KE & LH Trio@Tanglewood 9/4 - tickets go on sale 2/14

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From the Dawn Singh's press release:

On Sunday, February 14, tickets go on sale for the 2010 Tanglewood season, including the annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival, to take place September 4-5. Jazz greats highlighting this year’s festival include Kurt Elling, John Pizzarelli, The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Eddie Daniels, Bob James, Donal Fox, Julian Lage, Jessica Molaskey, and the Laurence Hobgood Trio. All shows will be held in Seiji Ozawa Hall.

On Saturday, September 4 at 8 p.m., jazz vocalist and 2010 Grammy winner for the Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, Kurt Elling, makes a triumphant return to Seiji Ozawa Hall. Nine-time Grammy nominee, Elling captured the award for his latest CD, “Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman” (Concord Records 2009).

With a four-octave baritone voice, Elling is known for his cutting edge vocalese technique and has toured with his musical “father figures” Jon Hendricks and Mark Murphy in “Four Brothers.” A native of Chicago, Elling has worked extensively with the Steppenwolf Theater on multi-disciplinary events incorporating music, poetry, acting, dancing and visual projections. He has recorded and toured extensively and has been awarded the Prix Billie Holiday from the Academie du Jazz in Paris, has placed six consecutive years at the top of the Down Beat Critics and Jazz Times Readers’ polls and received three Jazz Journalists’ Association Awards for Best Male Vocalist.

Opening for Kurt Elling on Saturday night will be Elling’s long-time collaborator Laurence Hobgood and his trio. Referred to as “one of the most incredible pianists I’ve ever heard” by Dave Brubeck, Hobgood has worked with Elling since 1995 when they co-produced “Close Your Eyes,” their first of six Grammy nominated records on the Blue Note label. Hobgood received his own Grammy nomination in 2010 for “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist” for “Dedicated to You.” A powerful, imaginative innovator with a hard-driving sense of swing, Hobgood’s latest CD, “When the Heart Dances” (Naim Records), features legendary bassist, Charlie Haden.

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Tickets are available through Tanglewood’s website, www.tanglewood.org (beginning at 8 a.m. on February 14), by calling SymphonyCharge at 617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200 (beginning at 10 a.m. on February 14), or by visiting the Boston Symphony Orchestra Box Office at 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA (beginning at 10 a.m. on February 14).