Results for "California"

Happy Birthday, Nina Simone!

February 20, 2011

Vintage Dizzy

February 18, 2011

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

February 15, 2011

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!

February 14, 2011

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 ...

Grammy Winner Stanley Clarke Reflects On His Win And Two Nominations

February 14, 2011

Jazz bass legend Stanley Clarke is thrilled to win 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album with his most recent CD, The Stanley Clarke Band, on the Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group, and the Roxboro Entertainment Group label. He was also nominated in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Performance, “No ...

Henry Kuntz "Sonic Flares" Free CD Download

February 14, 2011

A FREE MP3 Download of my New Release... SONIC FLARES is available on my website SAX & STORIES 1. SONIC FLARES (19:11) Solo Tenor Saxophone Live at Beanbenders, Berkeley, CA October 4, 1998 2. 6 TRACK ANGELS (20:12) Balinese Gamelan (Gender, 10 keys) and ...

Louis Armstrong and Rex Harrison - "Now You Has Jazz" (1957)

February 12, 2011

2011 Playboy Jazz Line-Up Announced

February 11, 2011

By Chuck Koton There are many reasons for Americans to express their collective gratitude to Hugh Hefner. He played a fundamental role in sophisticating society's senses in the1950s. And there are the women. There is the ground breaking path Hef carved in transcending the puritanical sexual mores of the Eisenhower era. And there are the women. ...

Music Podcast Show Seeking Artists And Bands

February 7, 2011

PERFORMERS CAFE, a new music podcast show, features the music of established and up- and-coming musicians, singer-songwriters and bands from the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. We include various genres of music including Jazz, Rock, R&B/Soul, World Music, Alternative, Reggae and more. If you are interested in having your music featured on one of our upcoming ...

L.A. Artist Beat: Theo Bleckmann at the Broad Stage

February 7, 2011

THEO BLECKMANN: BERLIN TO LAS VEGAS The Edye at the Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CA Saturday, February 12, 7:30pm Theo Bleckmann: voice with Paul Romero: piano and The Bauhaus String Quartet: Elizabeth Hedman: violin Daphne Chen: violin Michael Lieberman: viola Paula Fehrenbach: cello Arrangements by Fumio ...