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Ella Sophie Quartet at Sam First
by Alex Siegers
Ella Sophie Quartet Sam First Los Angeles, CAMay 21, 2025 The future of jazz singing is bright. Ella Sophie (Ella Dunbar-Wilcox) is a New Zealander jazz vocalist and composer living in Los Angeles took audiences on a journey through the American Songbook, shedding new light on these well-loved tunes. She was ...
Paul Bley: Floater & Syndrome The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited
by Chris May
One way for a musician to conjure rapture is through full-frontal shamanic assault, the sonic equivalent of the Orgasmatron machine that Jane Fonda's character encounters in Roger Vadim's 1968 sci-fi romp Barbarella. Funk is an ideal vehicle. But the sensations produced are superficial and short-lived. A less travelled path instead uses subtlety, understatement and nuance, and ...
The Jazz West Coast Style of Music: An Introduction
by Steven Cerra
I know it's hard to imagine with today's governmental overreach telling people what cars to drive, what bathrooms to use, and the highest personal, property and commercial taxes of any state in the nation, but California in the 1950s was a place of opportunities and possibilities. It's why my dad relocated the family from ...
Sam Sadigursky: Making Things
by Katchie Cartwright
Los Angeles-bred New York-based clarinetist and multi-reedist Sam Sadigursky enjoys a varied and distinguished career, performing and recording with a number of renowned ensembles, including those of composers Darcy James Argue and Philip Glass, pianists Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch, pop stars David Byrne and Tom Jones, among others, in addition to his own projects.
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Jeffrey Gimble
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Raised in Texas blues country, in a house full of music, the son of Houston saxophonist and bandleader, Maynard Gimble, he began to reveal his budding talent at the age of four. But, despite his early connection with jazz – frequently going to gigs with his father — it was the musical theatre that dominated the early part of his long career. His resume as an actor includes performances in stage shows such as Hair, Forbidden Broadway and The Tempest, as well as the cult film, Crimson Force.
“For most of my life jazz was something I really liked, and I listened to it... but it was never something that I really explored until I moved to L.A. a few years ago.”
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Tom Zygmont
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Boundless Expression & Timeless Music
Tom Zygmont’s debut album, Lumina Way, is extraordinary, multifaceted, and brilliantly performed. It makes a lasting impact unlike most contemporary jazz albums in recent memory
Zygmont’s rich musical journey naturally led him to collaborate with a wide range of gifted artists. For Lumina Way, he assembled an exceptional ensemble of LA’s top talent, coming together at the iconic Sunset Sound in Hollywood to capture the album live—resulting in an intimate, organic experience that radiates authenticity.
This venture into new age territory is both remarkable and unexpected, showcasing yet again the complete freedom Zygmont embraces throughout. So unique is this piece that he includes an explanation in his liners, writing, “The Epitaph of Seikilos” is widely considered the oldest surviving complete musical composition. The melody was carved onto a headstone in Greece in the first or second century CE. The English translation of the inscription reads:
Jim Doherty: Jim Doherty's Spondance
by Ian Patterson
Jim Doherty never lacked ambition, but a suite for jazz ballet or even jazz dance was always going to be a difficult sell in '80s Ireland. All was not lost for the pianist and composer, however. A few strings pulled here and there saw Doherty and his long- term collaborator, Louis Stewart decamp to Los Angeles, ...
Petre Bog, Internationally Acclaimed Composer Charts A Rising Star Across Film And Television
Los Angeles-based Romanian composer Petre Bog, a leading figure in contemporary film and television scoring known for seamlessly blending traditional orchestral arrangements with contemporary rock and jazz fusion, is bringing his talents to the United States with several upcoming film projects with Newtopia Studios. A nod to Bog’s rising stature in the global composing community came ...
Gregory Alper: Palisades Apocalypse
by Katchie Cartwright
Rachel Carson served us with this warning in 1962: “We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. ...
Prescribing Jazz: A Top Ten
by Artur Moral
National Doctors' Day is celebrated unevenly across our mistreated planet. It is absent in most countries, while it is observed as a holiday in a few. Coinciding (in the United States and Australia) with this day of recognition for a vital profession, this article is especially directed to the entire jazz-loving medical community, focusing on six ...
