DESTINY ON POINT!


Destiny Muhammad Harpist from Da’ Hood recently performed at the World Stage(LeimertPark) Los Angeles. Master jazz harpist,Destiny Muhammad, featuring saxophonist, Dr. Teodross Avery, drummer Leon Joyce Jr. and bassist Chico Lopez were bringing the house down on a recent Friday night show at the renown music gallery, the WORLD STAGE. Originally from Los Angeles/Compton area…

DESTINY ON POINT!


Destiny Muhammad Harpist from Da’ Hood recently performed at the World Stage(LeimertPark) Los Angeles. Master jazz harpist,Destiny Muhammad, featuring saxophonist, Dr. Teodross Avery, drummer Leon Joyce Jr. and bassist Chico Lopez were bringing the house down on a recent Friday night show at the renown music gallery, the WORLD STAGE. Originally from Los Angeles/Compton area…

CTI RECORDS FOUNDER SUCCUMBS


CREED TAYLOR: CTI RECORDS the Next Wave By Robert J. Carmack Recently we lost a monumental figure of an era in music, Jazz in particular, Creed Taylor. Taylor pronounced dead in his home in Nuremburg, Germany. It appeared that he was unable to recover from a severe stroke just prior to his death. Beginning in…

BOBBY WEST: A PRODIGAL SON RETURNS


By Robert J. Carmack It comes as no surprise that, whenever a well respected musician comes to LA and, they are a part of the World Stage Eco-System and family at that. The ”hipsters, cool gents and lovely ladies show up and out at the Leimert Park performance space known as the WORLD STAGE. Recently…

Award-Winning Playwright Set to Direct Hit Musical Revue Club Alabam


Award-winning Playwright and Poet, Tu’Nook has been tapped to direct the Theatre Perception Consortium’s production, The Club Alabam. It was announced recently by Robert J. Carmack, company Marketing and Media Consultant. Tu’Nook is an educator,performance poet,playwright and actress. She has been published in Guild Press Anthology,  “Full Circle Eight”, UCLA’s Black English Student Association Journal “TAZ”…

HORACE SILVER:LET’S GET TO THE REAL NITTY GRITTY 1928-2014


posted by Robert J. Carmack                           #@blues2jazzguy On June 18, we lost one of the few remaining Jazz giants, pianist Horace Silver.  As a serious fan of this man’s music, I have to take you all the way back to my early teen…