This past Wednesday was the first night of five consecutive nights of jazz for me this weekend — five nights of very different and very diverse musicians from dozens of different backgrounds. My first night led me to the Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club in Studio City to check out the Bob Sheppard quartet — [...]
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It’s been quite the eventful month at The Jazz Post. As of about a week ago I’m now eighteen years of age — and in about a week I’ll be donning the iconic graduation gown and retiring the title of this blog’s “high school jazz musician.” Although it’s a bit sad to let it go, [...]
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I’ll admit that I didn’t go out to the Blue Whale to see Bob Reynolds because I knew who he was, because I was familiar with his music, or because I knew he’d been playing with John Mayer. In fact, prior to last week, I’ll admit that I knew very little about him at all [...]
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I recently spent the last few weeks with the Southern California School Band & Orchestra Association‘s All-Southern Jazz All-Stars — selected from about two hundred aspiring student jazz musicians in Southern California this year. It was quite the experience, to say the least, to be able to play with so many incredibly talented jazz musicians [...]
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There’s a few key things that have happened to me since the last time I wrote to you here at The Jazz Post. I’m now several weeks into my last semester of high school (which is a bit more difficult to wrap my head around than I’d imagined it would be), I’ve started studying with [...]
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I am now a member of the Columbia University Class of 2015. This means that next fall, The Jazz Post will be told from the perspective of a Columbia University student finding her place in New York City. This means that I’ll be studying, reading, writing, playing, and performing jazz in one of the biggest [...]
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During my sprint to catch a recommended show at University of the Streets, I shot out this tweet: To which I got this response from Fully Altered Media: Although I never got any clarification as to what he was referring to by “youthful innocence” — a term that can be taken in several different ways [...]
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It goes without saying that New York City is a very special place for me, especially when I’m greeted with this kind of view from my hotel window. Last week I headed out to NYC, my second visit to the city in my lifetime, this time to meet with a university jazz ensemble as a [...]
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To put it lightly, I’ve been exposed to quite a bit of new ideas in this last month. The Angel City Jazz Festival especially reminded me that, accessibility issues set aside, there’s much of this music that I’ve yet to understand. I received multiple advisories that the concert would be very “different” — a “different” [...]
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This past weekend I headed to a more local venue: the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Pasadena, CA — a mere forty minutes from my house compared to the six-hour flight to New York City. It’s the second time I’ve seen the Vijay Iyer Trio perform this summer (minus the drummer — in [...]
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