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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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 Eric Alexander © Andrea Canter
Jazz at Pearl's will present the New York tenor Titan, Eric Alexander from Friday, March 16th through Sunday, March 18th with sets at 8:00 and 10:00 PM. Eric Alexander's Quartet for this engagement will include a solid, swinging West coast rhythm section consisting of pianist Joe Gilman from Sacramento, Akira Tana on drums and Michael Zisman on bass.
With 19 CD's out under his own name and appearing as sideman on countless others, Eric Alexander has made his mark on the jazz world and documented his progress as a tenor master. He has a rich tone and an aggressive, confident, driving style that grabs the listener's attention and doesn't let go. One can hear the influence of Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean and George Coleman in his playing. A mainstay of the New York jazz scene, Alexander appears regularly at the hip, uptown nightclub, Smoke. |
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 Roy Hargrove © Howard A, Gitelson
- March 01 at 8:00 PM (6:00 PM doors) Kurt Elling $16.00 and 10:00 PM (9:45 PM doors) $10.00 at Yoshi's in Oakland 510.238.4205
- March 01 Kat Parra Latin World Jazz Vocalist at Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco.
- March 01- Roger 'Hurricane' Wilson at Chris Club, Vallejo
- March 01 WAYNE HORVITZ SWEETER THAN THE DAY at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz (831) 427-2227
- March 01- 6pm - 9pm Sonya Jason's 'Style' at Half Moon Bay Brewing Co., Princeton-By-The-Sea
- March 01- 7:00pm -10:00pm Modest Orchestra w/ Rachael Magidson at The Orinda House, Orinda
- March 01- 7:00pm - 10:30pm Jennifer Lee, Larry Dunlap & Michael O'Neill at Cetrella's, Half Moon Bay
- March 01- 7pm to 10pm Robin DuBois & Josh Workman at Panama Hotel, San Rafael
- March 01- 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm Jenny Ferris/Mark Zannini duo at Simple Pleasures Cafe, San Francisco
- March 01- 8 ALTA Latin Jam at Savanna Jazz, San Francisco
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"Don't be stuck in the past but retain the greatness of it. And live in the moment, live in the future." -- Wallace Roney
 Wallace Roney © Andrea Canter
On Sunday, February 25th the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society presents Wallace Roney at the Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach, Half Moon Bay, California, near San Francisco. Doors Open at 3 PM, Music from 4:30 to 7:30 PM, with intermission. The band includes Wallace Roney, trumpet, his brother Antoine Roney on sax, Eric Allen on drums, Rashaan Carter on bass, Robert Irving on piano. and Val Jeantry on turntables. Roney, much like his mentor Miles Davis, is a highly skilled, expressive performer and an active force in the evolution of jazz.
Wallace Roney, while one of the most accomplished and acclaimed trumpeters in jazz today, remains one of today's most misunderstood jazz masters. Roney rose to national prominence in the 1980's as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, earning favorable notice as a young lion with impressive technique in the Clifford Brown-Lee Morgan-Freddie Hubbard tradition. By the middle of the decade Roney was holding down a difficult dual membership with both the Messengers and Tony Williams' Quintet. Soon he began to display a more thoughtful and spacious approach to sound and improvisation -- one that nodded in the direction of Williams' former leader, Miles Davis, who by that time had befriended the young trumpeter, having given him the blue horn that is his trademark. |
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 Jonathan Poretz © Amy Tolbert In January of this year, Poretz released his debut album A Lot Of Livin’ To Do [click here for a Jazz Police review] and continues to demonstrate both on and off the stage the self-assuredness that all good performers have. While Poretz’s vocals have a swagger similar to Bobby Darin and are full of energy his offstage demeanor is more relaxed as he exudes a quiet confidence that seems to say, ‘I am living in the moment.’ |
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 Don Byron © Till Krautkraemer
For over a decade, clarinetist and composer Don Byron has been exploring widely divergent traditions while continually striving for what he calls "a sound above genre." Down Beat's 1992 "Jazz Artist of the Year" redefines every genre of music he plays, from funk and salsa to classical and klezmer, and any jazz style from swing and bop to cutting-edge improvisation. Time Magazine says: "Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet - it just doesn't begin to describe it... Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category." |
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