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Redwood City Salsa Festival 2016
by Walter Atkins
Downtown Redwood City Redwood City Salsa Festival Redwood City, CA September 24, 2016 The 9th annual Redwood City Salsa Festival held at the downtown civic center was packed with families, friends, and salsa music lovers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area. High temperatures approaching 100 degrees at the RCSF ...
Pianist/Composer Peter Horvath's 2nd Album As A Leader, "Absolute Reality," Due March 25
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1980s, keyboardist/composer Peter Horvath has thrived in the region’s highly diverse environment, where various music scenes often overlap. He’s played post-bop with Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Eddie Henderson, and Charles McPherson, and funk fusion with the Victor Bailey Group, Marcus Miller, Bennie Maupin, and Lenny White. He’s ...
There Goes That
By Ray Obiedo
Label: Rhythmus Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Southern Side, Fayola, Werewolf, Small Fortune, Four Square, Avila, There Goes That, Ten
Thirty, Somebody, Almost Certain
Linda Tillery at Freight and Salvage
by Walter Atkins
Linda Tillery Freight and Salvage Coffee House Birthday Celebration Berkeley CA September 4, 2015 Seasoned San Francisco Bay Area vocalist Linda Tillery assembled a fine lineup of local musicians, including some decades old friends and a recent new one, to help celebrate her birthday and musical life. Tillery presented a ...
Oakland Art + Soul Festival 2015
by Walter Atkins
Oakland Art + Soul Festival Oakland, CA August 1-2, 2015 Oakland's 15th annual Art+Soul Festival continued its ongoing tradition of featuring the rich variety of music and art of the San Francisco Bay Area. A+SF's multiple venues highlighted Blues, soul, rap, Latin jazz, spoken word and dancers along with crafts ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up!
by Jack Bowers
Even after more than three decades as a big-band leader, and with twenty well-received albums under his belt, Grammy winner Bob Mintzer keeps pushing the envelope, tweaking his recipe and exploring new ways in which to challenge himself and his sidemen while seducing the listener's ear. Known among other things for his fondness for Latin music, ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up!
by Dan Bilawsky
Funk and R&B are the dominant sonic strains on Get Up!--saxophonist-composer Bob Mintzer's twentieth big band release overall and his fifth for the MCG Jazz imprint. In October of 2014, Mintzer took to the stage for two nights at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, armed with some of his grooving big band arrangements and ...
New Bob Mintzer Big Band CD, "Get Up!," Due From MCG Jazz June 23
Since 1983, tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger Bob Mintzer has been delving into the big band format and its myriad stylistic possibilities, collecting five Grammy nominations and one Grammy win in the process. His newest recording, Get Up!, which is his 20th big band album to date, will be released by MCG Jazz on June 23. ...
Ray Obiedo: There Goes That
by Walter Atkins
Noted guitarist Ray Obiedo's There Goes That (Rhythmus Records) is his first album since 1999's Modern World (Domo Records). Over his 4 decades plus career, Obeido has worked with an impressive Who's Who List of musicians including: Herbie Hancock, Bobbi Humphrey, George Duke, The Whispers, Brenda Russell, Pete Escovedo, Grover Washington, Jr., The Rippingtons and Lou ...
Pacific Mambo Orchestra: Pacific Mambo Orchestra
by Edward Blanco
San Francisco's premier Latin big band launches its self-titled Pacific Mambo Orchestra (PMO) debut barely two years after pianist Christian Tumalan and trumpeter Steffen Kuehn founded the 19-piece ensemble. A festival favorite and fixture in the Bay Area, the PMO is a sizzling modern day Latin salsa jazz orchestra built to revisit the big band sounds ...
