Results for "Charlie Morillas"

The Steve Spiegl Big Band: The L.A. Sessions at Capitol Studios

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2020

Almost every Monday morning for the past fifty years, composer-arranger Steve Spiegl convened his Los Angeles-based big band for a rehearsal session, assembling, for most of that time, at the Musicians Union in Hollywood and, more recently, at its new home in Burbank. When Spiegl decided in 2019 to pull up stakes and move northward to ...

Charlie Morillas

Sal Lozano: Everything's Gonna Be Great

by Jack Bowers
June 17, 2016

If you're looking for a superlative one-man saxophone section, better call Sal (Lozano). And if you need some dazzling charts to make that section shine, better phone Tom (Kubis, that is). After spending years as one of Southern California's leading sidemen, Sal Lozano has at last recorded an album under his own name, one on which ...

Intrada

By Dave Slonaker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Intrada; It’s Only a Paper Moon; Nite Lites; Nowhere Is a Sometime Thing; Point of Departure; Timelessness; Labyrinth Suite, Part 1 (Labyrinth); Labyrinth Suite, Part 2 (Flight Time); If and Only If; Remembering.

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

by Jack Bowers
June 14, 2013

Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...

The Matt Catingub Big Band featuring Mavis Rivers “I’m Getting Cement All Over Ewe”

By Matt Catingub

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1991
Track listing: I’m Getting Cement All Over Ewe (Matt Catingub); Even More Blues, but My Abscessed Tooth in Fine (Matt Catingub); Miss Ella (Albert Alva); Dearly Beloved (Kern/Mercer); Change Partners (Irving Berlin); Sciatica Stomp featuring Chris Doc Stewart (Matt Catingub); Funny (Broughton/Merrill); Prelude ‘N Blues (Matt Catingub); I Got Rhythm (George & Ira Gershwin); Simple Pleasures ( Matt Catingub); Donna Lieb (Matt Catingub)