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Jazz Vocalist Dirk Etienne returns to L.A. to perform at the Vibrato Grill Jazz etc... on October 17th

October 8, 2010

Dirk Etienne will return to Los Angeles to perform at the Vibrato in Bel Air on Sunday, October 17th at 6:30 p.m. Dirk will take the stage with Mark LeVang, Jim Fox and other top L.A. musicians to perform selections from his first jazz album, High Standards. Mark, whose music credits include working with Natalie Cole, ...

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Blanton!

October 6, 2010

Bassist Jimmy Blanton was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on this date in 1918. He was the first great innovative jazz double bassist, known mainly for his recordings with Duke Ellington from 1939 to 1941. Before Blanton, the bass was used primarily to lay down the beat and provide the harmonic underpinnings for a tune. Blanton played ...

Daren Burns' Onibaba and Open Gate Theatre @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock 10-17-10

October 6, 2010

Open Gate Theatre @ (626)795-4989 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Onibaba: 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. Created by Daren Burns in 2006, the band synthesizes its sound by using elements of the Chicago avant-garde, jazz, ...

Archie Shepp - "In a Sentimental Mood" (1978)

October 5, 2010

Peter Erskine's The Interlochen Concert: An All-star Trio Returns To Their Roots

October 5, 2010

Los Angeles, CA—The brilliant and highly versatile drummer Peter Erskine attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1968 as a high school student, graduated in 1971 and returned a few months later to play a gig there with college classmate pianist Alan Pasqua in the fall of that year. On April 8, 2009, Erskine, Pasqua were joined ...

Kidd Karrim's "PASAJE" - Explodes WorldWide!

October 4, 2010

New York, NY (Top40 Latin Charts/ PASAJE C.U.B.A.)—Can you say “ nuevo-latin, jazz, funk and fusion in the same sentence. Apparently so! A multi-talented musician-performance artist-videographer-designer, KIDD KARRIM describes her new “PASAJE—From There To Here" 12 track super dynamic CD as: Tjader meets Jobim meets Tito. If you love the music of the young, nuevo latin ...

Open Gate Theatre @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Daren Burns' Onibaba Oct. 17, 2010

October 4, 2010

Open Gate Theatre @ (626) 795-4989 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Daren Burns' ONIBABA Onibaba performs post Jazz/Rock explorations featuring: Vinny Golia—Woodwinds Daren Burns—Fretless Bass George McMullen—Trombone Scott Collins—Guitar Craig Bunch—Drumset Kio Griffith—Live Video INFO: Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bassist, composer, and ...

Jazz Poetry - "Copacetic Mingus"

October 2, 2010

Copacetic Mingus by Yusef Komunyakaa “Mingus One, Two and Three. Which is the image you want the world to see?" —Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog Heartstring. Blessed wood & every moment the thing's made of: ball of fatbacklicked by fingers of fire. Hard love, it's hard love. Running big hands down the upright's wide hips, rocking ...

Enter Music Publishing Presses "Rock Royalty Issue" Featuring Tommy Lee And John Bonham; Looking Back And Drumming Forward

October 1, 2010

San Jose, Calif.,—Enter Music Publishing, publishers of DRUM!, has published a very special “Rock Royalty" Issue. Featuring kings of the throne, Mötely Crüe's Tommy Lee and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, DRUM! explores the impact of these percussion heroes in the present and the past. And to celebrate the rock royalty issue Enter Music Publishing is offering ...

Acclaimed jazz musicians to perform at Claremont Graduate University on October 4

October 1, 2010

Chris Williams, winner of the numerous vocal jazz awards, will be performing with his All-Star Band that includes 5 Grammy Award winners Fullerton, CA October 1, 2010—Jazz singer Chris Williams and his All Star Jazz Band will perform in the Harper Courtyard at Claremont Graduate University on Monday, October 4. The concert begins at 5:15 p.m. ...