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Kuumbwa And The Magic of Monday Night
Monday nights, otherwise a down time for many music venues, have been magic for the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in jny: Santa Cruz, CA. Kuumbwa's most prominent shows occur, oddly, on off-calendar Monday nights or midweek, featuring headliners before or after their engagements nearby in jny: San Francisco and jny: Oakland and who are touring up or ...
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Keystone Korner 45th Anniversary Celebration
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Half Moon Bay, CA
July 7-8, 2017
Fabled jazz venue Keystone Korner commemorated its 45th year anniversary in spectacular style during the first week of July 2017. Producer Todd Barkan not only assembled a superb cast of original Keystone stalwarts and young ...
To Commemorate Keystone Korner's 45th Anniversary, Producer Todd Barkan Hosts 3 All-star Bay Area Shows July 7-8
The great pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams referred to Keystone Korner as “the Birdland of the
Seventies.” Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz all agreed that Keystone
Korner was “the best jazz club in the world.” Producer and former Keystone proprietor Todd Barkan feels strongly that “the
club most definitely had a transformational effect on the ...
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Todd Barkan: Early days of Keystone Korner
In the summer of 1972, at the age of 25, I was working by day as a Customs Broker for the venerable jny: San Francisco firm of Hoyt, Shepston & Sciaroni, and by night as a jazz pianist and arranger for an Afro Cuban jazz band called Kwane and the Kwandito's, which played a lot of ...
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Hr & Fru OrgelDuo Travels... by OrgelDuo
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The Transitory Poems by Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn
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Simple Life by Paul Jost
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Five Roads by Mauricio de Souza
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Jazz Story
I love jazz because of its ability to evoke such tremendous emotion... primarily joy! I was first exposed to jazz by my grandparents. The first jazz record I bought was Jim Beard's Song of the Sun or maybe Steely Dan's Aja. My advice to new listeners: remain varied in your listening habits, and of course keep listening, keep listening, keep listening!
By Frank Jacoby
Member since: 2019
