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To Commemorate Keystone Korner's 45th Anniversary, Producer Todd Barkan Hosts 3 All-star Bay Area Shows July 7-8
The great pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams referred to Keystone Korner as “the Birdland of the Seventies.” Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz all agreed that Keystone Korner was “the best jazz club in the world.” Producer and former Keystone proprietor Todd Barkan feels strongly that “the club most definitely had a transformational effect on the ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Remembering Miles
by R.J. DeLuke
The SFJAZZ Collective has been operating since 2004. In the beginning, it may have seemed to some as just another all-star collection of musicians who strut their stuff for a while, then go about their own business. It has shown over time it is much different. The format--eight outstanding musicians banding together to play ...
Martin Torgoff Discuss Bop Apocalypse
by S.G Provizer
I recently reviewed Martin Torgoff's book Bop Apocalypse; Jazz, Race, The Beats and Drugs. Mr. Torgoff was kind enough to answer a few follow up questions. One of the things that jazz people still try to understand is why so many players became heroin addicts in the 40's and 50's, even after it was ...
Omar Sosa At SFJAZZ
by Walter Atkins
SFJAZZ, Miner AuditoriumOmar Sosa TourSan Francisco CAApril 21, 2017 Acclaimed pianist Omar Sosa quietly took the unlit stage with only a single candle providing limited illumination. He silently started his show with a solemn keyboard solo. Respected SF Bay Area percussionist and educator John Santos then entered from the opposite side ...
The Free Musics by Jack Wright
by Daniel Barbiero
The Free Musics Jack Wright 316 Pages ISBN: 1537777246 Spring Garden Music Editions 2017 Saxophonist Jack Wright's first encounter with free jazz occurred in 1967, when a chance meeting with Charlie Haden resulted in Wright's being invited to see Haden play with Ornette Coleman. Wright, who had been a ...
Omar Sosa Residency at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Omar Sosa Residency SFJAZZ Spring Season San Francisco, CA April 21-23, 2017 “You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cuban-born pianist's overall demeanor exudes a sense of calm and deep reflection, while a spiritual connection to music and his ancestors comes ...
I Scare Myself by Dan Hicks
by Chris Mosey
I Scare Myself Dan Hicks 237 Pages ISBN: 978-1-911036-23-4 Jawbone Books 2017 The late Dan Hicks is described by Kristine McKenna, editor of this rambling but curiously engaging autobiography, as “a musical genius." He wasn't, although he did write some amusing songs and played competent guitar. This and a ...
Singer/Spoken Word Artist Tony Adamo Releases "Rain Man" Video
By Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion Reviews Look—up in th' sky; it’s a BIRD… it's a PLANE… ah, naw, mang, it’s just the “Rain Man”, my pal Tony Adamo, performin’ some of the absolutely COOLEST original music/lyrics he’s done to date! & I know, man… ’cause I’ve reviewed 100’s of his “hip- spoken-word” songs—most recently in ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Wayne Shorter Quartet SFJAZZSpring Season San Francisco, California April 27, 2017 To jazz fans Wayne Shorter needs no introduction. That evening, the first of a three-night stand at SFJAZZ, Director Randall Kline referred to him as “possibly the greatest composer in jazz" which is not an overstatement. For Shorter, ...
Shirlee Temper At The Empress Theatre
by Walter Atkins
Shirlee Temper Empress Theatre Obtainium Works' Fifth Anniversary Party Vallejo CA April 14,2017 San Francisco Bay Area vocalist Shirlee Temper and her lethal band tore it up for Obtainium Works' Fifth Anniversary Party, held at the Empress Theatre Friday in Vallejo CA. The self proclaimed Queen of Rock & Flow ...
