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Euge Groove At Yoshi's
by Walter Atkins
Euge Groove Yoshi's Oakland, CA February 5, 2016 Eclectic saxophonist Euge Groove (Tower of Power, Tina Turner, Bonnie Raitt) and his fantastic group performed to a capacity house during Friday's second show at Yoshi's Oakland. EG's outstanding band included: Randy Jacobs guitar, Cornelius Mims bass, Chris Miskel drums, and Colin Clausen ...
Stan Getz: Spring 1976
by C. Michael Bailey
The musical specter of John Coltrane is so massive and dense that its creative gravity often does not allow even a whiff of his contemporary saxophone players. While certainly acknowledged as an innovator in his own right, saxophonist Stan Getz rarely gets the attention he deserves as often as many of his contemporaries. That is what ...
Marina Crouse At The Sound Room
by Walter Atkins
Marina Crouse The Sound Room First Time Out Oakland, CA January 30, 2016 Talented East Bay vocalist Marina Crouse and her superb band lit up the intimate Sound Room with her distinctive brand of rhythm and blues on this chilly Saturday evening. The night was filled with a soulful blend ...
Premiere Of "Killer Heels"
Executive producers, W. Mark Dendy and Jimena Bautista, invite you to the World Premiere of Killer Heels, a film deemed sexy, jazzy, and provocative, February 24, 2016, at Beatnik Studios in Sacramento, California, as part of Fashion On Film, the Capital region's premiere showcase for fashion media. The event occurs during SACRAMENTO FASHION WEEK and is ...
Hristo Vitchev Quartet: In Search of Wonders
by Mark Sullivan
Bulgarian-born San Franciscan jazz guitarist/composer Hristo Vitchev leads an experienced quartet on this double-CD collection of attractive modern jazz. This is his seventh release as a leader, and the third with this quartet (allowing for a change in the drum chair), following Familiar Fields (First Orbit Sounds Music, 2013) and Song For Messsambria (First Orbit Sounds ...
Hristo Vitchev Quartet: In Search of Wonders
by Roger Farbey
With six previous albums already to his name, guitarist Hristo Vitchev has now released a double album of his own compositions, benefitting from the inclusion of three exceptionally talented musicians constituting his quartet. Vitchev's dextrously lithe playing is evident from the start on the (initially) pastoral opener “The Transitory Nature," recalling the styles and fluidity of ...
Wayne Bergeron: Full Circle
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Track and field aficionados will remember Olympic gold-medal-winning high-jumper, Dick Fosbury. Fosbury revolutionized his event by developing an unorthodox “backward flop" to hurdle the bar. No flop, for sure, but Full Circle from trumpeter Wayne Bergeron and his stellar Los Angeles teammates raise every aspect of the trumpeting and big band bar to atmospheric heights.
Charles Lloyd and The Marvels: I Long to See You
by Stefano Merighi
Non vi è dubbio che al giro di boa dei 70 anni Charles Lloyd abbia conosciuto una “nuova giovinezza" artistica e che queste recenti stagioni siano state per lui ricche di soddisfazioni. I dischi ECM ed il recente Blue Note Wild Man Dance lo hanno rilanciato come tra i più creativi tra i senatori del jazz. ...
Septeto Nacional at the Brava Theater
by Harry S. Pariser
Septeto Nacional Brava Theater San Francisco, CA January 17, 2016 In 1927, Ignacio Pineiro formed a group to play Cuba's traditional son music, a genre germinated in the black communities of rural Cuba. Pineiro added a cornet player to add zest and appeal, and the band, the Septeto Nacional, really took ...
Gary Lucas & Jann Klose Release "Stereopticon" Online
Guitarist Gary Lucas and singer Jann Klose’s new album, Stereopticon is now out on Cosmic Trigger Records/The Orchard. This is a songwriter’s album, probably most at home with fans of AAA, indie, acoustic folk-pop/“urban Americana” music. Also active songwriters, Gary and Jann collaborated on songs over the past three years. Their friend Dan Beck, who has ...
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