April, Jazz Appreciation Month, was celebrated royally in Santa Barbara this year. Starting off with a bang, the fabulous SBJS 2017 Scholarship Award Winner, Dos Pueblos High School Jazz Band, played a couple of dazzling tunes: Guy Noirs’s Brother featuring Tommy Mooy on trombone and Marco Alcaino on alto sax and Junkwagon with Henry [...]
[slickr-flickr search="sets" set="72157693657817555" items=“36” type="gallery"] The Journey is Just as Exciting as The Destination When Emmet Cohen’s trio played last Sunday for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society event at SOhO, their fresh takes on classic standards kept everyone on their toes – not only the enthusiastic audience but even the stellar musicians looked amused [...]
By Natalie Wilson Well, we did it again…another amazing jazz concert presented by the Santa Barbara Jazz Society! We have had nothing but the very best jazz events these past few years and this one was no exception. Janis Mann is one of a very few true jazz singers around today. Her marvelous voice and sense [...]
The L.A.6 In keeping with the oncoming holiday, Halloween, SB Jazz Society members and friends were awarded plenty of musical treats on a fine late October afternoon. The L.A.6, a great band composed of some of the finest musicians LA has to offer, played their collective hearts out. A great opener, the Eternal Triangle, [...]
With an afternoon dedicated to famed lyricist, Johnny Mercer, Kristen Korb and company led us on a delightful tour of his unforgettable music. Most of the tunes were familiar, but others were her original tunes using Mercer’s unpublished poems…the result being a magical afternoon of pure enjoyment. Starting out with Too Marvelous for Words, [...]
Annual Summer Party & Jam Session August 2017 Photos by Mark McDonald [slickr-flickr search="sets" set="72157684736309964" items=“50” type="gallery"]
The Kim Richmond/Kimberly Ford Ensemble - July 9, 2017 Well, it’s hard to beat yesterday’s concert at SOhO! It was billed as a tribute to Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell, but it was much, much more! Kim Richmond, along with Kimberly Ford and four great young musicians, put on a stunning concert. Richmond quipped [...]
