Fans of vintage jazz trio sounds were in for a treat Saturday night at The Grape Ventura, as pianist/composer Lynne Arriale is making a rare West Coast tour with her simpatico team of bassist Alon Near and drummer Alon Benjamini…
Category: Concert Reviews
Brandee Younger Trio@The Sun Rose 03.26.25
You could almost feel the celestial baton being passed on from Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby being passed on to the lovely and gracious Brandee Younger, as she brought the inspiration from players past to create her own sound and…
Ron Carter Foresight Quartet@Catalina’s 03.21.25
The fact that 87 year old Maestro bassist Ron Carter has named his quartet “Foresight” is about all you need to consider when taking in the95 minutes of America’s greatest export. In front of a packed house which included the…
Bob James and Dave Koz@Grammy Museum 03.16.25
“You’re going to hear our instruments with elegance, in purity with warts and all;” Such was David Koz’s apt description of not only his stellar recent debut album with legendary pianist/composer Bob James (Just Us), but his comment from his…
Charles Lloyd Delta Trio @ The Lobero Theatre 03.14.25
There is a reason that although one day short of being 87 years old, jazz artist Charles Lloyd is still able to fill the Lobero Theatre and keep the attendees rapt and attentive with music that never got above a…
Ethan Iverson Trio @ SamFirst Bar 02.28.25
Since leaving his highly popular trio The Bad Plus, pianist Ethan Iverson has carved out a catalogue that may not be filling the larger concert halls that his band once did, but his musical creations are filling the ears with…
Jazz Bakery Presents Edmar Castaneda & Andrea Tierra@The Moss Theatre 02.22.25
“We have come to bring the sound of music as a blessing and healing for all you have gone through lately” With those opening remarks, the husband and wife team of Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda and vocalist Andrea Tierra turned…
Cory Henry and Friends Grammy Jam@The Sun Rose 02.01.25
“We’ve having an evening of healing and celebration through music!” And isn’t that what church is supposed to be for? Since Cory Henry was in town to receive a Grammy for his latest album Church, it made perfect sense that…
Greg Koch/Marshall Trio@Venice West 01.28.25
You know, you don’t have to be smart as long as you know smart people. I had never heard of guitarist Greg Koch until my friend Kevin emailed me that he’d just seen him interviewed by Rick Beato. “We gotta…
Simon Phillips Protocol V@Catalina’s 01.24.25
I’m willing to bet that if you threw a cocktail olive in any direction at the packed house for Simon Phillips’ Friday night show with his Protocol V band, odds are you would have hit a drummer in attendance in…