Bassist, composer and band leader Dave Holland is releasing his latest CD, Pass It On on September 23.

The release features Holland’s sextet, who formed in 2006, consisting of Robin Eubanks (trombone), Antonio Hart (alto saxophone), Alex “Sasha” Sipiagin (trumpet), Mulgrew Miller (piano) and Eric Harland (drums).

The CD features several new arrangements of past Holland originals over the past twenty years.

Holland has just completed touring with Herbie Hancock for the River of Possibilities tour and is planning a tour of his own this fall, including: 9/18-20 Regattabar, Boston; 9/21 Yale University, New Haven; 9/24-28 Yoshi’s, San Francisco & Oakland; and 10/8-11 Birdland, New York.

Source: PRWeb

Jack Bruce is performing at Hippiefest this weekend, in Clearwater, FL.

Return to Forever and bassist Stanley Clarke continue to get rave reviews, as their tour winds down.

Dave Holland is helping families in New Haven, CT, performing a benefit concert on September 21.

The Levine Report has a nice feature on Gerald Veasley, who is enjoying one of his best selling albums to date, Your Move.

Another multi-bass album is coming. This time from Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller & Victor Wooten, joining together as S.M.V.

The new album, Thunder, is out on August 12th.

Sample tracks here:

Return To Forever, featuring Stanley Clarke on bass, Chick Corea on piano, Al Di Meola on guitar and Lenny White on drums, has just announced dates for their upcoming tour. Every RTF fan I know is going nuts with the news (including me).

The tour is is scheduled through August 2008… here are the dates through June:

May 29, 2008 Austin, TX
May 30, 2008 Austin, TX
May 31, 2008 Houston, TX
June 1, 2008 Dallas, TX
June 3, 2008 Denver, CO
June 4, 2008 Salt Lake City, UT
June 6, 2008 Portland, OR
June 7, 2008 Medford, OR
June 8, 2008 Seattle, WA
June 9, 2008 Vancouver, BC
June 11, 2008 San Francisco, CA
June 12, 2008 San Francisco, CA
June 13, 2008 Los Angeles, CA

Here’s the video announcement from the group:

Source: Return2Forever.com

Michael had to cancel a recent show due to a bout with pneumonia. We wish him a speedy recovery!

Michael is doing a live online masterclass, in conjunction with Bass Player Magazine, on Wednesday March 12 us at 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific. See Bass Player Magazines’s site for more details.

Here’s the rest of the concert schedule:

March 13
Performing with singer-songwriter John Gorka
Electronic House Expo
Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL

March 28-30
Instruction and solo performances
Gerald Veasley’s Bass Bootcamp
Part of the Berks Jazz Fest, Reading, PA

March 31 at 7pm
Performing with guitarist David Cullen
Gerald Veasley’s JazzBase
Sheraton Reading Hotel, 1741 Paper Mill Road, Reading, PA 19610

April 11 at 9:30pm
Improvised music with percussionist Mika Scott and others
Dance Jam
Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th Street, Berkeley, CA, 510-594-4021

May 15 at 8pm
Solo bass
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
1111 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94702, (510) 548-1761
also appearing: Jeff Schmidt, Jean Beaudin, Dave Grossman

May 20-24
Performances to be announced
Acoustic Guitar International Meeting
Fortezza Firmafede, Sarzana (SP), ITALY

May 27
Solo Master Class
Music Academy International
12 Avenue du XXe Corps, BP 637 - 54010 NANCY CEDEX, Tel: 03 83 39 70 70

May 28
Solo Master Class
Basscool
Lille, FRANCE

May 29
Solo performance
Le Triton
11, Rue du Coq Français, 93260 Les Lilas, France, Paris, FRANCE, Tel: +33 1 49 72 83 13

May 30
Solo performance, details to be announced
Bordeaux, FRANCE

May 31
Solo performance
Rock et Chansons
Talence, France

June 27-29
Solo performance and instruction
New Hampshire Bass Fest
Manchester, NH

July 5
Accompanying singer-songwriter John Gorka
Mariposa Folk Festival
Tudhope Park, Orillia, ON, CANADA

July 17
As part of the Perry Mills Project, and solo performance
Third Thursday Jazz Series
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA

July 18
Solo performance
Nissi’s
2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, CO 80026, 303-665-2757

Sept. 27
Solo performance
Details to be announced
Guatemala City, GUATEMALA

Oct 24
Solo performance
Godfrey Daniel’s Coffeehouse
7 East Fourth Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015-1601, (610) 867-2390

Oct 25
Solo and with guitarists Rudy Perrone and William Ackerman
Workshop 1pm, Concert 8pm
Five Towns Music College
Dix Hills, Long Island, NY 11746

Oct. 31 - Nov. 1
Solo performance
Euro Bass Day
Verona, ITALY, tel: 045 8205716

Brian Bromberg’s Downright Upright has been nominated for a Grammy.

The album is a collection of funky, upbeat covers and originals recorded with jazz greats including Rick Braun, Boney James, Jeff Lorber and Lee Ritenour.

You can sample tracks from Downright on Bromberg’s web site.

A new project featuring a series of videos recorded with Rufus Reid has is now available on JazzDoubleBass.com. Here’s a preview:

Marcus Miller is featured on The Many Moods of Miles Davis, Part II: The Later Years, currently running on NPR and available online.

Miller and Wallace Roney “funk-out to Miles’ fusion” in a segment, while Nicholas Payton and Sophie Fraught cover Davis’ second great quintet on Wayne Shorter’s “Agitation”.

Check the Jazz at Lincoln Center site for the schedule.

Part 1 of the series is now available.

Michael Manring has just announced his newest tour schedule.

with the Demania Trio:

Tue. Nov. 6: Yoshi’s, Oakland, CA
Thu. Nov 8: Musician’s Institute, Hollywood, CA
Fri. Nov. 9: McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA

with singer-songwriter John Gorka:

Thu. Nov. 29: Cactus Cafe/U of Texas, Austin, TX
Fri. Nov. 30: Paramount Theatre, Abilene, TX
Sat. Dec. 1: Jefferson Freedom Cafe, Fort Worth, TX

Solo Performances:

Sun. Dec. 2: Solo House Concert, Dallas, TX
Sat. Jan 26, 2008: Noe Valley Music Series at Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, CA (also appearing: bassists Yves Carbonne and Edo Castro)

Christian McBride, along with drummer Antonio Sanchez, is on tour with Pat Metheny’s Trio. McBride first played with Metheny in the early 90’s, but admits it didn’t go as well as this time around.

The Trio, together since 2003, is set to release their first album, “Day Trip”, in January, 2008.