Lots of great NEW names in the 2013-04-29 Adds To the Jazz 88 Music Library and we'll be debuting them all this Monday, April 29, 6-8PM PT on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw! The full list is after the split, but here's 11-year old Jazzer Emily Bear with her original tune for Quincy Jones, "Q", from her New disc "Diversity"...
Anthony Smith: San Diego Vibest, Pianist, Bandleader, Writer has a new disc out "Connections, Vol 1 & 2" and a CD release party Saturday, April 27, 2013 8PM at 98 Bottles featuring Mike Wofford, Holly Hoffman, Peter Sprague, Danny Weller, AND Duncan Moore (WHAT A LINEUP!), so we'll be chatting about all of that and more TONIGHT in Hour 2 of the New!
2013-04-22 Adds To The Jazz 88 Music Library: We've got a great list of New music being added to the Jazz 88 Music Library this week including San Diegan's Gilbert Castellanos and Anthony Smith.
We've got a great list of New music being added to the Jazz 88 Music Library this week including San Diegan's Gilbert Castellanos and Anthony Smith, and, as always, you can check it all our FIRST on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday, April 22, 2013 from 6 to 8 PM PT! The full list of NEW is after the split, but here's something from Michael Dease's new one "Coming Home"...enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FF7jNYZyaQ
Walk your 47 miles of barbed wire, wear your cobra snake necktie...to our new Blues Jam happening every Thursday in Little Italy. The Blues 88.3 Jam will be hosted by the so mellow J. OtisWilliams and headlined by the renowned guitar slinger Mark Augustin. Musicians are invited to jam. Go to Busalacchi's Spaghetteria, 1953 India St. and get into the scene from 7-10pm. It's FREE and family-friendly. The wire, the tie, it's a blues thing, baby.
Jazz 88.3, with the support of the San Diego Youth Symphony, presented the 9th annual “Music Matters Instrument Drive,” last month. This year’s drive benefitted students in the San Diego City Schools and the San Diego Youth Symphony. We want to thank you for all your donated used musical instruments. Special thanks toColes Fine Flooring for handling all of the instruments.
Gilbert Castellanos "Federal Jazz Project" Score Music - Gilbert is bringing the new CD by TNJT TONIGHT in Hour 2 (around 7:20 PM PT) and we'll be playing tunes from it and chatting about the music, the project, and more!
Riding rhythms and rhyme into SD's past (James Hebert, SDUT): "...it’s about finding harmony between two distinct forms of art: the meticulously crafted and rehearsed discipline of theater and the generally more freewheeling, improv-driven world of jazz."
2013-04-15 Adds To The Jazz 88 Music Library: A great mix of instruments (sax, electric bass, drums, trumpet, flute, voice), familiar names (Douglas, Feinstein, Monheit, Peyroux, Rotondi), and new discoveries (Stephen Anderson, Nicole Mitchell) all being added to the Jazz 88 Music Library this week
Top 10 Countdown Jazzweek.com Jazz Album Chart Monday, April 15, 2013: No. 1 this week on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart is Aaron Diehl The Bespoke Man’s Narrative (Mack Avenue). The most added (+23) and biggest gainer (+93) is Eldar Djangirov Trio Breakthrough (Motema). The week’s highest debut (No. 30) is Ben Sidran Don’t Cry For No Hipster (Nardis) and the most reported CDs (50 stations) are Monty Alexander Uplift 2 (Jazz Legacy Productions) and Eric Alexander Touching (HighNote).