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News: Recording

Veteran Cuban Musician Rey Cabrera Spices Up The Summer With A Brand New Album

July 30, 2014

Los Angeles, CA - Cuban born vocalist and master of the tres, a traditional Cuban style guitar, brings his finest latin jazz music to the North American audiences this coming August 5th. The extraordinary new album, Cabrera’s third full-length as Rey Cabrera y Sus Amigos, is entitled Controversia, and will be released on both CD and ...

News: Event

Ed Motta 2014 US Tour! Plus Katia Moraes, Daniel Carneiro & DJ Potira

July 26, 2014

At The King King in Hollywood on August 3, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. “Ed Motta pushes all the right retro buttons. There are blasts of soul-jazz and blues-rock and a library of funky dance grooves, replayed in the spirit of the originals.” John L. Watters, The Guardian Los Angeles – Brazilian Nites Productions, presenters of the ...

News: Event

Trumpeter Ian Carey To Premiere "Interview Music: A Suite For Quintet+1" In Berkeley, Sept. 20

July 25, 2014

“The first thing you need to know about ‘Interview Music,’” says Bay Area trumpeter and composer Ian Carey about his new jazz suite, “is that it’s not about trying to get more interviews.” (Though he’s not averse to the idea, he adds.) The piece, which will be premiered at the California Jazz Conservatory (formerly the Jazzschool) ...

Article: Album Review

Denny Zeitlin: Stairway to the Stars

Read "Stairway to the Stars" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 22, 2014

Pianist Denny Zeitlin's Stairway to the Stars recording sparkles to life on the familiar Great American Songbook jewel, “There Will Never Be Another You." This version has everything that the best piano trio efforts offer: elegance, inspired three-way interplay, a vivacious groove--thanks to drummer Matt Wilson and bassist Buster Williams--and Zeitlin's always supple touch and endless ...

News: Obituary

Pete Douglas, Founder of Half Moon Bay’s Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Dies at 85

July 19, 2014

Legendary Impresario was Inspiration to Local and National Musicians, and Presenters Half Moon Bay, CA: Pete Douglas, founder of the world-renowned music and jazz club, the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay, Calif., died peacefully in Miramar Beach on July 12, 2014 at age 85. Pete Douglas was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Jon Hassell: City: Works of Fiction (Expanded Edition)

by John Kelman
July 17, 2014

Originally released in 1990 on Brian Eno's forward-thinking Opal Records and reissued again, two years later, on All Saints Records, Jon Hassell's City: Works of Fiction was the trumpeter/keyboardist/conceptualist's fourth “official" installment in the Fourth World series that began with Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (EG, 1980), followed by Fourth World Vol. 2: Dream Theory ...

News: Education

Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony Goes International: 28 High School Musicians From Around World Part Of Expanded Program

July 15, 2014

The 2014 summer jazz scene has a decidedly international feel. High school jazz musicians from the United Kingdom and Australia will join American counterparts in the Sierra Nevada to hone their skills through rigorous musical instruction and perform two public concerts during the 2014 Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony to be held Aug. 3-8 in Incline Village, ...

News: Obituary

Pete Douglas: 1929 - 2014

July 14, 2014

Prentice “Pete" Douglas , founder of the legendary Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society and owner of the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay California passed yesterday, July 12th. He was 85. For more than 50 years Douglas brought to the Bach some of the finest jazz musicians ever to grace any jazz stage in the ...

News: Festival

SFJAZZ Center Announces 2014-15 Season 3 Artist Programming

July 14, 2014

Randall Kline, Founder and Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ, today announced the artist lineup for the SFJAZZ Center’s 2014-15 Season running September 11, 2014 to May 31, 2015. The award-winning SFJAZZ Center opened on January 21, 2013 in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood and has been recognized as one of the best new performing arts centers ...

Article: Live Review

Halie Loren at the Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society

by Bill Leikam
July 13, 2014

Halie Loren Quartet Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society aka Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CaliforniaJune 22, 2014 Topping off the late afternoon at the Bach, the Halie Loren Quartet took the stage, ready to give the audience the gift of song. The quartet was composed of Brian West on drums, ...