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Mike Clark at the Douglas Beach House
by Bill Leikam
Mike ClarkDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, Calif.Sept. 27, 2009 We all knew that when drummer Mike Clark came to the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Sept. 27, it was going to be a high-energy concert. This was true because coming in along with Mike were Donald Harrison ...
Larry Vuckovich and the Euro Trash Band at the Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay, CA
by Bill Leikam
Larry Vuckovich's Euro Trash BandDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CASept. 6, 2009 World renowned pianist Larry Vuckovich (of Montenegro), bassist Buca Necak (Serbia), drummer Paul Van Wageningen (Holland), Latin percussionist Hector Lugo (Puerto Rico), and featured vocalist Valeriana Quevedo (USA) gathered at the Douglas Beach House ...
z_Bug at the Flux 53 Theater in Oakland
by Bill Leikam
z_BugFlux 53 TheaterOakland, Calif.Aug. 25, 2009 “An Intimate Evening with z_Bug" filled Oakland's Flux 53 Theater with eloquent textures of sound, sometimes hypnotic, sometimes sonorous as though rising from the depths of a volcano and sometimes teetering just on the edge of silent space. z_Bug, creator of this edgy ...
Mel Martin Sextet at the Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay, CA
by Bill Leikam
Mel Martin Sextet Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CaliforniaAugust 16, 2009 Mel Martin and his sextet stepped into a “new" Douglas Beach House Sunday afternoon, August 16 and presented the first acoustic jazz concert to be held there in decades. During the previous week, owner and impresario Pete ...
Denise Donatelli and Geoffrey Keezer at the Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay, CA
by Bill Leikam
Denise Donatelli and Geoffrey KeezerDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaSunday, August 9, 2009Arriving at the Douglas Beach House after performing at the San Jose Jazz Festival, up and coming Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist Denise Donatelli brought with her a stellar jazz quartet featuring pianist Geoffrey Keezer on piano, bassist Hamilton Price, ...
Be-Bop at the Bach with Eric Alexander's Quartet and Jackie Ryan, Half Moon Bay, CA
by Bill Leikam
Eric Alexander Quartet and Jackie RyanDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaMay 10, 2009 Considered one of the top jazz tenor sax players of our time, Eric Alexander and his quartet laid down a heavy be-bop style show at the Douglas Beach House (aka Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society) in Half Moon ...
First Northern California Jazz Musicians Healthcare Benefit Concert
by Bill Leikam
First Northern California Healthcare Benefit ConcertVelma's Jazz and Blues ClubSaf Francisco, CaliforniaApril 23, 2009 On April 23rd, 2009 at Velma's Jazz and Blues Club, in San Francisco, California jazz trumpeter Eddie Gale launched the First Northern California charity concert to support healthcare for jazz musicians through the California Jazz Foundation. The ...
Omar Sosa: The Magic Piano Man and his Afreecanos Quartet
by Bill Leikam
Omar Sosa and his Afreecanos Quartet Douglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, San Francisco March 29, 2009 Before doing live reviews, I never go to the web and check up on the band or the people that I will see perform, preferring not to have any preconceived expectations of the musicians ...
Eddie Marshall Quartet featuring Nir Naaman at the Douglas Beach House, CA
by Bill Leikam
Eddie Marshall Quartet featuring Nir NaamanDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaMarch 22, 2009 According to the Lincoln Center's biography of featured performers, “Eddie Marshall is acknowledged as a leading figure in the evolution of San Francisco's contemporary jazz sound." Marshall's jazz drumming first came to this reviewer's notice back in the ...
Jean-Michel Pilc Trio at the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay
by Bill Leikam
Jean-Michel Pilc TrioDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaJanuary 25, 2009 Jean-Michel Pilc's fingers popped over the keyboard with an opening ferocity that awoke the Sunday audience, as though he were defying the listener not to be impressed by his piano style. He tends to put his whole body into playing, drawing ...
