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Jazz Pianist George Kahn Releases 8th Album - "Jazz & Blues Revue” Featuring Singers Courtney Lemmon, Gina Saputo And Crystal Starr
Jazz pianist George Kahn feels his fans are ready for a change, so he formed the Jazz & Blues Revue. More than just another jazz ensemble this time around, the Jazz & Blues Revue brings three of the best singers in Los Angeles together to perform unique arrangements of jazz standards along with other well-known songs, ...
Monterey Jazz Festival 2014
by Josef Woodard
Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 19-21, 2014 Working the Numbers, and Young People Going Deep Numbers worked in mysterious, seemingly synchronistic ways at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival, which celebrated its 57th anniversary year partly by also respectfully toasting the 75th anniversary of the ...
Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Steve Heckman has been dishing up rock solid mainstream jazz in the quartet and quintet settings since 2003's For John (World City Music), a tribute disc to the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane. That debut and his two subsequent offerings, Live at Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005) and Born to Be Blue (Jazzed Media, 2013), held ...
World-Renowned Guitar Player Steve Hunter Releases Live CD & DVD
Los Angeles, CA - For the first time ever, Blues Rock Guitarist Steve Hunter, renowned for his work with Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper, is captured on film playing a career-spanning anthology in an intimate setting with some of the worlds finest players. Also featuring Tony Levin, Phil Aaberg and Alvino Bennett! The DVD, ...
"16 Songs" Video Album From Allison Crowe = Music + Movie Magic
"Soulful. Alive. Joyous. Grievous. Real, true, music is what I want to make." That’s how Allison Crowe framed things near the start of this century before launching Rubenesque Records Ltd., one of the world’s truly independent music labels. Through legendary live performances, broadcasts, and a dynamic oeuvre of recordings, globally-acclaimed and loved, Crowe’s distinguished herself among ...
Resonance Jazz Ensemble Premieres Fearless Force Concert At SFJAZZ Center
Resonance Jazz Ensemble, the Bay Area’s one-of-a-kind jazz octet premieres new works pushing the jazz envelope in their Fearless Force concert at the SF Jazz Center’s Robert A. Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco on Saturday, October 18th at 8 pm. The band will introduce new compositions by band members with arrangements of jazz and ...
Angel City Jazz Festival Kicks Off 2 Weeks Of Music
This weekend the 7th Annual Angel City Jazz Festival opens in Los Angeles. Rocco Somazzi founded the festival in order to present non-commercial jazz to an LA audience which had scant exposure to music from the more adventurous end of the jazz spectrum. Back in 2008, 13 different bands, highlighted by the inimitable alto saxophonist, Arthur ...
Salif Keita at Yoshi's San Francisco
by Harry S. Pariser
Salif KeitaYoshi'sSan Francisco, CA September 7, 2014 Any opportunity to see Salif Keita, the 65-year-old “Golden Voice of Africa" is a special occasion indeed. Keita, a 40-year-plus veteran of the music scene, is one of Africa's top musical stars, one who travels all over the world. He sings ...
John Handy at Yoshi's San Francisco
by Harry S. Pariser
John Handy Yoshi's San Francisco San Francisco, California August 31, 2014 If one thinks of iconic Bay Area musicians, saxophonist John Handy immediately comes to mind. Born in 1933 in Dallas, Texas, Handy is an accomplished horn player who, while best known for his work on alto, also plays ...
Gerald Wilson dies at 96; multifaceted jazz musician
Gerald Wilson, a bandleader, trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from the swing era of the 1930s to the diverse jazz sounds of the 21st century, has died. He was 96. Wilson, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, two weeks after contracting pneumonia, said his ...
