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Top 15 SD Jazz Concerts for 2011
This list of the top-fifteen concerts was culled from more than 100 I attended this year. There were some I missed, due to personal economics, like Herbie Hancock and Return To Forever IV, but as it was, whittling those 100 …
9 Beet Stretch
9 Beet Stretch. My friend asked if I'd heard of it after the Symphony concert of Beethoven's Ninth. I hadn't. He explained that it is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony stretched out over a 24 hour period with no pitch distortion. He …
Best Choir in San Diego
Musica Vitale could make an argument for being the best choir in San Diego County. They've been singing quality concerts since 2006 but not too many people have heard of them. I went to their concert at All Souls' Episcopal …
Steph Johnson Live in North Park
Last night's Holiday Concert at the Sunset Temple by Steph Johnson, a singer, songwriter and guitarist with seemingly unlimited potential, was a prime example of an emergent artist spreading her wings. Two years ago, Ms. Johnson was working at a …
Scott West "Standing on the Moon" Video Hits 100,000 Views
Scott West's music video for "Standing on the Moon," from his album Sex on Sunday, passed 100,000 views this week. West began developing Sex On Sunday with Ian Samwell in 2002. “I used to have lunch with Ian on Fridays, …
White-Livingstone-Schnelle at 98 Bottles
98 Bottles in Little Italy has been open just 10 weeks now, but they've established a forward-thinking policy of featuring jazz musicians in performance--always a welcome trend. Thursday night, they opened with a bang with the Joshua White Trio, which, …
Steph Johnson Holiday Concert @ Sunset Temple
Sultry singer/ songwriter/ guitarist Steph Johnson is deep in preparation for a special San Diego concert Dec. 17, at the Sunset Temple, 3911 Kansas St. in North Park. Johnson's work is well known to SD music fans. Her first CD, …
I Know What You’re Thinking: Mattson2
The Mattson brothers of La Jolla invented a genre called surf jazz. But don’t confuse it with the surf rock of the 1960s. In the case of the Mattsons the essence of their sound is simple: straight ahead jazz and …
Blame Astrology - Third Thursday Experimental Radness
No doubt surfing the cosmic adumbrations of Saturday morning’s lunar eclipse (yeah, I slept through it, too), tomorrow holds not only one of my favorite experimental monthlies (Liquid Geometry Presents), not only my other favorite experimental monthly (Makeout Weird), but …
A Symphony Is No Joke
With Beethoven's Ninth behind us at the San Diego Symphony, what's next? Brahms's First Symphony at the La Jolla Symphony. Granted, the Brahms isn't until February, but it's a happy coincidence. Brahms worked on his First Symphony for at least …
One Man Country Blues @ Jazz Live
December's blues show at KSDS Jazz Live got a definite shot in the arm tonight with the performance of singer /songwriter, country blues specialist Doug Macleod. Macleod is as much a storyteller as anything else, and his stories are pretty …
I Just Can't Get Enough
My break up with Handel's Messiah lasted all of a week. I found myself at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish, in Carlsbad, participating in the La Jolla Symphony's annual sing along. That Messiah is tough to give up. It's always there, …
Jamuel Saxon: New Year, New Video, New Album
Jamuel Saxon's debut full-length Pre-Madonna will be available digitally January 17, 2012 on local Single Screen Records. The announcement comes off the heels of the release of the video for the album's first single "Planetarium," a celestial sway-and-shake party anthem …
San Diego Symphony: Choppy Beethoven
Conductor John Nelson has an impressive resume. He's conducted four of the "big five" American orchestras. He's conducted at The Met and Lyric Opera of Chicago and has worked at several major houses in Europe. He also won a Grammy …