Home » Search Center » Results: California

Results for "California"

News: Festival

30th Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival Lineup Announced

June 11, 2012

Randall Kline, the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ—the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast—today announced the artist lineup for the 30th Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival running August 25 to December 7, 2012. The festival will celebrate the organization’s thirtieth anniversary by presenting thirty concerts from a global range of artists including ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Has A New Home At Silver Lake’s El Cid Venue Hosted By Singer Kaylene Peoples And The Indie Hotspot

June 9, 2012

Jazz singer Kaylene Peoples and El Cid promoter Michael McCarthy have teamed up to bring jazz to Silver Lake. Once a month Kaylene will have a star-studded themed evening with her talented band and a special guest performer. “The Indie Hotspot Silver Lake Jazz Series” launches June 13, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. Kaylene will be performing ...

News: Recording

Legendary Powerpop Band Shoes To Release First All-new Album In 18 Years

June 8, 2012

Legendary power-pop band and indie-rock pioneers’ 15-track disc Ignition due August 14 ZION, Ill. — Shoes, the trailblazing guitar-pop combo from tiny Zion, Illinois — who in the 1970s prefigured the home-recording DIY boom of the ’90s and beyond — release their first album of new material since 1994 on August 14, 2012. Ignition switches on with ...

News: Festival

Monterey Jazz Festival's Monterey County All-Star Band and Vocal Honor Jazz Ensemble Perform in British Columbia and Seattle, June 29-July 4

June 3, 2012

Monterey Jazz Festival’s Monterey County All-Star Band and Vocal Honor Jazz Ensemble Perform in British Columbia and Seattle, June 29-July 4 All-Star Band and Vocal Ensemble Perform at San Jose Jazz Festival, August 11; Jazz on the Plazz in Los Gatos, August 22; West End Celebration in Sand City, August 24; and at 55th Monterey Jazz ...

News: Recording

Delta Groove Records Releases The Mannish Boys New Album Double Dynamite

May 24, 2012

Van Nuys, CA: Delta Groove Music is releasing a new double CD from its roster artist The Mannish Boys titled Double Dynamite. This will the band’s fifth studio recording. The Delta Groove label prides itself with select releases that celebrate the blues tradition and with this smokin’ hot release the blues come alive with 13 tracks ...

News: Performance / Tour

Hristo Vitchev / Weber Iago / Christian Tamburr - "Heartmony 3" - Live At "Bach And Dynamite" on June 17

May 24, 2012

Bulgarian modern Jazz Guitarist/Composer Hristo Vitchev presents the music from his latest and critically acclaimed record “HEARTMONY" with Brazilian piano sensation and Latin Grammy Nominee Weber Iago and virtuoso vibraphonist Downbeat award winner Christian Tamburr. SUNDAY, JUNE 17th 4:30pm BACH DANCING AND DYNAMITE 311 Mirada Road Half Moon ...

News: Recording

Mykazoo Music And Universal To Release Randy Kaplan's Blues CD For Kids, "Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie" July 10

May 24, 2012

Los Angeles, CA: myKaZoo Music, the new family imprint of Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), announces its second release, Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie, Randy Kaplan’s child-friendly versions of country blues and ragtime numbers from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The new CD, featuring extensive liner notes so that kids may learn more about America’s great musical heritage, ...

News: TV / Film

The Last Mambo: A Documentary Celebrating The Salsa/Latin Jazz Community Of The San Francisco Bay Area

May 22, 2012

BERKELEY, CA: THE LAST MAMBO is a dynamic exploration of the past, present and future of Salsa/Latin Jazz community in the San Francisco Bay area. THE LAST MAMBO traces the 60+ year evolution of the West Coast Latin sound, a potent gumbo of Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz harmonies and funk infused grooves. THE LAST MAMBO, shot and ...

News: Performance / Tour

Free Concert May 22 with MPC Swing Band, Monterey County High School All-Star Combo

May 18, 2012

Monterey Peninsula College’s Free Annual Spring Concert Features MPC Swing Band, Monterey Jazz Festival’s County High School All-Star Combo, May 22 at MPC Music Hall Donations Also Accepted for Monterey Jazz Festival’s County High School All-Star Band’s 2012 Tour of the Pacific Northwest Monterey, CA; The Monterey Peninsula College Swing Band will present its annual Spring ...

News: Recording

Sylvia Brooks Explores The Noir Side Of Jazz In New CD Release "Restless"

May 12, 2012

LOS ANGELES, CA: Acclaimed jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks returns with her second genre-busting release Restless, exploring the hungers that haunt us, the passions that drive us and the compulsions that send us careening deliciously close to the edge of the abyss. Initial discussions with arranger and producer Kim Richmond brought forth several ideas. “I wanted to ...