Results for "California"

George Kahn Quintet Returns to the Culver Club - with a Tribute To Horace Silver

May 1, 2011

The George Kahn Quintet, featuring George Kahn on piano, returns to the Culver Club in Culver City for an exciting night of West Coast Jazz on Friday, May 20th, 2011. The evening will feature music from George's most recent highly regarded album, Secrets From The Jazz Ghetto, as well as a very special tribute to the ...

Khalil Shaheed and Mansa Musa at HCA “Mali Meets Jazz”

April 30, 2011

Saturday, April 30 | 7 & 9 pm Healdsburg Center for the Arts 130 Plaza St., Healdsburg Tickets $25 each show Available online or at HCA The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is proud present Khalil Shaheed and Mansa Musa in a benefit concert co-presented by the Healdsburg Center for the Arts. ...

Playboy Jazz Festival To Present Justo Almario's Afro-Colombian Ensemble And Israeli Pianist Tamir Hendelman's Trio, In Free Community Concert Sunday, May 1st, At Beverly Hills Civic Center

April 28, 2011

Get ready for a little samba, a little sass, and a lot of jazz, when the acclaimed multi-talented master saxophonist and composer Justo Almario brings his distinctive fusion of jazz, South-American and world rhythms to Beverly Hills in a free concert on Sunday, May 1st. The show will also feature award-winning Israeli pianist Tamir Hendelman and ...

Happy Birthday, Ella Fitzgerald!

April 26, 2011

Anna Mjoll @ Herb Alpert's Vibrato - Almost Sold Out!

April 20, 2011

"Icelandic jazz diva Anna Mjöll plays another near-guaranteed sellout at Vibrato (April 23rd, 2011)" —Tom Meek, LA Jazz.com on “Whats Hot" in Los Angeles this week. ANNA MJOLL and THE PAT SENATORE TRIO ANNA MJOLL / vocals PAT SENATORE / bass ED CZACH / piano BOB LEATHERBARROW / drums Where: ...

Guitar Fest 2011 - featuring Hristo Vitchev / Rick Vandivier / Neil Kelly - April 28th at Club FOX (Redwood City, CA)

April 20, 2011

Guitar Fest 2011 showcases three of the hottest jazz guitarists in the S.F. Bay Area. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of these completely unique musicians on one stage. The impressionistic styling of Hristo Vitchev, the bluesy and groovy melodies of Rick Vandivier, and the hard-bop swing of Neil Kelly will simply fascinate you! ...

Ellis Marsalis Live in San Francisco

April 20, 2011

Ellis Marsalis is the patriarch of one of the most prominent jazz families in America. He has played piano and taught jazz in his native New Orleans for decades, but it is only since his more famous sons, particularly Wynton and Branford, have come to prominence that he has started to gain some well-deserved recognition. (Marsalis ...

Casey Abrams: New American Idol Contestant is a Messenger with a Jazz Message

April 18, 2011

Before last Wednesday, I was like more than a few music fans in my instinctive dislike of the American Idol phenomenon. Cheap and showy, lowest-common-denominator entertainment, it was created in the same terrifying cauldron that Fox's 1989 Cops voyeurism and MTV's 1992 Real World success originally inspired, and which has since produced Survivor, Big Brother, Fear ...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Theme for Stacy" (1966)

April 18, 2011

Danjam Orchestra NYC CD Release Party May 15

April 17, 2011

Fresh from two triumphant evenings where his Danjam Orchestra thrilled hometown crowds in Toronto, saxophonist/composer/educator Daniel Jamieson celebrates the May debut of SUDDEN APPEARANCE with a New York City CD release party at Miles' Café on May 15th, '11. Produced by esteemed pianist/composer/educator Jim McNeely, the disc features Jamieson's wide-ranging compositions and well-honed arranging skills, which ...