Like a vintage wine, some things age to perfection, and the pair of 3 score anniversaries from 2 famous concerts celebrated timeless aspects of jazz. The famous Massey Hall concert that cemented the fiundarion of bebop was revisited by having…
Category: Concert Reviews
Anthony Wilson’s Guitar Quartet@The Edye 03.07.14
Guitar fans were in fret heaven at The Edye Friday night as Anthony Wilson brought together some of the best pickers around for a quartet’s worth of picking, strumming, tapping and plucking. Wilson’s 2013 Season’s album which debuted the 4…
Fatoumata Diawara@The Broad Stage 02.28.14
If you wanted to get a good overview of where American music’s heart and soul originated, the place to be on the rainy last day of February was at the Broad Stage, where Malian singer/songwriter Fatoumata Diawara and her band…
Pat Metheny Unity Group@CSUN 02.25.14
Pat Metheny is probably the only artist around that would have one band that he leads open up for the SECOND band that he also is in charge of, but that’s what he did at CSUN’s Performing Arts Center Tuesday…
Guitar Passions w/ Sharon Isbin, Stanley Jordan & Romero Lubambo@CSUN 02.23.14
Fans of the guitar and a fretful feast at the Valley Performing Arts Center at CSUN. Three diverse artists ranging from the classical Sharon Isbin to the string tapping jazzer Stanley Jordan with Brazilian Romero Lubambo rounding out the sounds…
Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride & Dianne Reeves@Disney Hall 02.09.14
“This is no longer Disney Hall,” joked vocalist Dianne Reeves as she began the 10th year anniversary show for the acoustically adroit theatre. “This is our living room,” she declared, as she turned the hall into an intimate setting in…
Bela Fleck and Brooklyn Rider@Valley Performing Arts Center 02.08.14
“What is a banjo doing with a string quartet, and vice versa?” was a question poignantly asked by violinist Jonathan Gandelsman and answered during the 2 hour concert at CSUNs Performing Arts Center with banjo extraordinaire Bela Fleck and the…
Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor@Smothers Theatre 01.22.14
If you are a guitarist, this past month of performances will either inspire you to increase your hours of practice or to smash your guitar into a million pieces in frustration after being either encouraged or overwhelmed by what you’ve…
Robben Ford@Catalina’s 01-18-14
January has been guitar lover’s heaven in LA, as by the third week Angelenos have had the chance to see and hear the likes of Lee Ritenour, Andy McKee, Johnny Rivers, Howard Alden and Tommy Emmanuel. Keeping up with fret…
Johnny Rivers & Jimmy Webb@Saban Theatre 01.15.14
“There is a man who lives a life of danger…” 50 years ago, a young blues rocker by the name of Johnny Rivers performed with his band at the fledgling club called the Whisky A Go Go on the Sunset…