.S. debut of special guests Stick Men, featuring
King Crimson’s Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto. The ticket on-sale date
will be announced soon.
The concert will follow the January 6 pre-release of UKZ band’s debut
EP entitled Radiation, which is slated for full retail release
nationally on March 3.
Returning from a self-imposed 27-year retirement from band and touring
activity, Jobson set out to find the same caliber of next-generation
musicians for the new UKZ project that would equal or surpass the
talents of his previous colleagues and collaborators—an impressive
list that includes Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Phil
Collins, John Entwistle, Ian Anderson, Simon Phillips, Terry Bozzio,
Allan Holdsworth, and Tony Levin.
# Jobson -- who was born and raised in the Durham area of England --
has hand-selected a truly international dream-band of virtuosos from
around the world:
# Aaron Lippert -- a citizen of Belgium, but born and raised in New
York -- the former lead singer and songwriter for Columbia recording
artists Expanding Man.
# Trey Gunn -- a Texas native, currently residing in Seattle – a
ten-year veteran of King Crimson and the leading exponent of the Warr
10-string touch guitar.
# Alex Machacek -- from Vienna, Austria -- an award-winning guitar
prodigy and composer.
# Marco Minnemann -- from Hannover, Germany -- a drumming phenomenon
of unparalleled virtuosity.
Opening for the supergroup will be Stick Men, which features Chapman
stick players Tony Levin and Michael Bernier, with Pat Mastelotto on
drums.
Visit website - http://www.ukzband.com/
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