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Miguel Zenon at SFJAZZ Center
by Roy Strassman
Miguel Zenon SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA May 5, 2022 With its fabulous acoustics and visual projection capabilities, the SF Jazz Center is the ideal venue for Miguel Zenon's performances of his recent Golden City Suite project. Zenon conducted interviews in several of San Francisco's ethnic communities—Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, African American, ...
Helen Sung Quartet with guest Jenny Scheinman at SFJAZZ
by Roy Strassman
Helen Sung Quartet with guest artist Jenny Scheinman Joe Henderson Lab at SFJazz San Francisco, CA March 18, 2022 Last night the Helen Sung Quartet plus violinist Jenny Scheinman graced the stage of the Joe Henderson Lab at San Francisco's premier jazz venue, SFJazz. Ms. Sung, a Guggenheim ...
Rubén Blades at the Oakland Paramount Theater
by Roy Strassman
Rubén Blades Paramount Theater Oakland, CA November 20, 2021 The November night was brisk, and the expectant crowd gradually swelled. Sausage vendors were selling onion-and pepper-laden sandwiches right alongside the scalpers. The queues were long—for checking vaccine cards and gaining entry or even just to partake of a juicy pre-show ...
Harold López-Nussa at Freight and Salvage
by Roy Strassman
Harold López-Nussa Freight & Salvage Berkeley, CA October 28, 2021 Cuban piano sensation Harold López-Nussa blessed the Bay Area with a Thursday evening performance at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage venue. He fielded quite an unusual and extraordinary band for the evening's exciting and heart-warming gig for a smallish but intimate ...
Other Minds Festival 2021
by Roy Strassman
The Other Minds organization is the musical brain child of Charles Amirkhanian, who himself is a musician in addition to composer—and since 1993, also a producer. Other Minds is devoted to bringing both experimental and avant-garde music to a wider audience. What they often present falls most closely into the modern experimental (classical) music and free ...
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah at Yoshi's
by Roy Strassman
Christian Scott aTunde AdjuahYoshi's Oakland, CA October 7, 2021 The Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah flying saucer landed on Thursday night at Yoshi's in Oakland, and what an eclectic crew emerged! Though they were anything but alien, every musician was a monster--trumpet, flute, piano, bass, and three different drummers forming the percussion ...
Carla Bley's Lost Chords at Yoshi's
by Roy Strassman
Carla Bley Yoshi's Oakland, CA September 14, 2005 Last night I slid into Yoshi's a few minutes late and the band was called “out . With seemingly a stellar cast of musicians I was dismayed when the music began with what sounded like a hoaky, low-key bossa nova. ...
Contemporary Jazz, Slightly Offstream
by Roy Strassman
Michael Wolff & Impure Thoughts Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 7, 2000Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts blew into town accompanying the incoming weather front with a hard-driving rainstorm of its own—one of trance-like percussion and bass grooves and heavy winds blowin' in over the reeds and piano strings. The light “voter ...
New Orleans Jazz Piano and Chicago Blues
by Roy Strassman
Henry Butler and Alvin “Youngblood" Hart Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 28, 2000Last night Henry Butler and Alvin Youngblood Hart landed and took off again for a regrettably short three-day stint at Dimitrious' Jazz Alley through Thursday. The relatively light Tuesday night turnout was in total contradiction to the level of ...
Pat Martino Trio at Jazz Alley
by Roy Strassman
Pat Martino Trio Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000Amidst good tidings, packed house and festive d'cor, replete with onstage Christmas tree, the Three Jazzmen journeyed to the West, Seattle's Jazz Alley, thereby annunciating the holy rebirth of jazz guitar-organ funk. The jazzmen in question are none other ...
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