This weekend marks the marriage of two favorite things of mine — the Los Angeles jazz scene and the the Blue Whale — both of which are coming together for the inaugural Los Angeles Jazz Collective Memorial Weekend Festival (or the MeMoWee Fest, as the LA Jazz Collective seems to have dubbed it on their [...]
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It’s been at least forty-eight hours and I still have Pomp and Circumstance ringing in my ears. This past Friday marked the official end of my four-year career at West Ranch High School — and the end of four years with an incredible jazz band (and band director, who you’ll get to know a bit [...]
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A friend recently gave me Jazz Profiles: The Spirit of the Nineties, a book consisting of interviews with some big names from the nineties — people like Wynton & Bradford Marsalis, Cynthia Blackman, and Joshua Redman. While the book did leave me inspired to check out a few albums (like Oscar and Benny from the [...]
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