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Matt Renzi: Rise And Shine
by Dan Bilawsky
Continuity and freshness, while theoretically at odds with one another, are the two things that tend to fuel group development in the arts. Only time can create bonds of trust and help to crystallize concepts and language shared between artists, but consistency can breed predictability. So how can an artist balance the scales, allowing their work ...
Jack Gates: Voyage Of The Troubadour
Original music by Jack Gates (acoustic and electric guitar), Sharyl Gates (voice, lyrics), Phil Thompson (drums) and Dean Muench (bass). Plus one added Carlos Antonio Jobim, tune, So Danco Samba. JACK GATES VOYAGE OF THE TROUBADOUR In days gone by a musician leaves San Francisco Bay on a sailing ship that travels south around Cape Horn ...
See The Music Of Laurie Antonioli and Richie Beirach
A short improvisational piece from master pianist Richie Beirach and song stylist Laurie Antonioli taken from their Duo Session recording is a gorgeous series of brush strokes and images that capture the feeling and sound of this song. Laurie is the Director of the Jazzschool Institute Vocal program and her student, Susana Pineda created this video ...
Cory Wright Outfit: Apples + Oranges
by Glenn Astarita
Oakland, California based reedman Cory Wright (Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia & Yusef Lateef delivers a manifold and juxtaposing ensemble date on Apples + Oranges. It doesn't take too long to determine that the album poses a surfeit of diagonally opposed viewpoints. Other than the highly emphatic and synergistic group-centric output, Wright's compositions hit the mark, and ...
Myra Melford: Life Carries Me This Way
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Myra Melford's first solo disc, Life Carries Me This Way, is a musical exploration the paintings of California visual artist Don Reich. Rendering a painting--an art form that can be taken in at once, with one look--and addressing its moods, colors, shapes and textures over the course of a composition is not a easy task. ...
Quartet San Francisco: Pacific Premieres
by Dan Bilawsky
Gone are the days of the insular string quartet that turns its back on anything and everything outside of the classical canon. In many respects, the world can thank the venerable Kronos Quartet, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2013, for opening eyes, ears and minds to the fact that the string quartet is just like ...
Tenor Saxophonist/Composer Anton Schwartz To Release "Flash Mob" Jan. 28
With Flash Mob, his first new recording in seven years, the expressive and swinging tenor saxophonist/composer Anton Schwartz delivers a disc notable for its well-crafted tunes, riveting ensemble work, and abundance of attitude. Schwartz’s Antonjazz label will release the CD, his fifth since his 1998 debut When Music Calls and first since 2006’s Top 5 radio ...
Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe
by Hrayr Attarian
For their third collaboration on IPO records, veteran musicians pianist Roger Kellaway and multireed player Eddie Daniels recorded a benefit concert for “Santa Fe Center for Therapeutic Riding." The resulting Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe is a tribute to pianist and composer Duke Ellington comprising eight of his standards and an original a ...
Pianist Peter Zak To Perform Solo Concert At Piedmont Piano Company, Oakland, Jan. 4
New York-based jazz pianist Peter Zak returns to his East Bay roots with a solo concert at Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland, on Saturday, January 4. Coming on the heels of the release of his newest CD release, a trio session for SteepleChase Records titled The Eternal Triangle, the show marks his first headlining appearance in ...
Ruth Price: LA's Jazz Jewel Keeping the Jazz Bakery Alive
by Chuck Koton
The LA jazz scene has endured immeasurably painful blows over the years, from the post-World War II death of the once vibrant action on Central Ave (unequivocably among jazz history's most significant locales) to the more recent shuttering of memorable clubs like Shelly's Manne Hole, Donte's and, most recently, Charlie Os. Intrepid jazz entrepreneur Rocco Somazzi ...
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