A ROBERT J. CARMACK PRODUCTIONS Presents Strato-Sphere:Thelonious Monk Turns 100 A moving and eclectic project involving Jazz legend Thelonious Monk’s most prized compositions performed by Los Angeles’s most talked about Jazz musicians,vocalists, poets and dancers. Follow this blog for all information forthcoming. If you’re interested in participation as co-sponsor, artist or media …
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RIFFIN’ IN HOLLYWOOD WITH MARCUS MILLER at CATALINA’S
Posted by Robert J. Carmack-All Photos by Chuck Koton Jazz Shutter Bug, Chuck Koton was just able to eek out the last set at Catalina’s Jazz Bar & Grill in Hollywood recently. Miller was in town for a short stint to…
COLTRANE @ NINE-ZERO: CELEBRATING JOHN COLTRANE 1926 -1967
posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy Subtitle; A Hipster’s perspective on Trane at 90. Its been a long 49 years ago that John William Coltrane was announced transitioned. This writer remembers that summer day as if it was only yesterday. I was just starting to settle into…
KEVIN GOINS ~MUSIC MAN OF THE AGES: RUDY VAN GELDER MEMORIAM
by Kevin Goins – Music/Media Consultant/Contributor RUDY VAN GELDER – IN MEMORIAM….. Damn, Grim Reaper…bad enough we’ve seen many folks go to the Great Beyond before we hit mid-year, no thanks to you. And this week, you just had to go for the flippin’ trifecta. Toots, Steven Hill, and now this…
DALE FIELDER QUARTET RESILIENCE! HINDSIGHT 20 YEARS
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Los Angeles_ Dale Fielder, the LA based musician,composer,bandleader is just one of those rare entities that chooses to grow and get better with time. After more than 20 years as the leader of Dale Fielder Quartet, He keeps re-inventing himself with his great original compositions or…
CELEBRATING BLACK MUSIC MONTH WITH LEGEND BIG BLACK ~ PERCUSSIONIST
posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy Danny “Big Black” Rey got its nickname “Big Black” from an older brother because of his interest in drums. During his high school years on the radio, the Conga in the Cuban music had heard he was interested in the instrument and traveled to Florida and the…
THE CREATORS MASTERPLAN SHINED AT CATALINA’S JAZZ BAR
Saturday night June 11, The amped up audiences from the two sets were fully engaged and electrified by Pharoah Sanders with the Harold Mabern Trio. A rare Southern California appearance by Harold Mabern, the bluesy,swinging…
JAZZ SAXOPHONIST MEL MARTIN EXPLORES MUSIC OF JOE HENDERSON
posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy San Francisco bay area saxophonist, Mel Martin will be a part of the S.F. Hot Plate jazz series at the SF Jazz Center. Every third Thursday of the month in the Joe Henderson Lab, the Bay Area’s most gifted musicians pay homage to the top100 jazz albums of…
THE WOLFMAN OF JAZZ ~ VIBIST WARREN WOLF
posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy The phenomenal multi-instrumentalist Warren Wolf is one of the most important and exciting young jazz artists performing today. The jazz bassist Christian McBride once said that “Wolf’s talent is so far off the radar screen. Everything you want in a musician:he has that times 20.” Christian met Wolf in…
THOMAS SIMMONS JAZZ HOST AND MASTER RECORDS COLLECTOR
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Atlanta resident, Thomas Simmons invites you and yours for a seat right down front at your favorite listening space. Holding it down each and every Friday night 10pm to midnightt eastern standard time at WRFG FM 89.3 ,Jazz to Soothe Your Soul. Thomas explores…
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