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Mike Gurrola
Born in Redwood City, CA in 1991, bassist Mike Gurrola began his musical journey studying and playing violin in his elementary school orchestra in La Crescenta, California. In his early teenage years an interest in rock and blues guitar led him to learn guitar on his own at home; meanwhile he had switched from violin to bass in his middle school orchestra. Mike's interest in jazz developed because of his desire to attend the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) where the school day was split equally between academics and the pursuit of the student's art. He auditioned successfully on upright bass and began a fruitful period of rapid development in jazz knowledge and skill, while winning group and individual awards at competitions at the Berklee College of Music and Monterey Jazz Festival annual school competitions, including a scholarship to Berklee's presitigious five-week jazz workshop led by critically acclaimed drummer Terri-Lynne Carrington and a seat two times as bassist in the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, playing at the North Sea and Monterey Jazz Festivals and at the Kennedy Center
First Impressions
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ahead of the Curve; Navigating the Maze; Parting Ways; Recorda Me; Wanna Bounce?; Play It
Cool; I Can See the Glimmer; Noodles and Potatoes; You’re Not Alone; First Impressions.
Marcello Carelli: First Impressions
by Jack Bowers
There is no sophomore slump on First Impressions, which is the second recording by the splendid young drummer Marcello Carelli's quartet/trio. It is one on which he not only anchors the rhythm section but also wrote nine of the studio date's ten bright and engaging tunes. If a musician can be appraised by ...
Veronica Thomas They Say It's Wonderful
Label: Nica Carrington Productions
Released: 2024
Track listing: Almost in Your Arms, Get Out of Town, Invitation, They Say It’s Wonderful, If I Were a Bell, Dindi, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, Speak Low, Stuck in a Dream, A Sleepin’ Bee, Too Late Now, Two for the Road.
Flying High - Big Band Canaries Who Soared
Label: Jazz at the Ballroom
Released: 2024
Track listing: On the Sunny Side of the Street; Secret Love; I Don't Know Enough About You; I Only Have Eyes For You; All of Me; Lellaby of the Leaves; Sweet Georgia Brown; Why Don't You Do Right; What a Difference a Day Makes; The One I Love; Social Call; Yopu Belong to Me; The Man I Love; Tea for Two; Exactly Like You.
Sextet Session
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Desert Blues; Whispering; Gee’s Flat; You’ve Changed; AT #33; Try Ads; Si Miner; Bubbles in
the Wine.
Veronica Thomas: Veronica Thomas They Say It's Wonderful
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Broadway musicals and cinema soundtrack songs have been full-bloom gardens for material harvested by singers and instrumentalists. From the romantic to the dramatic to the humorous and novelty, artists have had the buona fortuna of such a vast treasury. Partnering with the insight of producer John Proulx, (himself a marvelous singer/pianist/composer) and a cadre of LA ...
Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Doug MacDonald records albums like someone who is either making up for lost time or does not have much time to spare. According to his discography, Sextet Session is at least the thirty-second album MacDonald has led or co-led, almost half of which have been released in the past couple of years or so. To ...
The Terry Gibbs Songbook
By Gerry Gibbs
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2023
Track listing: Let's Go to Rio; Those Eyes, Those Lips, That Nose, That Face, That Girl; I was Loved; Now's The Time To Groove;
The House That Might Have Been; Nina; I can Hardly Wait For Saturday Night; If I Were You; Play and Sing; Lonely
Days; And That's Why They Call It The Blues; Say Goodbye; Stay With Me Tonight; If I Knew Then; Sweet Young
Song of Love.
Eric Reed Quartet, Pan African People's Arkestra and Pharoah Sanders / Joey DeFrancesco Tribute Band
by Chuck Koton
Eric Reed Quartet Sam FirstLos Angeles, CA June 9, 2023 This spring's weather was unseasonably cool, but the jazz scene has been hot in California! In June, master pianist Eric Reed brought his quartet, including tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, bassist Mike Gurrola and drummer Reggie Quinerly to Sam First, a cozy ...
