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Santa Cruz: Cruzing
by Mark F. Turner
After a 25-year hiatus, one of Europe's premier fusion bands, Santa Cruz, reunited at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 2005 and demonstrated to the enthusiastic crowd that its music was still as energetic as ever. The Danish quartet, led by drummer Alex Riel, delivered the retro sounds of '70s and '80s fusion, comprised of equal parts harmony, arrangements and heady improvisation. At a concise 41 minutes, the recording still packs a huge punch, with stimulating performances and ...
read moreChihiro Yamanaka Trio At Kuumbwa Jazz In Santa Cruz, Yoshi's San Francisco, April 11 & 13
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SF Media
The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform April 11 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA and April 13 at Yoshi’s San Francisco. The trio, led by jazz pianist, composer and arranger Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note Records artist, features bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr.. The concerts are part of a west coast tour that also includes April 9 at Dizzy’s in San Diego and April 10 at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles. This is ...
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Chihiro Yamanaka Trio, March 28 At Kuumbwa Jazz Center In Santa Cruz, Ca
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SF Media
The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform March 28 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA. The concert marks the Kuumbwa debut and first multi-city west coast tour by Chihiro, a Universal Music recording artist and influential jazz pianist and composer whose high-energy live performances have inspired comparisons to such modern greats as Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett. Kuumbwa Jazz Center is at 320-2 Cedar St. in Santa Cruz. The concert begins at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $18 at the ...
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Santa Cruz Blues: Doobies, Los Lobos, J. Osborne, Jonny Lang
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JamBase
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION KICKS OFF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND The San Cruz Blues Festival 20th anniversary celebration will kick off Memorial Day Weekend on May 26-27 at Aptos Village Park in Aptos, CA. To get the party started, Doobie Brothers and Los Lobos will headline on Saturday, while Jonny Lang and Los Lonely Boys will close out Sunday. See the rest of the lineup below. Tickets are now available for purchase online here, at Moe's Alley (Santa Cruz) and Streetlight Records ...
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Joe DeRose and Amici LIVE at Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Santa Cruz, CA) - Sunday, June 26th / 4:00pm
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Hristo Vitchev
Blend vibrant jazz fusion, ECM harmonies, and soulful melodies and you get Joe De Rose and Amici. Joe De Rose, a native of the Bay Area, has been playing drums professionally for 21 years in various styles ranging from Jazz, Funk, Hip-Hop, Latin, Blues, Rock to Fusion. He is an alumni of the Alum Rock Jazz Band (88) and has also graduated from The Prestigious Berklee College of music. Joe has toured Europe, Japan, and the states with various artists ...
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Santa Cruz Blues Fest: Boz Scaggs, Experience Hendrix, Shorty
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JamBase
PRIMO DAYTIME FEST NEAR THE BAY The 19th Annual Santa Cruz Blues Festival will take place in Aptos Village Park over Memorial Day weekend. The lineup for this year includes: Saturday May 28, 2011 Experience Hendrix featuring: Billy Cox (Band of Gypsys), Steve Vai, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd; David Hidalgo & Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos), Living Colour, North Mississippi Allstars Duo (Luther & Cody); Chris Layton (SRV & Double Trouble), Ernie Isley, Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), ...
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35 years of Jazz in Santa Cruz, California Celebrated through Jazz Alley Mural
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Bennett Jackson
Santa Cruz, California's Kuumbwa Jazz Center has grown from its small beginnings to one of the most highly respected jazz-presenting institutions in the country, attracting artists of national and international renown. In 2010, the venue turned 35 and celebrated by helping to commission Jazz Alley, a 80-foot-by-12-foot mural depicting five famous jazz artists, but not the usual suspects that have been immortalized on similar murals throughout the world. The artists were chosen by Kuumbwa Jazz as musicians that have been ...
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Austin-Based Trumpeter Erik Telford to Appear with His Sextet, the Erik Telford Collective, at Kuumbwa (Santa Cruz) 1/13 & Jazzschool (Berkeley) 1/15
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Austin trumpeter/composer Erik Telford returns to his native California in January 2011 to perform two concerts with his Texas-based sextet, the Erik Telford Collective—on Thursday 1/13, at Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz, and Saturday 1/15, at the Jazzschool in Berkeley. The shows are in support of his debut CD Kinetic, which Telford released earlier this year on his ETJ Music label. The Boston Globe's Steve Greenlee wrote of Kinetic that it “represents everything that is right with contemporary jazz.... Telford announces ...
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JFJO | 02.10 | Santa Cruz
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JamBase
By: Dennis Cook
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey :: 02.10.10 :: Moe's Alley :: Santa Cruz, CA
Wow, what a different band.
JFJO by Jeremy Charles Tilted gently but firmly by Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's fully interlocked, supremely slinky sound waves at Moe's Alley, I couldn't escape the feeling of newness and excitability generated by the band. But, I also couldn't slip the feeling that I was watching an almost entirely different being from the one I encountered at my ...
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The Staxx Brothers | 11.19 | Santa Cruz
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JamBase
By: Dennis Cook
The Staxx Brothers :: 11.19.09 :: Moe's Alley :: Santa Cruz, CA
The Staxx Brothers by Michael Profitt In funk music we find a pronounced commingling of elements, where rock, jazz and R&B bump uglies, moistened with soulful lubrication and powered by a church-like need to get folks onto their feet and out of their constrictions. When done right, funk hits one like happy lightning with a bumptious thunderclap that shakes our preconceptions and lights a ...
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New CD by "Santa Cruz" - Leading Danish Fusion Band
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Michael Ricci
SANTA CRUZ Jazz-rock fusion
Alex Riel (drums) Poul Halberg (guitar) Frans Bak (keys) Hans Ulrik (sax) Bo Stief (bass) During the 1980s SANTA CRUZ was one of the most successful jazz-rock fusion bands in Denmark. Today their only release from those days, the LP Daylight from 1985, has a cult like status in the country. Since then each of the band members has been leading their ...
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