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Danny Green: Let the Music Happen

by Dan McClenaghan
October 9, 2026

San Diego-based pianist Danny Green began his recording association with Seattle's Origin/OA2 label in 2014 with After the Calm (OA2 Records, 2015), an inspired trio release featuring bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm. It was an auspicious beginning. The group followed up their debut with Altered Narratives (OA2, 2016), featuring a string quartet on three tunes ...

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Bob Dylan at the Rady Shell

by Hobart Taylor
June 27, 2026

Bob DylanRady Shell San Diego, CA June 21, 2026 Like a hoodoo echo emerging from the depths of a bottomless cave, the voice, a rumbling baritone, rambled through the scattered brambles of his poetry. Obscured by low light, and a black hoodie's cowl, Bob Dylan was barricaded behind his keyboard and ...

In Circuses and Carnivals, Sideshows Brought Black Music To The Heartland

by Arthur R George
May 30, 2026

Black musicians in circus and carnival sideshow bands from the late 1800s well into the Twentieth Century brought ragtime and what would become jazz and rhythm and blues to white audiences deep into Midwest agricultural regions. Trumpeter Lester Bowie, later known for the avant-garde Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), ...

Bob Magnusson Joins Former Trio Mates Wofford, Plank In San Diego Hall Of Fame

October 11, 2025

Legendary jazz bassist Bob Magnusson, who cut his teeth in Buddy Rich’s big band before joining Sarah Vaughan’s combo, was inducted into the San Diego Music Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 27, 2025. Magnusson joins 2024 inductee Jim Plank (drums) and 2023 inductee Mike Wofford (piano), the three of whom comprised the classic house band ...

Kahlil Childs

Kahlil Childs is a 16-year-old multi-reedist and composer from San Diego California. He is the leader of the Kahlil Childs Quartet and a member of the Rob Thorsen Quartet which features some of the finest professional musicians in San Diego. He specializes in alto sax and also plays soprano, tenor, and baritone saxophones, as well as bass clarinet and flute. He currently studies with Charles McPherson -- a Detroit legend, and one of the greatest living masters of the alto saxophone. He also studies with Grammy award winning musician & producer Kamau Kenyatta (another Detroit legend). Kahlil is a featured player in the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory under the directorship of renowned trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos. 

The Jazz West Coast Style of Music: An Introduction

by Steven Cerra
May 23, 2025

I know it's hard to imagine with today's governmental overreach telling people what cars to drive, what bathrooms to use, and the highest personal, property and commercial taxes of any state in the nation, but California in the 1950s was a place of opportunities and possibilities. It's why my dad relocated the family from ...

Lori Bell Quartet Pays Homage To Joe Henderson On Spirited Collection, 'recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson'

April 21, 2024

Accomplished arranger, virtuoso musician and esteemed educator, Lori Bell has released her 12th album as a leader, the spirited, Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson, an extraordinary new collection paying homage to one of the all-time greats, hard bop, jazz icon, Joe Henderson. Portuguese for “Remember Me,” the 9-song, Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson showcases Bell at ...

Virtuoso Lori Bell Pays Homage To Music Titan Joe Henderson On 'Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson'

March 12, 2024

Accomplished arranger, virtuoso musician and esteemed educator, Lori Bell returns April 19th with Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson, an extraordinary new collection paying homage to one of the all-time greats, hard bop, jazz icon, Joe Henderson. Portuguese for “Remember Me,” the 9-song, Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson showcases Bell at her enchanting best, one that the ...

Dean Brown: Global Fusion on Acid

by Jim Worsley
February 3, 2024

In memory of Dean Brown. This interview was first published at All About Jazz on April 23, 2021. From the outset, the equation was simple enough. Jazz + rock = fusion. However, whether it was Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, or any of the pioneers of fusion, the music has always been far ...