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Why the great composers collaborated with ballet
Charles McPherson on composing "A Night of Jazz and Dance
Although alto saxophone master Charles McPherson moved to San Diego in 1978, gigs in his adopted hometown (he was born in Joplin, Missouri, moved to Detroit and ultimately, New York City) are relatively few and ...
Music teacher's day doesn't stop at 3:00
"I saw the effect he had on so many young people."
Day doesn’t stop at 3 pm. Tamara Hartfield Paige has taught music for 17 years, and has influenced the trajectories of many students who have gone on to professional careers, including Charles and Danny Weller, ...
Divine intervention for Lorena Isabell
Chile will always be a part of me
“I grew up under a dictatorship in Chile and I didn’t know any other reality,” mused Latin Bohemian vocalist Lorena Isabell, who is on the cusp of an album release and celebratory concert June 10 ...
Belly dancers needed Rich Mansor's music
"We could continue to be just another punk band or we could connect with this huge audience."
“It’s a combination of traditional surf rock with Egyptian rhythms fused with the visual elements of live belly dancers. Kind of Dick Dale meets Omar Khorshid,” says Rich Mansor, guitarist and leader of Zamman, an ...
Huge, high-end sound at UCSD's planned downtown venue
From a cathedral to completely dead alcove and everything in between
“We’re opening a downtown facility with a working title of ‘U.C. San Diego Urban’,” says Daniel Atkinson, director of public programs UCSD Extension, who also acts as the founder of the UCSD Jazz Camp and ...
"I’m really set on doing a song in Tagalog"
Lorraine Castellanos splits from Besos de Coco
Kissed and said goodbye, reluctantly. Fans of the all-female Latin/classical/jazz trio Besos de Coco featuring the guitar and vocals of Lorraine Castellanos, the bass of Evona Wascinski, and the tap-dance percussion of Claudia Gomez are ...
Care and feeding of Young Lions
Castellanos's kids set to storm the San Diego jazz world
Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos decided to turn his weekly Young Lions performance series at Panama 66 in Balboa Park into a fully functional after-school music program called the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory last fall. He started ...
Tickled plink to have that free piano
It's just sitting there like furniture...give it to a school
“A hundred years ago, almost every household in America had a piano,” mused Kenneth Rexrode, the driving force behind the Piano Project, a local organization that aims to pair unwanted acoustic pianos with new homes ...
Marcelo Radulovich's League not his own
"I’m not really looking for press or attention. If that happens, fine."
“Every day something new happens with Trump,” says guitarist Marcelo Radulovich, discussing the inspiration behind his latest project, Im Peach the Sequel, a “sound-collage” assembled from contributions sent to the musician and organized under the ...
