Results for "California"

Half Moon Bay Wine & Jazz Festival 2026

by Walter Atkins
July 3, 2026

Bob Dylan at the Rady Shell

by Hobart Taylor
June 27, 2026

Bob DylanRady Shell San Diego, CA June 21, 2026 Like a hoodoo echo emerging from the depths of a bottomless cave, the voice, a rumbling baritone, rambled through the scattered brambles of his poetry. Obscured by low light, and a black hoodie's cowl, Bob Dylan was barricaded behind his keyboard and ...

Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
June 23, 2026

Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA, USA June 13, 2026 Born to a musical family in Quivicán, Cuba in October 1941, Chucho Valdés's given name is Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez. His father, pianist, composer, and bandleader Ramón Bebo Valdes, introduced him to the piano at age three. ...

Chucho Valdés and His Royal Quartet at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
June 18, 2026

Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA June 14, 2026   Sunday night at Miner Auditorium marked the fourth and final night of a residency four months in the making. Chucho Valdes and his Royal Quartet were originally booked for late February 2026, then rescheduled to June--and by the time ...

Miguel Zenon Quartet at Sam First

by Hobart Taylor
June 3, 2026

Miguel Zenon Quartet Sam First Los Angeles, CA May 29, 2026 Miguel Zenon and his compadres modus operandi was to start tunes in the middle, drive past a climax and find a new revelatory center to conclude. It's as if the tunes were soaring overhead and the band reached up to ...

Terence Blanchard & Ravi Coltrane: Miles Davis & John Coltrane Centennial At Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
June 2, 2026

Terence Blanchard & Ravi Coltrane Miner Auditorium Miles Davis & John Coltrane Centennial San Francisco, CAMay 31, 2026 At SFJAZZ's Miner Auditorium, Blanchard and Coltrane treated the Miles Davis songbook as an ongoing conversation. Over the past six months, Bay Area jazz fans have enjoyed a series of ...

The Man Behind The Sessions: Why Artists, Producers, And Studios Keep Calling Jose Luis Castro

May 28, 2026

In music, the most influential artists are not always the ones with their faces on a billboard. Oftentimes, they are the people who get the call before the call — the ones artists trust to compose music for their albums, the ones producers trust with deadlines, and the ones studios hand the keys to when they ...

Jose Castro Is Creating Music For A World Without Borders

May 28, 2026

Jose Luis Castro, who also performs under the stage name “J. Jeaux," came up in a music business that no longer asks artists to stay in one lane. The old categories — recording artist, producer, composer, sound designer — still exist, but for many modern musicians, those lines have started to blur. Castro, who records under ...

Gunhild Carling and her Jazz Band at Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
May 27, 2026

Gunhild Carling and her Jazz Band Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA May 24, 2026 About 45 minutes before showtime, Gunhild Carling was her own roadie. Meticulously, she arranged her merchandise table at the Joe Henderson Lab--custom-designed ties in the center, posters, bags, and her paintings to the left, and albums and ...

Paramax Films Announces Global Premiere Of Concert Film: John Beasley's 'Unlimited Miles: Live From Blue Note Tokyo,' May 26 Miles Davis's Centennial Birthday

May 24, 2026

Landmark Concert Film Premieres May 26, 2026‚ Miles Davis's Centennial Birthday Available Worldwide on Mezzo TV and Medici.tv Streaming Platform Paramax Films today announced the global release of John Beasley's Unlimited Miles: Live from Blue Note Tokyo, a concert film capturing an electrifying performance at the iconic Blue Note Tokyo. The film premieres on May 26, ...