Tagged Jazz

On December 15, Fox Theater opened its venue to French Kiwi Juice, with featuring artists ((( O ))) and Masego. French Kiwi Juice’s opener was the ethereal ((( O ))) (also known as June Marieezy), a Filipin...

My own personal experience with Seal and his music takes me back to my high school choir days when my vocal jazz group sang an a cappella rendition of his Grammy-winning song “Kissed By a Rose”. It was one ...

This Saturday, pop singer-songwriter Ashe will join electronic duo Louis the Child for a stop at Oakland’s Fox Theater as part of their “Last to Leave” tour. Previously best known for her vocal feature on...

I had been a fan of Fête Records (pronounced 'fet') since I discovered them earlier this year. So when they announced their debut event in the Bay Area featuring a full lineup at the New Parish in Oakland, I ...

What were you doing the summers you had off from school?  Well, probably like me, you weren’t doing a whole lot.  But if you were Luke and Tess Pretty, you might have been touring and performing jazz covers...

When I heard that one of my co-workers, Carter Ward, produces hip-hop music after work, I assumed that it would essentially be a manifestation of memes targeting hometown rappers -- a classic case of a Soundclo...

Running for twenty-five miles along the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County is a strip of water called the Arroyo Seco, meaning “dry stream” in Spanish. As a seasonal river, the Arroyo S...

While opener London O’Connor’s Casio beats and playfully simple melodies were nostalgic and innocently satisfying, and follow-up act rapper Hodgy (of Odd Future fame) gave an engaging and commanding perform...

Walking up the stairs of a historic venue, it’s surreal realizing how many famous artists have walked the same steps. The walls of the Fillmore in San Francisco are lined with action shots of music’s most p...

If you and yours are tired of studying/chilling/euphemism-ing to Top 40 R&B, try some neo-soul. It's a good time to get into it, considering artists like Solange, Xenia Rubinos, and Frank Ocean have release...

Con Brio's music is a dynamic collaboration of funk, soul, R&B, and jazz elements, elements that appear in infectiously groovy compilations of tracks on both their EP Kiss the Sun (2015) and newly released...

The night of December 10 teased Los Angeles with light rain and black clouds. For those about the streets clear skies returned around eight. Those awaiting inside Club Nokia for Inglewood native and jazz prodig...

It’s a typical Thursday night under the dim incandescent lighting of the Metropolis Café basement in Union Square, New York. Androgynous dancers cast gyrating shadows over a stage split evenly among a DJ, a...

Audiences at Cal Performances on Thursday, March 19 witnessed two seminal jazz composers, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, produce an experimental showcase testament to their illustrious and diverse careers as s...

Where hip-hop and jazz meet, there is immeasurable beauty. From A Tribe Called Quest to the productions of the late Nujabes, rappers’ flows and polyrhythmic melodies seem to create some holy matrimony in ...