Founded in 1971 as the California High School Jazz Competition and re-named the Next Generation Jazz Festival in 2004, this event has become o…
Trust me, you have heard film composer Alan Silvestri’s music.
Antonio Sanchez uses his drumset as therapy – a place he feels the safest, because he is in command of his emotions.
The pioneering jazz drummer/composer brings a boatload of chops to the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Al Di Meola was just a 19-year-old student at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1974 when a jazz giant, pianist Chick Corea, approached hi…
A Carmel native transformed his love of skateboarding into a thriving business.
Midway through a 1978 Weather Report concert in Offenbach, Germany, the stage lights on keyboardist Joe Zawinul, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Peter Erskine went dark…
The first ever Father’s Day Blues Festival in the Forest at Poppy Hills Golf Club will culminate in an explosive extended jam of B.B. King’s “…
In a way, Esperanza Spalding’s “Little Fly” – a William Blake poem she remolded into a song accompanied by upright bass and an understated str…