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Keyboardist Steve McQuarry Presents A Tribute To Carla Bley At SFJAZZ Center, June 5
Oakland-based keyboardist-composer Steve McQuarry and his musician friends had long been enamored of the cutting-edge music of Oakland-born keyboardist-composer Carla Bley. In a conversation a year and a half ago with Bley’s daughter, keyboardist Karen Mantler, he mentioned that he would love to perform some of her mother’s compositions. Mantler talked it over with Bley, and ...
24 Jazz Heroes in 22 cities Announced by Jazz Journalists Association
Educators, Presenters, Philanthropists, Fans, Players, Poet and Dentist Hailed as Activists, Advocates, Altruists, Aiders and Abettors of Jazz Honored New York, NY: Two dozen “JazzHeroes"—activists of positive influence on their musical communities—have been announced today by the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit organization of media professionals, in collaborations with grassroots organizations andsupporters in 22 U.S. cities, ...
Jess Rowland: Spambots
by Glenn Astarita
San Francisco-based sound artist, synthesist and commissioned composer Jess Rowland assembles a freaky android-like aural fest via text-to-speech loops, cyclical narrations and perhaps modern era Beat poetry atop supercharged electronics and dissimilar tonalities. Running at LP length, Rowland and drummer Pete Stalsky don't overcook matters. Her overlapping narrations, sometimes built on short phrases and a mélange ...
The United Sates Of Events: America's Top Concert Going Cities By Genre
Ticketing and event platform Eventbrite has released a list of America’s top event-going cities and the United States of Events, a visualization of the event-going trends in America's largest 25 cities. The company leveraged its platform of millions of events to zoom in on attendance themes. Overall Music Ticket Sales 1. Austin2. San Francisco3. ...
Bria Skonberg: Rising Star On Hot Jazz Scene
"If Louis Armstrong and Doris Day could somehow be the same person, they'd be Bria Skonberg." —Wall Street Journal Jazz lovers in Oakland and Mill Valley, Calif. Are in for a real treat in late March as Bria Skonberg brings her unique talents to the San Francisco Bay area. She calls her music Hot Jazz and ...
Orrin Keepnews: Classic Producer of Classics
by R.J. DeLuke
This interview was originally published in August 2007. As a city boy who took a liking to jazz music and extended it into a budding career as a journalist, Orrin Keepnews may have inadvertently veered into the record-producing arena that generated classic albums from a wide range of unforgettable artists. Maybe it was a ...
Orrin Keepnews (1923-2015)
Orrin Keepnews, a jazz record producer whose taste in music, integrity and respect for artists resulted in a vast body of legacy recordings by Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans as well as dozens of other artists, died on March 1. He was 91. His Riverside label operated from 1953 to 1964. What ...
Grateful Dead Drummer Bill Kreutzmann to Release Groundbreaking Memoir
DEAL: MY THREE DECADES OF DRUMMING, DREAMS AND DRUGS WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD SET TO COME OUT MAY 5 BILLY & THE KIDS TO PERFORM “EUROPE SEVENTY 2.0" FEATURING ROBERT RANDOLPH AT THE CAPITOL IN PORT CHESTER, NY, MARCH 28 TICKETS GO ON SALE THIS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20 ONE NIGHT ONLY “SPRING '90 REVISITED SHOW" FEATURING ...
Twin Cities
by Andrea Canter
Welcome to the first in a series of Jazz Near You articles where we raise the awareness of advocacy and catalyst organizations whose efforts are making a positive impact on their local jazz communities. This article was co-written by Don Berryman The Jazz Police website launched in spring 2004, initially intending to ...
Grammy Award Winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra Releases New Single And Video Pacific Mambo Dance Worldwide On March 3rd, 2015
San Francisco, CA - This is Pacific Mambo Orchestra’s first international video and single release since the San Francisco Bay Area sensation nabbed the 2013 Grammy Award® for Best Tropical Latin Album. Pacific Mambo Dance is an infectious, get-off-your- feet group dance anthem that’s destined to become a new club classic and will be available digitally ...
