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The Next Generation Jazz Festival unloads hundreds of bands on Monterey.
Music

The Next Generation Jazz Festival unloads hundreds of bands on Monterey.

  • Paul Fried
  • Mar 30, 2017

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…

Before the Champion of the Arts award gala, film composer Alan Silvestri talks creativity.
Arts & Culture

Before the Champion of the Arts award gala, film composer Alan Silvestri talks creativity.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 14, 2017

Trust me, you have heard film composer Alan Silvestri’s music.

Drummer Antonio Sanchez talks about writing score for Birdman.
Cover story

Drummer Antonio Sanchez talks about writing score for Birdman.

  • NIC COURY - MCW
  • Sep 15, 2016

Antonio Sanchez uses his drumset as therapy – a place he feels the safest, because he is in command of his emotions.

Terri Lyne Carrington
Face to Face

Terri Lyne Carrington

  • Walter Ryce
  • Sep 15, 2016

The pioneering jazz drummer/composer brings a boatload of chops to the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Jazz guitar shredder Al Di Meola at Golden State Theater.
Music

Jazz guitar shredder Al Di Meola at Golden State Theater.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Jun 23, 2016

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…

Zarosh Eggleston
Face to Face

Zarosh Eggleston

  • Nic Coury
  • Oct 15, 2015

A Carmel native transformed his love of skateboarding into a thriving business.

Monterey Jazz Festival pays tribute to the greatest bassist ever.
Cover story

Monterey Jazz Festival pays tribute to the greatest bassist ever.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Sep 17, 2015

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…

Father’s Day Blues Festival in the Forest at Poppy has a lot to celebrate.
Music

Father’s Day Blues Festival in the Forest at Poppy has a lot to celebrate.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Jun 18, 2015

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 “…

MJF headliner Esperanza Spalding raps with the Weekly about her groundbreaking Grammy Award, discovering the bass and cultivating creativity.
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MJF headliner Esperanza Spalding raps with the Weekly about her groundbreaking Grammy Award, discovering the bass and cultivating creativity.

  • By Adam Joseph
  • Sep 20, 2012

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…

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