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Articles by Robert Bush
After 53 years, bassist Bob Magnusson calls it quits
“Kind of Blue by Miles Davis totally blew my mind”
After 53 years of laying down the bottom end for everyone from Art Pepper to Madonna, bassist Bob Magnusson is calling it quits and withdrawing from performing in public. Magnusson came from a musical family. ...
The value of being a “working musician” for jazz drummer Nathan Hubbard
"I like the steady work, but I also love creating my own music and running my own bands.”
Drummer/composer Nathan Hubbard won the San Diego Music Award for “Best Jazz Album,” in 2014, for Encinitas and Everything, and again in 2017 for Furiously Dreaming, a project featuring his Skeleton Key Orchestra. Has the ...
Ellen Weller discovers a new, more enlightened and welcoming scene at UC San Diego
“It’s called ‘free-improvisation’ because there’s no money involved"
Ellen Weller discovers a new, more enlightened and welcoming scene at UC San Diego
The Persian fusion of Sibarg Ensemble use 12th Century poetry to create melodies
“The voice is our first instrument, and the voice is connected directly to your soul”
The Persian fusion of Sibarg Ensemble use 12th Century poetry to create melodies
Kornhauser and Tordella welcome original jazz musicians to San Diego Sessions
Podcast guests span from the funky-pocket types to mainstream cats to the avant-garde
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The way a song blossoms
Peter Sprague is not adverse to using modern technology to facilitate making a perfect recording
The way a song blossoms
LP’s Jazz Vibe endures
Even if the music is really slamming and bringing in money — everything is temporary
LP’s Jazz Vibe endures
Underground jazz chamber music
“I tune pianos and I work my ass off."
Underground jazz chamber music composer Joe Garrison claims to be inching closer to retiring from the music business. His reasons? “I got into music because I thought I was going to find some sort of ...
