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That Other Bach
“April the 16th 1776, Lord Fauconbery sent me a ticket for Bach and Abel’s Concert at the assembly room in Hanover Square. "The performers were the two above mentioned, the second played a solo exceeding well. In all about 22 …
Third Story CD-Release Party March 2 @ 98 Bottles
Former San Diegans bassist Danny Weller and guitarist Jeff Miles return home from Brooklyn, NY, to reunite with LA drummer Jens Kuross and San Diego piano monster Joshua White for a CD-Release party celebrating their recording, Third Story, on Friday, …
Slippery-Footed Styletones Slide into Bar Pink
If, on an off chance, you're wondering what the love spawn of James Brown and Janis Joplin would look like, check out the Styletones. Headed up by the charisma of the slippery-footed Steve Harris, the San Diego R&B/funk/soul combo had …
Superhuman
If greatness is overcoming adversity then Jay Hunter Morris is great. He flew across the country, stepped into a demanding role sans rehearsal, presented a fully developed character, and made it look easy. His performance as Captain Ahab in Moby …
Queen Bee's Abuzz Over Lake Street Dive
The upright bass so deftly manipulated by Bridget Kearney was too high in the mix. If the New England Conservatory-seeded band wasn’t used to adapting to diverse environments, this could have been a problem. Forty-plus appreciators, some of whom seemed …
2-22-03: The Day Paul McCartney Played a Private Local Bday Party
Nine years ago today... 2-22-03: Paul McCartney played a private party in Rancho Santa Fe. When Ralph Whitworth threw his wife a 50th birthday party at Delicias restaurant, he forked out a million bucks (for charity) to have McCartney perform …
Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio Feb. 24
Athenaeum Jazz at The Studio will continue its concert series with a special one: guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's Standards Trio on Friday, Feb. 24. Joining Rosenwinkel will be double bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Justin Faulkner. Rosenwinkel emerged into the greater …
Kim Fowley Undergoing Cancer Surgery Today, Feb. 21
72 year old famous former neighbor Kim Fowley enters the hospital today, February 21, for bladder cancer recall surgery. "Please pray for me," he posted on Facebook on Monday. "I need all the help I can get. To my enemies: …
Truthy
“I don’t worry about it. There is too much truth here [gesturing to the wall covered in recordings] to be diminished by anything or anyone”. I don’t know the name of the man who said that to me years ago …
Ben Goldberg/ Jeff Parker/ Ches Smith open Fresh Sound series.
Cutting edge music curator Bonnie Wright is back in San Diego, fresh from a six-month sojourn in New York City, where she attended more than 150 concerts as part of her ongoing effort to stay on top of the new …
Joshua White Quintet at 98 Bottles
Piano virtuoso Joshua White assembled a quintet of like-minded Southern California improvisers for an explosive and expansive evening of works by jazz icons Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman to a packed and enthusiastic audience in The Back Room at 98 …
Chris Leyva Covers 1957: Release Party February 25 @ the Griffin
“I have a new covers album called 1957 that’s mixed and done,” says busy Blizzard frontman Chris Leyva. Leyva already dropped a solo full-length this month, Live Learn Loose (released on Valentine's day). 1957 is a collection of vintage rockers, …
End of the Road for Endoxi?
Earlier this month, hometown heroes the Vision of a Dying World played their last show. Now, it looks like Endoxi is calling it a day as well. In a Facebook video, singer/guitarist Chris Wilson announced “It’s an experience we’ve all …
Peter Sprague Is in a New York State of Mind
Leucadia jazz guitarist Peter Sprague was in New York last month for a week, at a composers conference, as a perk of his $ 22,000 grant from Chamber Music America, the organization that funded his sprawling three movement composition, "Dr. …
Switchfoot Launching World Tour, New Surfing Movie, more
Switchfoot's North American tour begins March 22 in Kahului, HI, after which they’ll headline the traveling Soundwave Festival in Australia and New Zealand, where they’ll shoot footage for their upcoming surf film Fading West. They'll kick things off locally on …