2003 Tour Dates
The 2003 dates come from screen captures from the official website and should be considered incomplete. Some dates are duplicated and have not yet been nailed down. Select dates for Sept – Nov were provided by Dan Potts as noted.
2003
January
Jan 14 – 19 Seattle WA Jazz Alley
Jan 21 Las Vegas NV Riviera Hotel & Casino Photo
Set I
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
Hit Medley
Birdland
Set II
Blue Birdland
I Wanna Be Happy
Milestones
Misra Dhenuka
Blues From Around Here
Hit Medley
BirdlandTrumpets: Maynard Ferguson, Patrick Hession, Mike Jarosz, Kevin Meads
Trombone: Keith Oshiro
Saxes: Mike Dubaniewicz, Xavier Perez
Drums: Joel Fountain
Bass: Joe Porter
Piano: Harry Miller
Jan 23 Ojai, CA Nordoff High School
Jan 24 Whittier, CA Whittier High School
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
MF Hit Medley
Rocky
Jan 24 Folsom, CA Folsom High School
Jan 25 Millbrae, CA Mills High School
Jan 26 Lake Elsinore, CA Temescal Canyon High School
Jan 27 Yucaipa, CA Yucaipa High School (Cancelled?)
Jan 28 Reedley, CA Reedley High School
Jan 29 Los Angeles, CA Conga Room
Jan 30 Tuscon, AZ Flowing Wells High School
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
Hit Medley
Birdland
February
Feb 1 Los Alamos, NM Los Alamos High School
Feb 3 Greely, CO Union Colony Civic Center
Feb 5 Carrollton, TX Newman Smith High School, PKS Theatre TICKET
Feb 6 San Antonio , TX Southwest High School
Feb 7 Tulsa, OK Union High School
Feb 7 Austin, TX One World Theatre
Feb 9 Manor, TX Manor High School
Feb 10 Edmond, OK University of Central Oklahoma
Feb 13 Bourbonnais, IL Olivet University
Feb 14 Greentown, IN Eastern Howard Perf. Arts Ctr.
Feb 15 Marble Falls, TX Marble Falls High School
Feb 15-16 Loveland , OH Loveland High School
Feb 16 Tyler, TX Chapel High School
Feb 17 Plano, TX Plano Senior High School
Feb 17 Belle Vernon , PA Belle Vernon High School
Feb 19 Medford, NJ Shawnee High School
Feb 20 Williamsburg, VA Lafayette High School
Feb 21 Dover, DE Schwartz Ctr for Arts
Feb 22 Rolling Meadows, IL Rolling Meadows High School
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
MF Hit Medley
Birdland
Blue Birdland
Feb 23 Niles, OH Niles McKinley High School
Feb 24 Kennett Square, PA Unionville High School
Feb 25 Ashburnham, MA Oakmont Reg High School
Feb 26 Plaistow , NH Timberlane Performing Arts Center
Feb 25 – March 2 New York, NY Blue Note
Feb 27 New York, NY Blue Note
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
Milestones
Hit Medley
March
Mar 1 New York NY Blue Note
Mar 2 New York NY Blue Note
Mar 4 Olney, IL E Richland High School (cancelled?)
Mar 4 Hermitage, PA Hickory High School
Mar 5 Highland ,IN Highland High School (cancelled?)
Mar 5 Brownstown ,MI Woodhaven High School (confirmed)
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
MF Hit Medley
Birdland
Mar 6 Madison, WI Madison Civic Center (cancelled?)
Mar 6 Cudahy, WI Cudahy High School (confirmed)
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
MF Hit Medley
Birdland
Mar 7 Bolivar, MO Bolivar High School (wrong date?)
Mar 7 Coon Rapids, MN Coon Rapids High School (photos)
Mar 8 Cudahy, WI Cudahy High School
Mar 9 Blair, NE Blair High School
Mar 19 Westbrook, ME Westbrook High School
Mar 22 Huntington, NY Walt Whitman High School
Mar 25 Jefferson, GA Jackson County High School
Mar 26 St. Cloud, MN Paramount Theatre
Mar 27 Paducah, KY Four Rivers Center for the Peforming Arts
Mar 28 Belleville, IL Belleville East High School (confirmed)
Blue Birdland
I Want To Be Happy
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
MF Hit Medley
Birdland
Blue Birdland
Mar 28 Shawano, WI Shawano Community High School (cancelled?)
Mar 30 Ashland, OH – Ashland Middle School, 345 Cottage Rd
Mar 31 Northwood OH Northwood High School
April
April 1 Bell Vernon, PA High Schpool
April 3 Dedham, MA Dedham High School
April 4 Ellenville, NY Ellenville High School
April 5 Red Lion, PA Red Lion Area Senior High School
April 7 Millburn, NJ Millburn High School
April 8 Kennett Square/Unionville, PA Unionville High School
April 11 Apex , NC West Lake Middle School
April 12 Johnson City, TN East Tennesee State University
April 13 Annville, PA Annville-Cleona High School
April 14 Glenelg, MD Glenelg High School
April 14 Savannah, GA Trustee Theatre
April 15 Tifton, GA Abraham Baldwin College
April 17 Brownstown, MI Woodhaven High School
April 17 Madison, AL Bob Jones High School
April 18 Grayslake, IL College of Lake County
April 19 Merril, WI Merrill High School
April 21 Pueblo, CO Hoag Hall (University of Southern Colorado)
April 25 Fairfield, CA Fairfield Center for Creative Arts
April 29 Greenville, NY Greenville High School
April 30 Upper Arlington, OH Upper Arlington High School
May
May 1 Washington , NJ Washington Hills Reg High School
May 3 Longmont, CO Vance Civic Auditorium
May 4 Southington, CT Southington High School
May 3 Cambridge, MA Ryle’s Jazz Club (confirmed)
MF Alumni Band
Blue Birdland
Welcome
Got The Spirit
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Superbone Meets The Bad Man
Stella By Starlight
Happy Birthday
Stay Loose With Bruce
The Way We Were
MF Hit Medley
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing
Blues From Around Here
Note: All tunes through ‘MF Hit Medley’ were performed by alumni; MF’s band plays on remaining tunes.
