Results for "Rob Lockart"

The BBB Featuring Bernie Dresel: The Pugilist

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2022

No, drummer Bernie Dresel hasn't taken a day gig at the Los Angeles-area Better Business Bureau; the BBB in front of his name stands for Bernie's Big Band or Bernin' Big Band or Bernie's Bernin' Band or something like that. It's really hard to say, as the band's full name isn't spelled out anywhere, even on ...

The Pugilist

By Bernie Dresel

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Pugilist; Running and Jumping; Lulu’s Back in Town; Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough; You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; World Premiere; Positive for the Blues; 100R 2Noon; Rico’s Rowdy Rhumba; I Got Rhythm; La Vie en Rose; All Blues; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?; Zomby Woof.

Daybreak

By Susan Krebs

Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Can'T Get Out Of This Mood; Daybreak; How Little We Know; Inside A Silent Tear; Who Knows Where The Time Goes; Listen Here; Stardust

Susan Krebs: Daybreak

by Richard J Salvucci
October 20, 2021

Sometimes, simpler is better. Familiar chord progressions are like old friends. We think they have aged well, and however different the melody (or their appearance), they are relatable. We connect to and with them. After a spell of “dare to be different" time signatures that can be fun, or challenging, hearing someone who can play or ...

Jump for Joy

By Callie Cardamon

Label: Primavera Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Jump for Joy; Summertime; On the Street Where You Live; Peel Me a Grape; Why Try to Change Me Now

Rob Lockart

Robert Lockart received a BM in music theory with a performers certificate and MM from Eastman School in Jazz Studies, as well as attending the Banff School with Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, and David Liebman. As a performer he has played with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Tom Harrell Big Band, Doc Severinsen Big Band, Joe LaBarbera Quintet, Kurt Elling, in addition to single performances with Dave Liebman, Mel Lewis, Hank Jones, Clark Terry, and as a soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. His teachers include Dave Liebman, Al Regni, Micheal Nascimben, Joe Allard, Ramon Ricker, and Mardele Marcellus. In Los Angeles Rob is active as a recording musician in the jazz community and TV and film

Spring: Light Out of Darkness

By Susan Krebs

Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Oh, What a Beautiful Morning; Whispering Grass; Some Other Time; Spring; You Must Believe in Spring; Light Out of Darkness ; Rite of Spring.

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 4-4

by Simon Pilbrow
September 25, 2018

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Panel 3: Cousins -Moderated by Ken Borgers Moderated by Ken Borgers, this panel featured Woody Herman ...

Susan Krebs Chamber Band Releases "Spring: Light Out Of Darkness" On Greengig Music

March 25, 2018

Spring: Light Out of Darkness is Susan Krebs’ sixth album as a leader and the second CD project for the Susan Krebs Chamber Band. “Spring" is the follow-up to the Chamber Band’s 2015 acclaimed release, Simple Gifts, taking the chamber band concept even further on this new project. Chamber music is defined as “music composed for ...

Bill Cunliffe: BACHanalia

by Jack Bowers
June 24, 2017

As the title denotes, pianist Bill Cunliffe and his ensemble take a swing (literally) at the great Johann Sebastian on BACHanalia, pivoting as well toward the music of C.P.E. Bach, Sergei Prokofiev, Manuel de Falla, Cole Porter, Oscar Levant and Cunliffe himself. In spite of its classical veneer, this is at its core a jazz session, ...