IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Angeles _ October 19, 2022 . .recently announced during the Jazz, Blues and Beyond Summit held in Los Angeles. The new entertaining “Performers Alley” is a live streaming series. The hip and eclectic show is presented twice a month via the internet. Tickets can be purchased through VIEW STUB, the exclusive digital ticketing service….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONK: THELONIUS 1917-1982

+ ART by SAM PACE

CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH: 2022

Bopping Around the Inland Empire with Robert J. Carmack This writer just wanted to explore new venues for music and the arts in general. this past Juneteenth 2022,I visited several locations to observe and report on what I saw and heard. On Saturday, June 18, I began my day in Pomona California. Starting with the…

LOCAL ARTISTS COLLABORATE ON POST PANDEMIC PROJECTS

Los Angeles,Calif. It was announced today by Pocket Jazz Presents creator and chief content developer,Robert J. Carmack, MFA. Story by Kamaad Tauhid Robert J. Carmack, writer, producer and musician, is currently arranging a new collective made up of elite unsung artists and craftspeople the pandemic forgot about.. actors,musicians, poets,painters,sculptors, music arrangers,set designers,sound and lighting. Pocket…

SISTAS’ DOIN’ IT : FIREY STRING SISTAS!

Coming April 20th 2019 a creative, diverse Jazz chamber-like Improvisational music in an all-female band . I will be chatting with the founder and leader of this band of stellar musicians, Ms. Nioka Workman and the Firey String Sistas, they also include the offspring of legendary jazz musicians.. follow us on http://www.hipstersanctuary.com

POCKET JAZZ: GRASSROOTS ARTS PROJECT DEBUTS AUGUST 2019

Pocket Jazz is a coined phrase created by Carmack that melds theater,improvisational music and poetry into a big ball of creativity for open minded audiences. If you dig Kamasi Washington or Horace Tapscott or Amiri Baraka, Last poets, Watts Prophets and Sun Ra.. brought to you in an affordable, safe and warm community environments. In the tradition of the Black Arts Movement early beginning of Los Angeles Community Jazz organizations paired with the painters, sculptors and actors creating on demand Art.. Subscribe and follow us on http://www.hipstersanctuary.com FREE!! FREE!! FREE!!

JAZZ FOR R&B LOVERS: MUSIC FOR AFTER THE AFTER PARTY

posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy #Precious:For Lovers & Dancers I can hardly remember but, over the last 5 -10 years we’re missing a lot of male jazz vocalists input. Rudi Mwongozi is constantly moving up the chain of new faces and voices on the scene.. Rudi, now based in New York from Oakland, California….

MAIA !! TAKES THE WORLD STAGE BY STORM COMING SOON INTERVIEW WITH MAIA.

posted by Kamaad Tauhid #@blues2jazzguy https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPSU2-wVRzY9l48Hml_efp_oC8MWMm5I-C8LTHJ I’ve been around music since I was a pup. I been around jazz since 1963, musician, actor, producer and poetry. MAIA.. is a woman, and a group of very talented ladies that hit all the marks for me. I have not seen anybody that bring the soul,…