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Louis Hayes Quartet Closes Out 2011 KSDS Jazz Live

Jazz drummer Louis Hayes performed at the Saville Theatre for the final installment of this spring’s "KSDS Jazz Live" series. Hayes has played with several jazz greats, from John Coltrane to Woody Shaw; he once ...

Korb and Cosmologic — Relaxed and Swinging at UCSD

UCSD's music department has been presenting concerts all week featuring returning alumni and staff, including singer and bassist Kristen Korb, who opened Saturday's show, and the creative free-jazz co-op Cosmologic, which closed it. The event ...

Geoffrey Keezer and Peter Sprague Unite

Local pianist Geoffrey Keezer and guitarist Peter Sprague teamed up to form a new jazz band that sold out the Saville Theater. The concert served as a CD-release party for their debut, Mill Creek Road. ...

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Kenny Barron's masterful solo recital

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/25/24995/ Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute concluded their spring concert series with another sold-out performance--this one by the understated, yet masterful pianist Kenny Barron. The evening was made doubly satisfying by the sonic purity ...

Peter Sprague / Leonard Patton @ 98 Bottles, May 25

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/24/24965/ Two of San Diego's finest musicians team up on Friday night, May 25, for a concert at 98 Bottles. Local guitar king Peter Sprague joins the soulful vocalist Leonard Patton for an intimate series ...

Castellanos brings Legends of Jazz to Tango Del Rey, May 27

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/22/24822/ This Sunday, May 27, local trumpet master Gilbert Castellanos will be assembling a special cadre of the area's most illustrious musicians--all of them bandleaders in their own right, for a concert at Tango Del ...

Mundell Lowe Organ Quartet at Jazz Live

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/21/24745/ Jazz guitar icon Mundell Lowe turned 90 last month, and has been celebrating with a slew of gigs. Last Tuesday night, it was Jazz Live at City College with a quartet comprised of guitarist ...

Valle's Equinox Sells Out 98 Bottles

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24655/ I have occasionally described the attendance at 98 Bottles as "packed," or, "sold-out," and while those descriptions were true, they don't come close to illustrating the audience situation for last night's Jaime Valle concert ...

Nicole Mitchell Dazzles at UCSD

The groundbreaking and innovative flutist Nicole Mitchell offered up an evening of stellar music to a small, but enthusiastic audience at the acoustically superb Conrad Prebys Hall last night at UCSD. The program was divided ...

Mehldau Trio's Sold Out Show

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/16/24506/ The Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute series continued last night with a bang: the long-awaited return of the Brad Mehldau Trio, a concert that had been sold-out virtually since its announcement a few ...

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