Tag: Composer

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!!… Read More POCKET JAZZ: GRASSROOTS ARTS PROJECT DEBUTS AUGUST 2019

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STREET LIFE: MAGIC & MUSIC JAZZ CRUSADERS ~ LIMITED DISCOUNTED TICKETS ON SALE NOW !!


CALL 951-840-7120 or email blues2jazz2003@yahoo.com  Regular price is $25 online at http://www.Eventbrite.com Special discounted price Save  up to $7.25 off Online price including fees Contact Robert regarding Direct sales Must pay Cash or money Order for 5 or more tickets @ $20 per ticket Starting Limited period May 29th ENDS June 10th ONLY $20 per ticket… Read More STREET LIFE: MAGIC & MUSIC JAZZ CRUSADERS ~ LIMITED DISCOUNTED TICKETS ON SALE NOW !!

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SANDRA BOOKER~ ” LIL’ SASS ON SASS” AT HERB ALPERT’S VIBRATO GRILL,JAZZ,ETC


                posted by Robert J. Carmack @blues2jazzguy I always try to keep an open mind about today’s music and vocalists, particularly, Jazz vocalists. However, I’m a man of distinct taste and panache’ with a “side of groove and swing”. In the case of Sandra Booker “nobody out-swings” her… Read More SANDRA BOOKER~ ” LIL’ SASS ON SASS” AT HERB ALPERT’S VIBRATO GRILL,JAZZ,ETC

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PATRICE RUSHEN: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY FINGERS!


Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30) is quite the  jazz pianist and R&B singer. She’s also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director. Her 1982 single, “Forget Me Nots“, received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Rushen had great success on the R&B and dance charts. “Haven’t You Heard” went number 7 on… Read More PATRICE RUSHEN: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY FINGERS!

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MUSIC EDUCATOR MOURNED BY MANY


San Francisco Bay area jazz pianist, arranger, composer and educator from East Moline(Iowa) widely known as “The Jazz Professor” died Saturday evening at the age of 80 at his home in Oakland, Calif.    July 1936 – March 2017 “Professor” Bell mentored and inspired many professional musicians as a college music professor and jazz band director. He also recorded several jazz albums and… Read More SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MUSIC EDUCATOR MOURNED BY MANY

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JAZZ DIVA SANDRA BOOKER RETURNS TO L.A. COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART


        Sandra Booker @ LACMA_Singer/songwriter Sandra Booker returns to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for her eighth appearance at part of the Jazz at LACMA series. Back by popular demand, she is a museum favorite and guaranteed to swing the night away with a collection of jazz and R&B standards… Read More JAZZ DIVA SANDRA BOOKER RETURNS TO L.A. COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

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NEW YORK PEOPLE TO WATCH: WHITNEY MARCHELLE


posted by Robert J. Carmack    #blues2jazzguy   WHITNEY MARCHELLE- Singer/piano & guitar/songwriter-BMi, Light Jazz, R&B and Straight- Ahead Venues: Grammy and Olympic Events Nationally. Several International Jazz Festivals, Quincy Jones, New York Blue Note, with Clark Terry at New York Blue Note Club, Art Deco Festival in Miami Florida . Performed at Dusit Dubai Hotel… Read More NEW YORK PEOPLE TO WATCH: WHITNEY MARCHELLE

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