The tour launches September 11 at the Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry, N.H., and runs through the end of the month. Highlights include stops at World Café Live in Philadelphia (September 13), B.B. King’s Blues Club in New York City (September 17), Birchmere in Alexandria, Va. (September 21), Harpers Ferry near Boston (September 24), and Café Campus in Montreal (September 27).

The musician will also make an appearance during Moogfest September 22 at B.B. King’s Blues Club in New York City. The annual event, which honors electronic music pioneer Robert Moog, features performances by Dolby, Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Adam Holzman (Miles Davis), Spiraling, Don Preston (Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention), Gershon Kingsley, Herb Deutsch, Erik Norlander and others.

In October, Dolby will head back across the pond for a handful of shows in the U.K., hitting London, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham and Islington.

Dolby recently released a five-song EP, Thomas Dolby & the Jazz Mafia Horns: Live @ SXSW, featuring four originals – including “Your Karma Hit My Dogma,” which was inspired by his legal battle with Kevin Federline over illegal samples – and a cover of George Clinton’s “Hot Sauce.”

The album is available at iTunes, CDBaby and ThomasDolby.com, as well as tour stops across North America, but will not be sold in traditional retail outlets.

Dolby explained that he hooked up with Jazz Mafia Horns (Rich Armstrong, Adam Theis and Joe Cohen) after he discovered the San Francisco club Jazz Mafia, where the house band can feature from three to thirteen brass players.

The musician said he decided the formal nature of electronica might benefit from being pitted against the spontaneity of live brass, so he got together with the group, worked out new arrangements of some of his songs and was delighted with the results