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SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Win Numerous Awards; Upcoming Auditions & Performances

May 16, 2013

SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast, today announced the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars received three major awards including DownBeat Magazines’ Student Music Awards, the coveted Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival Award for Best Conglomerate Big Band Performance, and Best Big Band and Best Combo at the 5th Annual Charles Mingus High School ...

Article: Album Review

Dawes: Stories Don't End

Read "Stories Don't End" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 12, 2013

Wrapped in funereal black graphics inside and out, the music of Dawes' third studio album radiates an ambivalence that undermines its ambition.Choosing to record Stories Don't End on the east coast and enlisting the production assistance of Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon, among others), Dawes has taken great pains to ...

Article: Tell Me More

Diana Krall: Rediscovering Vaudeville in Glad Rag Doll

by Belinda Ware
May 11, 2013

Diana Krall is more than just a jazz songstress. She established herself as a solid interpreter of standards with her rendition of the Dusty Springfield's classic, “The Look of Love," making her mark with notable acoustic arrangements coupled with openly sensuous vocals carrying the tune. Krall is one of the jazz world's uniquely eclectic ...

Article: Live Review

Denise Donatelli and Geoffrey Keezer Quartet: Half Moon Bay, CA, April 13, 2013

by Bill Leikam
May 10, 2013

Denise Donatelli and Geoffrey Keezer QuartetDouglas Beach House aka Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society/ConcertHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaApril 21, 2013Two-time Grammy nominee Denise Donatelli once again teamed up with master pianist Geoffrey Keezer for the singer's performance at the Bach Dynamite and Dancing Society. Aside from these two principals, Essiet ...

Article: Album Review

Herd of Instinct: Conjure

Read "Conjure" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 10, 2013

Celebrated Southern Californian progressive-rock band Djam Karet has extended the scope of its Firepool Records label by signing Herd of Instinct. With the ensemble's sophomore release for the label, Karet guitarist Gayle Ellett augments the core trio by performing on a vast array of keyboards, and uses the Mellotron as a vehicle to summon a classic ...

News: Recording

Globetrotting Guitarist Lawson Rollins Comes “Full Circle”

May 10, 2013

July 16th release bodes to harness the “Momentum” generated by over 7.5 million YouTube views San Francisco, CA: Having traversed the world in search of intriguing sounds from virtually every corner of the globe with his beloved Spanish guitar en tow, Lawson Rollins has come full circle on his aptly titled fourth solo album, “Full Circle,” ...

News: Recording

Guitarist Wolfgang Schalk Releases Special Remix Of "The Second Third Man"

May 9, 2013

Release Date: June 11, 2013 / Label: Frame Up Music / Format: CD, Digital Download By Walter Kolosky The collaboration with Michael Brecker was a dream come true. By 1996 standards, the compositions and performances on Wolfgang Schalkʼs The Second Third Man were impressive. The title cut stood out, as I wrote previously: “The Second Third ...

News: Recording

Bay Area's Park St. Trio Set to Release "3 Plus 5" on June 7, 2013

May 8, 2013

Alameda, CA: Park St. Trio, one of the Bay Area's emergent jazz ensembles, will release its second album on June 7, 2013. The new album, “3 Plus 5," is more adventurous and highlights their growth as a band. The songwriting leans more modern while maintaining the strong melodies that makes their music enjoyable. The band has ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Heckman Quartet / Quintet: Born To Be Blue

Read "Born To Be Blue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 6, 2013

Saxophonist Steve Heckman often intentionally stands in the shadow of John Coltrane, as demonstrated on With John In Mind {World City Music, 2003) and Live At Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005), but he's no Coltrane clone. Heckman has absorbed bits and pieces of many masters, so a less exuberant, matte finished take on Sonny Rollins, a ...

News: Radio

Jazz Ballads This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 2, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it's “Gentle Giants: The Beauty of The Jazz Ballad." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded ...