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News Items 2000 and Before
September '00
In november Mike will tour central Europe, with dates Germany,
Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France and the UK.
August '00
Added an interview Adrian Pertout had with Mike last june, just
before the Australian tour.
May '00
New tour dates for Japan have been added. Some of the dates in the
US and Australia have been changed. In october a European tour
will happen. No dates known yet, though.
March '00
An interview with Mike in the brazilian Backstage magazine can be
found on the Articles page. Mike will play
the New Haven Jazz Festival august 26.
February '00
A lot of tour dates for 2000 are known. Scheduled are tours in
Europe, USA, Australia and Japan.
January '00
Tourinfo: mid february Mike will play at the Blue Note in New York
City. In spring a European tour will follow. This tour will start
in De Melkweg, Amsterdam. Full itinerary will be put on the
tourdates page as soon as possible.
November '99
Mike is rumoured to play Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo at the
end of november. More dates will follow. Related to this, the web
site got mentioned in Brazilian magazine Backstage,
receiving comments like "very nice" and
"complete".
October '99
AllAboutJazz's Jason West has done a nice interview with Mike. You
can find the link on the Interviews page.
A Downbeat review of Play can be found on the same page.
August '99
Play will be released september 14th, 1999. European release
date is september 24th. On the
articles page you can read the press release with Mike's
comments on the tracks and view the latest publicity photo. A
real-audio and mp3 version of the title track is available on the
articles page. For the real-audio file
you need the latest
G2 player (the free version will do). For an mp3-player,
see www.mp3.com.
The mailing list is running. The address is
play@mikestern.org. To subscribe, send a message to
play-request@mikestern.org with in the body of the
message the text subscribe your@address. You will then be
subscribed at my earliest convenience.
June '99
The title for the new album is Play. It's mixed and
mastered, and scheduled to be released in august/september.
The summer tour will be a short one, with dates in Italy, Spain,
Switzerland, and one in Paris. The band will consist of Lincoln
Goines, Bob Malach, and Dennis Chambers.
I'm setting up a Stern-mailinglist, and need a name for it. Any
suggestions are welcomed at: marc @ mikestern.org
April '99
The guestbook script seems buggy. I think it should not be allowed
to run when it already is. Anybody know how to do that in perl?
Something like "if (another copy running) then (sleep; try again)"
or so...
Or how to do file locking in perl?
I'm not happy; the result is: guestbook empty, please sign it.
March '99
Mixing of the album is close to finished. It's very cool stuff.
I never said this, but expect a realaudio-snippet from the opening
tune later this year (near july).
In april Mike will start touring again. Check out the new
tour dates.
January '99
The rough tracks for the new album (tentative name: Play)
have been recorded. There are 3 tracks with Bill Frisell,
Ben Perowski and Lincoln Goines, 3 tracks with
John Scofield with the same rhythm section, and 3 tracks
with Jim Beard, Lincoln Goines, Dennis
Chambers and Bob Malach. A ballad is to be added. This
album will be a lot more diverse than previous ones.
January '99
The Official Mike Stern Pages now have their own domain name:
mikestern.org. Also,
a new guestbook is installed, it's empty, so please
sign
it.
November '98
The next album (yet untitled) is scheduled for release about half
way next year. It will feature a number of guitarists. First
recording sessions with Bill Frisell will take place in
December (4 songs). Ben Perowsky is the drummer for these.
Additional sessions with John Scofield are scheduled for
January (3 songs).
October '98
The concert from october 10th in Tel Aviv, Israel, has been
recorded on video and will be broadcasted on the Israeli television
channel2 in the near future.
I would be grateful if someone could make me a copy of the
show. Please contact me at lensink @ chem.rug.nl and
we might set up a trade.
September '98
The Official Mike Stern Homepage has been given a new look.
Comments are welcome. In addition the name has changed to
The Official Mike Stern Pages.
July '98
A new, and more secure, guestbook script has been installed.
Information is no longer processed via Common Gateway Interface,
but via e-mail. The disadvantage is that you are no longer
forwarded to the guestbook, thus get no confirmation of your entry.
I might add confirmation by e-mail at a later date.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by the guestbook being
off-line.
June '98
A short video has been made of the band with Mike, Richie Morales,
Lincoln Goines and Bob Malach. It features 4 tunes, including
Bait Tone Blues and One Liners. The band was tight,
the energy high, and the tempos were fast. This video will
not be offered for sale, but shown 5 times only,
on Japanese TV. The first airing is sometime in october.
I would be eternally grateful if someone could make me a copy of
one of the broadcasts! Please contact me at
lensink @ chem.rug.nl and we might set up a trade.
May '98
In July Mike will make a small tour through Europe, and several
festivals will be visited. Not the North Sea Jazz Festival though.
The band will consist of Bob Malach, Lincoln Goines and Richie
Morales.
October '97
The homepage was temporarily down, it's now moved to a new
location:
http://rugmd0.chem.rug.nl/~lensink/stern/.
The guestbook has been split up. There's now one for Mike Stern
messages exclusively.
Equipment page was added.
August '97
In October/November Mike will be touring Europe again, together
with Bob Sheppard, Lincoln Goines and Dave Weckl. This will be the
last tour of Mike together with Dave Weckl.
A Japanese TV station visited Mike playing at 55 Bar in NYC this
month and taped one or more songs. This might be broadcasted on
Japanese television in the near future.
July '97
Dave Weckl will do an autumn tour with the Mike Stern as well,
after that his solo career will start. Dave's planned a tour of
Europe for spring '98. More information on
Dave's webpage.
June '97
Rumour has it that Dave Weckl will soon be launching his solo
career. So catch him on the current
tour playing with Mike while you still can.
The new album is now mastered and being pressed. It sounds great
(surprise surprise).
April '97
The new album will probably be entitled 'Give & Take'. One track
features Gil Goldstein who's also producing the album. Don Alias
will play percussion on some tracks. Recording is done, mixing is
in progress.
February '97
Mike will play some gigs as a sideman with Danilo Perez in early
february.
January '97
Between The Lines
has been nominated for a Grammy in the category
Best Contemporary Jazz.
The new album (due September '97) will feature Michael Brecker,
John Pattitucci, Jack DeJohnette, possibly David Sanborn. Most of
the material is more or less written, but not 'finished'.
In the summer of '96
Mike will be touring Europe to promote his new album
Between The Lines
with Jeff Andrews and Dave Weckl, and Don Sheppard on saxophone.
December '95
The live band (december '95) consists of Jeff Andrews on bass, either
Dave Weckl or Richie Morales on drums and in addition Bob Malach on
tenorsaxophone when it's a quartet gig.
October '94
The band consists of Bob Malach on tenorsaxophone (Steve Miller,
Robben Ford, Stanley Clarke, Stevie Wonder, Dr. John),
Lincoln Goines on bass (Bob Mintzer, John Scofield, Dizzy Gillespie,
Sonny Rollins) and Richie Morales on drums (Brecker Brothers,
Spyro Gyra, Al Di Meola Electric Project, Bill Evans Super Band,
Dave Brubeck).
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