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Tribute to Prentice “Pete” Douglas at Douglas Beach House
by Bill Leikam
Tribute to Prentice “Pete" Douglas Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CA October 4-5, 2014 In some ways, for all of us who time and again came to the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay to listen to some of the finest jazz anywhere, the passing of Prentice “Pete" ...
The Kidd Jordan Quartet Brings Free Jazz to Douglas Beach House, CA
by Bill Leikam
Kidd Jordan Quartet Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, California March 7, 2010 On March 7th, with a stiff northerly wind blowing the flags straight out from the flag pole outside the Douglas Beach House and under a gray coastal sky, legendary jazz sax-man Sir Edward Kidd Jordan led ...
Bill Dixon: In Medias Res
by Clifford Allen
Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. ...
Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree
by Chris May
The year of writing this review, 2019, is the thirtieth anniversary of the recording of The Dark Tree. It is also the twentieth anniversary of the passing of Horace Tapscott, a forgotten master of politically engaged African American spiritual jazz. The album, which is among Tapscott's finest, is crying out for a 2019 anniversary reissue. STOP ...
First Northern California Jazz Musicians Healthcare Benefit Concert
by Bill Leikam
First Northern California Healthcare Benefit ConcertVelma's Jazz and Blues ClubSaf Francisco, CaliforniaApril 23, 2009 On April 23rd, 2009 at Velma's Jazz and Blues Club, in San Francisco, California jazz trumpeter Eddie Gale launched the First Northern California charity concert to support healthcare for jazz musicians through the California Jazz Foundation. The ...
Joint Happening
By Eddie Gale
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Peace; I Don't Need To Fight To Prove I'm Right - I Don't Need To Be Forgiven; I Was Torn Down At The Dance Place - Shaved Head At The Organ; Border Crossing; Selling Oakland By The Pound; Our Love; The Spirit.
Mushroom: Joint Happening
by AAJ Italy Staff
La band californiana guidata dal batterista Pat Thomas festeggia il suo decennale con un album eccellente che la vede ospitare il mitico trombettista Eddie Gale che negli anni sessanta e settanta militò nei gruppi di Sun Ra e Cecil Taylor, registrando anche con l’organista Larry Young. Un paio di album a suo nome di quel periodo ...
Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening
by Chris M. Slawecki
I'll resist any pun that might connect the words “mushroom and “joint but more than a little psychedelia wafts like incense and patchouli through this collaboration between progressive rock and jazz veterans. Mushroom is a more-or-less underground ensemble led by drummer Pat Thomas that has explored modern instrumental rock and jazz from its San ...
Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening
by Robert Iannapollo
Mushroom was formed in the late 1990s by drummer Pat Thomas as a loose performing collective and has developed a small but quite rabid following. Lumped in with the jamband genre, they've never garnered quite the same amount of attention as other exemplars. Perhaps part of the reason is that they are not exclusively a jamband ...
