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News: Obituary

Herb Wong, jazz icon and educator, dies at 88

April 21, 2014

Easter Sunday this year saw the passing of Herb Wong, 88, a long-time Menlo Park resident renowned internationally as a jazz expert and educator. A mysterious box sparked Mr. Wong's lifelong fascination with jazz. As young boys, he and his brother Elwood had just moved with their parents to Stockton when a package arrived on the ...

News: Radio

Sweets Edison This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

April 17, 2014

This week Riverwalk Jazz presents Harry “Sweets" Edison in an encore presentation captured live at The Landing in San Antonio with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Edison died in 1999 at the age of 83. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of ...

News: Crowdfunding Campaign

NEA Jazz Master Bill Holman To Be Film Subject

April 16, 2014

Kathryn King Media has announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of Charting Jazz: The Mastery of Bill Holman, a documentary about the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. The film will shine a light on the extraordinary Mr. Holman, a tenor saxophonist, bandleader, arranger and composer long deeply respected and revered by his ...

News: Radio

Radio's Voice Of Jazz Launches Internet Broadcasts

April 15, 2014

Palm Springs, CA ― Legendary KFI jazz radio announcer Scott Ellsworth launched scottsplacetm.org, an online weekend broadcast where he plays both the early and contemporary sounds of leading jazz artists and where listeners can soon find an extensive library of his personal interviews with the icons of the jazz world. “My very first guest interview at ...

News: Radio

Guitarists Marty Grosz And Howard Alden This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

April 10, 2014

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a show devoted to pioneers of jazz guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough and Django Reinhardt. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Kuumbwa Jazz In Santa Cruz, Yoshi's San Francisco, April 11 & 13

April 8, 2014

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform April 11 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA and April 13 at Yoshi’s San Francisco. The trio, led by jazz pianist, composer and arranger Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note Records artist, features bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr.. The concerts are part of a west ...

News: Recording

Mo'Fone Releases "'Fonology"

April 7, 2014

Award-Winning Trio’s Third Album Release Party at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA, Thursday, May 15 The award-winning saxophones-and-drums trio MO’FONE release their 3rd album, 'Fonology, with all new original compositions mixing meaty New Orleans Funk with Bay Area free-range Jazz. With Larry De La Cruz and Jim Peterson on saxophones and Jeremy Steinkoler on drums and ...

Article: Live Review

So Cal Jazz 2013: Highlights and a Serious Low

by Chuck Koton
April 4, 2014

Azar Lawrence Quartet RG Club Venice, CA January-September 2013 2013, already slipping deep into the fog of forgetfulness, had its share of memorable jazz moments here in Southern California. And while, according to the Western, as well as the Chinese calender ( Happy Year of the Horse!), this review and these ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Dizzy's (san Diego), Blue Whale (los Angeles), April 9-10

April 4, 2014

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will travel to California to present a series of concerts, starting with Dizzy's in San Diego on April 9 and the Blue Whale in Los Angeles on April 10. The trio, led by dazzling jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note Records artist, features bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Mark Whitfield, ...

News: Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Clarinet Marmalade

April 3, 2014

This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers an exploration of great pre-WWII voices of jazz clarinet with the help of prominent contemporary exponents of the “old school." Evan Christopher, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern and Ken Peplowski perform with the Band and talk about their mentors and influences. The program is distributed in ...