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Adams Avenue gone funky
The beginnings of a genuine scene.
I had intended to arrive at Rosie O’ Grady’s well before the music started. Like most of life’s good intentions, that plan was thwarted by a personal inertia more powerful than wishful thinking. As I ...
Los Texmaniacs joined by Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos for local gig
“We’re expecting a large crowd” at Adams Avenue Street Fair says Steve Kader
“I love exposing people to all types of music,” explains Steve Kader, the talent buyer for the Adams Avenue Street Fair, a gig he’s held for the past 15 years after logging seven with 4th ...
A Snapshot of Curtis Taylor
“I’m very much in a transitional time right now”
“I’ve got a nice crew with me and I’m excited we we’re able to put this album together,” says trumpeter Curtis Taylor about Snapshot, his latest record that dropped last month. Snapshot was recorded live ...
Bassist Omar Lopez’s good fortune with the Wailers and the B-Side Players
“The bass is like the foundation — you are the glue between the harmony and the rhythm.”
Local bassist Omar Lopez (Áfrojazziacs, Juice Box) came to San Diego in 2006, to study at San Diego State. He’s originally from Calipatria, down in the Imperial Valley. Lopez just turned 31, and he’s been ...
Saxophonist Robert Dove’s Blind Lady Ale House ally
He’s pumped about his new Thursday night jam session
“I came out here six years ago from Columbus, Ohio because of an ex-girlfriend,” says saxophonist Robert Dove. “But San Diego is one of the world’s best kept secrets, musically, and I fell in love ...
Whitney Shay: blues purge
“There’s a much greater appreciation in Europe for the blues”
San Diego blues belter Whitney Shay had a definite vision in mind when she cut her last album, A Woman Rules the World. That vision turned out to be prescient. “I was very specific about ...
Poway’s Victor Baker once commissioned by guitar-making icon D’Angelico
Arch-top jazz guitars “aren’t cheap, but they are reasonably priced for a professional player.”
Two years ago, Victor Baker arrived from the East Coast and set his one-man arch-top jazz guitar shop — initially, in Lemon Grove. Since then, he’s moved everything into his large home in Poway. What ...
Jake Najor and the Moment of Truth drops new album In the Cut
With guest appearances by MixMaster Wolf, Burkey, and Jamie Allensworth
“This is something I’ve always wanted to do, and face it, I just turned 41, so it was time to get something out there under my own name,” relates funk drum ace Jake Najor regarding ...
How Rebecca Jade & The Cold Fact began
“We know each other a lot better and there is a different, deeper camaraderie happening”
Vocalist Rebecca Jade has had a busy year. Between local gigs all over the county and out-of-town touring as a backup singer for pop-star Sheila E., she still managed to record a follow-up album, Running ...
