Over the past few days…

May 27, 2011

…I’ve been having a pretty sweet weekend. And I want to share as much of it with you as I can. That being said, I’ve also jumped straight out of my graduation ceremony into some past-midnight jazz clubs — and I’ll be doing this every day until Sunday night with the Daversa band. So until [...]

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Los Angeles Jazz Collective Memorial Weekend Festival @ The Blue Whale

May 24, 2011

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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And We’re Off!

May 21, 2011

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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Jeff Babko & Shogun Warrior @ The Baked Potato

May 13, 2011

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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Hanging Out With Bob Reynolds @ the Blue Whale

February 28, 2011

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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One Off the Bucket List.

February 25, 2011

This Saturday I’ll be heading out to the Blue Whale, a jazz bar relatively nearby in Little Tokyo (which also means that I’ll be checking one off the bucket list) to hear some live jazz from saxophonist Bob Reynolds, joined by Lemar Carter on drums, Calvin Turner on bass, and Dennis Hamm on keys. Considering [...]

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Some Words From Sal Lozano

February 17, 2011

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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How’ve You Been?

January 24, 2011

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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CAP @ CalArts (and What to Check Out Next Month in Los Angeles)

December 19, 2010

Yesterday marked the end of the first CAP semester at CalArts — a program that I’m waiting to elaborate on until its final concert at CalArt’s relatively new outdoor theater, the Wild Beast. In a nutshell, the program unites CalArts students with younger students of their own in their respective areas of study. In my [...]

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And Now For the Post That I’ve Been Dreaming to Write.

December 11, 2010

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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