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Luther Hughes
Bassist Luther Hughes has played bass with some of the biggest names in jazz in a career spanning over 40 years. He has performed or recorded with jazz legends such as Gene Harris, Mundell Lowe, Joe Henderson, Carmen MacRae, Willie Bobo, Horace Silver, Harold Land, Don Ellis, Joe Pass, Louis Bellson, Hampton Hawes, Ronnell Bright, Herb Geller, Mal Waldron, Diana Krall, Michael Feinstein and many more. Luther received his training at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music and Long Beach City College, earning his bachelor's degree from Cal State Long Beach. His teachers included Alex Cirin, Thomas Martin, Nat Gangursky, Eileen Strang and Sue Raney
Doug MacDonald: Jazz Marathon 2
by Jack Bowers
For those who thought that guitarist Doug MacDonald's happy-go-lucky jazz marathon had crossed the finish line with the release more than a year ago of Just for Fun, the good news is that MacDonald and his talented teammates have found their second wind and the marathon continues through a second effervescent two-CD session taped at the ...
Doug MacDonald: Just for Fun
by Jack Bowers
While there are no household names on guitarist Doug MacDonald's new 2-CD set, Just for Fun (alto saxophonist Lanny Morgan or perhaps drummer Roy McCurdy may come closest), the sidemen he has chosen for a lively concert date billed as a jazz marathon" are more than likely among the more accomplished jazz musicians you've seldom or ...
Mort Weiss' E-book, "Sex And The Jazz Musician - The Hollywood Years And Beyond," Now Available
New E-Book Translates the Octogenarian Clarinetist’s Mort Report Columns from All About Jazz into an Autobiographic Series of Vignettes Complimented with Music and Video Sex and the Jazz Musician—The Hollywood Years and Beyond, an intriguing glimpse into the life and times of the world's greatest unemployed jazz clarinetist," 80-year old Mort Weiss, is now available as ...
Glenn Cashman's Southland Nonet: Music Without Borders
by Edward Blanco
Tenor saxophonist Professor Dr. Glenn Cashman and composer, lyricist and voice teacher Eric Futterer have been friends and collaborators in music for more than a decade. Years ago, with the help of veteran west coast bassist Howard Rumsey (Lighthouse All-Stars), Futterer and Cashman collaborated on their biggest effort to date when they founded the Muckenthaler Jazz ...
Buddy Rich: In a Zone of His Own
by Jack Bowers
One of the channels that came with my Dish Network package is Classic Arts Showcase, which is a treasure trove of film clips documenting classical, ballet, folk, pop and other forms of music that one is unlikely to see anywhere else (although some footage is presumably available on YouTube, which more and more seems to encompass ...
Cannonball Coltrane Project - No Mercy
Featuring the music of Luther Hughes
Duration: 6:25
12th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party
By Patricia Myers Tributes to Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson,Chet Baker, Paul Desmond and the Four Brothers" sound made famous by Woody Herman will be among the 44 sessions of the 12th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, Feb. 16-19 in at the Newport Beach Marriott in southern California. This year's edition has the biggest advance sale ...
Things Are Getting Better
Label: Primrose Lane
Released: 2011
Track listing: Jive Samba; Glo in the Dark; McCoy; Primrose Star; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Sunset at Hermosa; Blue Daniel; Samba Para Um Dia Chuvoso; Trane and Wayne; Things Are Getting Better; Green Bananas; Take the Coltrane.
Newport Beach (CA) Summer Jazz Series Begins July 6
Sunset Jazz at Newport, featuring straight ahead jazz from top jazz performers, begins July 6 and will continue for 11 summer Wednesday nights at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel in Southern California. The concerts take place at the outside Rose Garden, with patrons sitting comfortably at tables. There will be two sets, 6 and 7:30. Both ...