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Rubén Blades at the Oakland Paramount Theater
by Roy Strassman
Rubén Blades Paramount Theater Oakland, CA November 20, 2021 The November night was brisk, and the expectant crowd gradually swelled. Sausage vendors were selling onion-and pepper-laden sandwiches right alongside the scalpers. The queues were long—for checking vaccine cards and gaining entry or even just to partake of a juicy pre-show ...
Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Sauce: Adding Spice to Charlie Brown Vanilla
by Arthur R George
It's not simply that pianist Vince Guaraldi slipped jazz past the unsuspecting in composing A Charlie Brown Christmas, the evergreen “Peanuts" animation and soundtrack that has become inescapably part of the holiday. First broadcast in 1965, going on to six decades ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas is a tradition unto itself. It returns to television through ...
SFJAZZ Collective at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
SFJAZZ Collective SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA October 31, 2021 Established by SFJAZZ, the San Francisco music-presentation nonprofit which hosts most events at its own San Francisco edifice, the SFJAZZ Collective, a group of established jazz musicians, has been making annual tours including material from one modern jazz great (such ...
Harold López-Nussa at Freight and Salvage
by Roy Strassman
Harold López-Nussa Freight & Salvage Berkeley, CA October 28, 2021 Cuban piano sensation Harold López-Nussa blessed the Bay Area with a Thursday evening performance at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage venue. He fielded quite an unusual and extraordinary band for the evening's exciting and heart-warming gig for a smallish but intimate ...
Other Minds 25, Day 4
by John Chacona
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 17, 2021 Outside the hotel on the morning of the final day of Other Minds 25, curator Harry Bernstein, nearing the conclusion of the twice-postponed festival over which ...
Other Minds Festival 2021
by Roy Strassman
The Other Minds organization is the musical brain child of Charles Amirkhanian, who himself is a musician in addition to composer—and since 1993, also a producer. Other Minds is devoted to bringing both experimental and avant-garde music to a wider audience. What they often present falls most closely into the modern experimental (classical) music and free ...
Olivia Rox Featuring Warren Hill 'It's Christmastime' - Start Your Holiday Season Now!
Olivia Rox teams with special guest legendary jazz recording artist Warren Hill on “It's Christmastime" making it a family Christmas indeed, as they happen to be father and daughter! When it comes to talent, the Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Warren Hill has a prominent and impressive career thus far, including thirteen CD’s, millions ...
Guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko To Release A New Album With Symphony Orchestra
Internationally acclaimed guitar-virtuoso Roman Miroshnichenko's new album Plays Daniel Figueiredo, features the 25-piece St. Petersburg Studio Orchestra and pianist Rannieri Oliveira. The album includes ten tracks, composed by 2-time Latin Grammy Winner Daniel Figueiredo and will be released by MJC, the top music-streaming platform in Brazil. “This recording is very special to me. Daniel's melodies are ...
Other Minds 25, Day 3
by John Chacona
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 16, 2021 Moment's Notice, the theme of the 25th Other Minds festival, was a wry comment on the perils of mounting a music festival in a time of ...
