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Daren Burns's Onibaba @ Blue Whale (Los Angeles) on March 23rd
Daren Burns's Onibaba will be playing Blue Whale jazz club on March 23rd. ONIBABA exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly —Creative Music. The band was recently placed on the LA County Arts Commission's band roster for the 2011-14 term. DAREN ...
Harmonious duo of Brulée delivers a twist on jazz in sparkling debut album
Her voice is a crystalline beauty, as emotionally fragile as Karen Carpenter and silky smooth like velvet; it's so clear you can almost see through it, flowing gently like liquid. His voice has the deep timbre of the blues and the gentle spirit of folk. Known together as Brulée, Julie Weiner and Doug Onstad weave a ...
Lead singer of Santa Barbara jazz band Sally Cats finds success with local music publication
Print isn't dead, at least not in Santa Barbara, California. Just ask Sally Barr, the editor/publisher of Music! The Sounds of Santa Barbara, a monthly magazine focusing on the region's diverse music scene, especially its jazz players. And Barr certainly has enough credentials to pull off such a locally-focused publication, having been an integral part of ...
The Ten Best Moments at the 53rd Annual Grammys
Before this year's Grammy awards are incorrectly written off as a series of acrimonious disappointments and bizarre twists, it's important to quickly note several very good things that happened. Not that it's easy to overlook the Grammy for Record of the Year going to a country band's tune that could well become subject to a plagiarism ...
Evan Weiss Project Releases "Math Or Magic" on Inner Circle Music
Composer/trumpeter EVAN WEISS Celebrates the CD Release of his debut MATH OR MAGIC at DAN'S SILVERLEAF Sunday, Feb 20 Catch this Rare Appearance of Weiss's Large Ensemble Performing New Music From His Inner Circle Music Release Evan Weiss was born and raised near Seattle, Washington and now back in North ...
Vintage Dizzy
Dizzy Gillespie: Livein '58 & '70 (2006), part ofthe Jazz Icons series of DVDs, presents another gem with these two concerts ofDizzy Gillespie. In the earlier date from Belgium, Gillespie is in a smallgroup setting—a fantastic quintet with Sonny Stitt on sax, Lou Levy on piano,Ray Brown on bass, and Gus Johnson on drums. The hip ...
Tina Sinatra Laments the Loss of Her Dad Frank and the Death of Rat Pack Cool
It's been around 50 years since the Rat Pack, perhaps the world's first supergroup, hit the Las Vegas strip, and they've defined cool ever since. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. personified an era where music was smooth, cocktails were neat and the way you wore your hat meant everything. ...
Happy Birthday, Wingy Manone!
Trumpeter, singer, and composer Joseph “Wingy" Manone was born on this date in 1900. As a boy in New Orleans, he lost an arm as a result of a streetcar accident, but this didn't stop him from taking up a musical instrument. His nickname has to rank as a bitof gallows humor, although Manone's 1948 autobiography ...
