If you’re a fan of the trumpet, you got an ear full of some of the brassiest sounds this side of the angel Gabriel this Friday night at Catalina’s. 9 time Grammy winner Arturo Sandoval fronted his sizzling Big Band…
Category: Concert Reviews
Kathleen Grace w/ Anthony Wilson@The Blue Whale
What exactly constitutes a “jazz singer”? If it’s improvisation and scat singing, then Billie Holiday doesn’t even qualify. Is it in the song selection? Norah Jones writes her own stuff, and Peggy Lee went from Benny Goodman to “Fever” within…
Booker T Jones@The El Rey 06.25.13
The format of the soulful Hammond master Booker T Jones hasn’t changed much in the past 2 score years since his days with the MGs when his band backed the likes of Otis Redding, Sam and Dave and Eddie Floyd…
Pavlo@The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre 06.23.13
There wasn’t a natural blond in the audience for this 4 hour concert featuring some of the best Mediterranean music you’ll ever hear this side of a church picnic. There were so many Armenians and Greeks in the audience for…
Jazz Bakery’s Moveable Feast Presents: Giacomo Gates@Kirk Douglas Theatre 06.22.13
Vocalist Giacomo Gates came to town this weekend to justify my disdain (or at least indifference) to singers like Michael Buble’. As the people-pleasing pop performer delivers a show that is as polished as his nails, in a perfectly generic…
Sacha’s Bloc@Catalina’s 06.20.13
You get the hint that something special is in the air at Catalina’s when a) the show starts RIGHT ON TIME (this is a jazz club?!?) and b) the set begins with a guy having his back facing you (no,…
Lisa Hilton@Catalina’s 05.16.13
This past month has been filled with trios coming through LA. From Brad Mehldau & The Bad Plus to Jason Moran, as well as Bill Cunliffe and Emily Bear, it seems like paradise for fans of intimate jazz. So, do…
Jazz Bakery’s Moveable Feast Presents: Emily Bear@Musician’s Institute 05.08.13
So, as a Sunday School teacher for the 5th and 6th grade class at my church, and having raised two daughters that took in so many hours of piano lessons that I would calculate their recitals at about 50 cents…
Jazz Bakery’s Moveable Feast Presents: Jason Moran’s Bandwagon@Musician’s Institute 05.07.13
When he’s not busy being the heart and soul of Charles Lloyd’s quartet, pianist Jason Moran continues a 10+ year relationship with his own Bandwagon with Tarus Mateen/b and Nasheet Waits/dr which came to the Musician’s Institute and mixed a…
Brad Mehldau Trio & The Bad Plus@The Lobero Theatre 05.03.13
If you’re a fan of the piano trio, you sure got a full evening of it at The Lobero Theatre on a beautiful Friday evening out of the direction of the fire a few towns away. Brad Mehldau’s team with…