We slipped up last week and totally forgot the Monterey Jazz on Tour was at Royce Hall last Thursday.
They're calling them the MJF/52 All-Stars, with pianist Kenny Barron, violinist Regina Carter, guitarist Russell Malone, vocalist Kurt Elling, bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and the brilliant Johnathan Blake on the drums. Real live jazz stars, most of them, and if not TMZ fodder, they certainly rate high in our passionate little music world.
They're down in Costa Mesa at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Saturday night(April 25th). It'll be a major jazz event with terrific music, and while terrific music is in no short supply (just read on), jazz does need some major events, if only to get people to notice.
Casual fans will see this band and, minds blown, maybe they'll check out Charlie O's or the World Stage or even some L.A. Jazz Collective craziness. That's how this stuff grows, just a fan or two or three at a time.
Think Minton's, where bop was born: Just a bar, a smattering of folks just like you and some crazy, inspired music. A jazz dive full of jazz people digging jazz music. That's what this stuff is.
They're calling them the MJF/52 All-Stars, with pianist Kenny Barron, violinist Regina Carter, guitarist Russell Malone, vocalist Kurt Elling, bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and the brilliant Johnathan Blake on the drums. Real live jazz stars, most of them, and if not TMZ fodder, they certainly rate high in our passionate little music world.
They're down in Costa Mesa at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Saturday night(April 25th). It'll be a major jazz event with terrific music, and while terrific music is in no short supply (just read on), jazz does need some major events, if only to get people to notice.
Casual fans will see this band and, minds blown, maybe they'll check out Charlie O's or the World Stage or even some L.A. Jazz Collective craziness. That's how this stuff grows, just a fan or two or three at a time.
Think Minton's, where bop was born: Just a bar, a smattering of folks just like you and some crazy, inspired music. A jazz dive full of jazz people digging jazz music. That's what this stuff is.
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