Big band leader Ann Patterson had to stop and think about it.
The roster of jazz musicians who call San Diego home, at least on occasion, is diverse.
Candoli spent his playing jazz trumpet with the Woody Herman orchestra.
The joys of sax were again celebrated at Donte's on Friday when Plas Johnson arrived with the quartet he calls Grease Patrol.
After just three shows, the 14-week "Jazz at the Promenade" series of Sunday afternoon concerts has been canceled because of noise complaints.
Jazz drummers, like dancers, seem to retain their light-footedness well into their mature years.
Singer Mark Winkler's best asset may be the fact that he has a minimum of technique and a maximum of style--a classic singing songwriter.
"JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN." Joe Williams. Sony. 96W50080.
Time was when you could draw an easy distinction between classical and jazz musicians: --Classical types played music exactly as it was written.
The Jazz Aid concert, subject of many reports and denials over the last several months, has been postponed from May 15 to Aug. 26.
Exactly three years have passed since Estelle Reiner, then a virtual newcomer, was reviewed here.
The surprise one patron expressed at the full house packing the Baked Potato on Monday was one indication of the rapid strides Russ Freeman has made in his career this year.
Trumpeter/composer Mark Isham's recent forays into film scoring ("Never Cry Wolf," "Mrs.
A year ago this week Stephane Grappelli graced the Southland with another of his incomparable soirees of suave, swinging sounds in an appearance , at the Beverly Theatre.
Jazz got into poet Michael C. Ford's blood at an early age and it's been flowing there ever since.
"Where's the melody?"
Pardon the paraphrase, but I have seen the past, and it works.
After a two-year hiatus, during which he did little touring in the United States, jazz fusion
Revealing an authenticity that might have pleased its namesake, Thelonious--a quartet co-led by reed artist Marty Krystall and bassist Buell Neidlinger--played both familiar and arcane tunes written by Thelonious Monk with vim and vigor during its second set Friday at the Palace Court.
The Alleycat Bistro, fast becoming the most adventurous new jazz room in town, took a calculated