Vocalist Connie Evingson made her Dunsmore Room debut a few months ago at a special “New Year’s Eve Eve.” Now she’s back for another special “eve” on Wednesday, March 30 — special because 1) any night with Connie is special, 2) the Dunsmore Room and it’s amazing Bosendorfer grand create a special ambience, and 3) […]
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After a dozen-plus years as the acoustic engine for iconic bands The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, as well as launching his own Trucking Company, Dave King is accustomed to arguments about the proper classification of his music. Jazz? Fusion? Rock? If his solo piano release, Indelicate, was a surprise, perhaps his trio recording, I’ve […]
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With the Grammies done for another year, I have to add my two cents. Each of the nominees in the Jazz Vocal Album category released an exceptional album in 2015. And what if the winning Tony Bennett/Bill Charlap album (The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern) had been cast into the “Jazz Vocal” rather […]
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There is no question that there are great women players in jazz. And a recent series of shows in the Bay Area not only emphasized this fact, but left many yearning for more. Despite some progress in the scope of prominent women players active in the music, there still remains the situation of deep gaps […]
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Well behaved women seldom make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1976) The long-running Big Band Night at Jazz Central Studios brings at least four area big band ensembles into the basement gallery every month, every Tuesday night. When there’s a fifth Tuesday, like this month, there’s often a new or unusual ensemble on the schedule. […]
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