May 4 Cambridge, MA Ryle’s Jazz Club (confirmed)
MF 75th Birthday Bash
Blue Birdland
I Wanna Be Happy
Waltz For Nicole
The Girl From Ipanema
I’m Old Fashioned
A Night In Tunisia
Happy Birthday
MF Hit Medley
May 5 Hinesburg, VT Champlain Valley Union High School
May 7 Silver Spring, MD James Hubert Blake High School
May 9 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Casino
May 9 Spring Valley, NY Spring Valley High School
May 10 Easton, PA Easton High School
May 11 Albany, NY Washington Park
May 14 Castries, St Lucia Gaiety
May 15 Almaty, KAZ TBA
May 17 Bishkek, Azerbaijan TBA
May 18 Baku, Azerbaijan Caspian Jazz and Blues Festival
May 21 Vicenza, Italy TBA
May 22 Bleiburg, Austria TBA
May 23 Vienna, Austria – Innsbruck
May 26 – May 31 London, England Ronnie Scott’s Club
June
June 2 Nuremberg, Germany Jazz Studio Nuremberg
June 4 Luxembourg, Europe Den Atelier
Blue Birdland
I Wanna Be Happy
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
Darn That Dream
I Love You
Hit Medley
Blue Birdland
Birdland
Blue Birdland
June 6 Kiev, ’35 Minutes of Jazz’ TV
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine (partial setlist?)
Interviews & behind-the-scenes footage included in TV broadcast
June 7 Klaipeda, Lithuania TBA
June 10 Tiblisi, Georgia TBA
June 16 Bensenville, IL Town Center
June 19 Springfield, OH Veteran’s Park Amph.
Blue Birdland
Ain’t No Sunshine
It Don’t Mean a Thing
MF Hit Medley
Girl From Ipanema (last 2 tunes missing)
June 20 Greentown, IN Eastern Howard Performing Arts Center
June 21 Chicago, IL Private Party
June 22 Chicago, IL Jazz Showcase
June 24 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Center for the Performing Arts/Rainbow Summer
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
Darn That Dream
Blues From Around Here
MF Hit Medley
Birdland
July
July 4 St Paul, MN Harriet Island – Main Stage
July 9 Bensenville, IL Town Center
July 10 Barrington, IL (confirmed per article)
July 12 Watertown, TN Watertown Jazz Festival
August
No tour dates on record
September
Sep 10 San Diego, CA Croce’s Top Hat Bar & Grille
Sep 11 Modesto, CA Modesto Jr. College
Blue Birdland
Star Spangled Banner
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
Darn That Dream
MF Hit Medley
Rocky
Sep 12 San Jose, CA – Private Party (per Dan Potts)
Sep 13 Fairfield, CA Fairfield Ctr. For Creative Arts
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
Darn That Dream
MF Hit Medley
Birdland
Sep 16 American Fork, UT American Fork High School
Sep 18 Sidney, MT Sidney High School
Sep 20 Fisher, MN Fisher High School
Sep 21 Rosemont, MN Rosemont High School
Sep 22 Indianola, IA Simpson College
Sep 27 State University, AR Arkansas State University
Sep 28 Alva, OK Northwest State University
October
Oct 3 St. Louis, MO Touhill Performing Arts Center
Another 75th Birthday Celebration
Alumni Band:
Set I
Alumni Band:
Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’
Danny Boy
Portugese Love
The Way We Were
Rocky
Birdland
Blue Birdland
Set II
MF w/ Arturo Sandoval
Arturo speaks
Blue Birdland
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Ain’t No Sunshine
Girl From Ipanema
MF Hit Medley
Presentation
A Night in Tunisia
Oct 9 Lake Geneva, WI Badger High School Auditorium (review)
Oct 11 University Park, IL Governors State University
Oct 12 Livonia, MI Clarenceville Aud.
Oct 15 Minot, ND – Minot State University (per Dan Potts)
Oct 16 Fargo, ND Fargo South High School
Oct 21 Taylor Mill, KY Scott High School
Oct 23 Somerset, PA – Somerset Area High School (per Dan Potts)
Oct 26 Northwood, OH Northwood High School
Oct 28 Albion, NY Albion Senior High School
Oct 29 Millburn, NJ Millburn High School
November
Nov 7 Cape May, NJ Cape May Conv. Hall
Nov 8 Hollywood, FL Musician’s Exchange
Nov 14 Pitman, NJ Pitman High School
Nov 15 Mexico, NY Arena’s Eis House (confirmed per article)
Nov 18 Annville, PA – Annville-Cleona High School (per Dan Potts)
Nov 20-23 Washington, DC Blues Alley
December
No December dates on record
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