Results for "Mike Flick"

Mike Flick

Edwin Alley

By Doug MacDonald

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Zoot and Pepper; Eyow/This Is It; Benedetto’s Theme; Three for Two; Groove Blues; JT; Rapini; Tuned Out; You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To.

Doug MacDonald Trio: Edwin Alley

by Jack Bowers
August 15, 2023

Los Angeles-based guitarist Doug MacDonald, busy as ever, is comfortable in any setting, from big band to solo. On Edwin Alley, MacDonald leads a trio (Mike Flick, bass; Kendall Kay, drums) through eight of his bright and well-drawn original compositions and one standard, the amorous entreaty “You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To." The album ...

Doug MacDonald: Serenade to Highland Park

by Richard J Salvucci
May 5, 2022

According to Kirk Silsbee, noted jazz writer and student of the LA jazz scene, Highland Park is “mainly Latino, though working-class art types live there and have their studios there. And it's at the foot of Mt Washington, a place for arty affluence." Well, if Highland Park is the new trendy place to be, ...

Serenade to Highland Park

By Doug MacDonald

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Days of Wine and Roses; Manha de Carnaval; Next Time You See Me; Hortense; Dearly Beloved; More Than You Know; Shadow Waltz; They Say It’s Wonderful; Brazil; Serenade to Highland Park; Frenesi; You Stepped Out of a Dream.

Doug MacDonald: Serenade to Highland Park

by Jack Bowers
December 10, 2021

On Serenade to Highland Park, three consummate professionals salute the Los Angeles neighborhood in which the album was recorded. The three are guitarist Doug MacDonald, bassist Mike Flick and drummer Paul Kreibich, each of whom is among the best-known and busiest jazz musicians on the West Coast. Listening to them play is akin to catching a ...

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

by Jack Bowers
June 14, 2013

Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...