Usually the mix of jazz and poetry conjures up images of beatniks reciting obscure lines with a background of freely improvised horns. As she demonstrated at Royce Hall Saturday night, vocalist Luciana Souza has completely transformed that concept, combining the…
Category: Concert Reviews
The Jazz Bakery Presents Charles Lloyd & Gerald Clayton@The Moss Theater 11.24.18
Legendary Charles Lloyd and rising star Gerald Clayton proved that less can be a lot more, as the duo delivered a gorgeous 80 minute evening of post bop jazz sonatas that was the apotheosis of intimacy and musical conversation. The…
John Mayall@The Canyon Club 11.15.18
Most days, if you go hear an 85 year old musician play, it would probably be at the senior center or some nursing home, but last night at The Canyon Club the audience was treated to the legendary sounds of…
Elliot Deutch’s Big Band Cd Release Party@Vitello’s 11.06.18
It was fitting that local big band leader Elliot Deutsch chose to have his CD Release Party on Election Night, as the album title Make Big Band’s Great Again is a play on President Trump’s ubiquitous motto. Charming and enthused…
Pat Metheny@Royce Hall 10.26.18
If you’re a fan of jazz guitar, you’ve had quite a feast the past week plus, as the three major post-bop guitars have all come to town to display their own personal reasons for being such an influence to subsequent…
Kait Dunton’s TrioKait@Bogie’s 10.23.18
One of the cardinal rules of a musician or group is to have a personal sound. Keyboardist Kait Dunton, with her long time working team of bassist Cooper Appell and husband/drummer Jake Reed have been able to achieve that goal,…
John Scofield’s Combo 66@TRK 10.18.18
Celebrating his 66th year on earth, (hence the band’s monicker), guitarist John Scofield showed the audience at the Theatre Raymond Kabbaz that he is at the stage of his career that he can bring in all of the influences from…
Jazz Bakery Presents The Benny Golson Quartet@The Moss Theatre 10.13.18
Weaving together stories both musical and verbal, jazz legend Benny Golson gave a 90 minute serving of hard bop comfort food before an appreciative house of guests at the Moss Theatre that included one time fellow band member Quincy Jones.…
Bunny Brunel@Bogie’s Bar 10.09.18
Legendary electric bassist Bunny Brunel put the “fuse” back into fusion with an electrifying 110 minute set at the acoustically adroit Bogie’s Bar. Mixing material from his days with Chick Corea as well as his own CAB band, Brunel and…
The Jazz Bakery “Moveable Feast” Presents: Sergio Mielniczenko Celebrating 60 Years of Bossa Nova
Famed radio host and promoter Sergio Mielniczenko led a double anniversary of Brazilian music at the festive Moss Theatre Saturday night. Not only is 2018 the 40 year anniversary of his immensely popular Brazilian Hour program (heard locally at KXLU…