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…
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JAZZ PIANIST LENORE RAPHAEL: ISN’T SHE GRAND !
posted by Robert J. Carmack @blues2jazzguy There are many piano players in the world, boiling down that premise to just Jazz piano players is not a solution either. One could just look inside a union directory, or go on a jazz site and start counting under the letter P. However, when you call out “women jazz piano…
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…
GOOD-BYE FOR NOW TOOTS THIELEMANS: FINAL NOTE 1922-2016
posted by Robert J. Carmack Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, better known as Toots Thielemans,was a master jazz musician. He was well-known for his harmonica playing, but was a sublime guitarist and whistle soloist, often a first-call sessions player. Many times over the decades of his career, he could be heard on Jazz/POP recordings, or…
POETRY JAZZ ENSEMBLE PLIGHT DEBUTS AT BILLY HIGGINS WORLD STAGE
Posted by Kamaad Tauhid #blues2jazzguy Recently in Los Angeles California, Night of the Grassroots Hip-Nosis featuring PLIGHT Jazz Ensemble took the Billy Higgins World Stage’s audience on a “Time machine” ride back to the Jazz scene 1960s style.” according to one audience member. Plight ,a jazz/poetry band led by jazz journalist and producer Robert J….
DEE DEE McNEIL PRESENTS SUNDAY BEST JAZZ SERIES IN LOS ANGELES
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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…
SOUL SAUCE ~ CAL TJADER LATIN JAZZ LEGACY BAND
posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy It’s not everyday you can jump in your car and drive to a spot, then wind up in the middle of the 1960s jazz scene Los Angeles. Back then you could still catch great latin jazz bands coming through like…
NINA SIMONE LEGACY~MISUNDERSTOOD??
“posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy With the upcoming production of NINA, a so-called biopic surrounding the life and loves of Nina Simone. There is tremendous opposition to the film from all sides and motives. It certainly has been no secret how I felt about the casting of Zoe Saldana in the starring role.I…
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