Rebirth of the Cool: The Strange Plethora of Jazz Jams in San Diego
“The very first time I sat in, I got kicked off the stage in the middle of a song.” Jazz musician Ben Wanicur is talking years ago about a jam session in Washington DC and he invokes a code used …
Yoga Girl Rides Again
It gets complicated: Scott Wilson, a Santee blues rocker wrote, recorded, and released “Yoga Girl” in June. Then, in November, a hip-hop song with the same name surfaced. Same name, different song, and it got 450,000 hits on YouTube. David …
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 …
I Once Shared a Urinal with Dougie MacLean
Dan Chusid is showing up more and more in publications and online in the small print around the margins of concert images of rock stars. A music photographer, the bulk of Chusid’s assignment work is done for Sound Diego (NBC.com) …