Stories, interviews, and reviews
_ JAZZ IN PERFORMANCE SPRINGS RISING From her current tour and album to her latest muscle car, things are looking up for Kandace Springs. Read Interview RECENT ARTICLES A Bi-Coastal TLC Weekend The first part of the early November interview with Carrington provided this preview of her UCLA and New Jersey Performing Arts Center concerts […]
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Theater Amy Brenneman ‘Staying on Top’ • Amy Brenneman adds both luster and depth to the female characters she portrays, whether on stage, television, or in film. As she has gained acclaim and influence through a succession of hit TV shows, from “NYPD Blue,” to “Judging Amy,” and “Private Practice” she has been able to
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Photo by Walter Atkins SPRINGS RISING From her current tour and album to her latest muscle car, things are looking up for Kandace Springs. by CRISTOFER GROSS andace Springs has always acknowledged those who have contributed to her rise within the jazz world. Now the gifted 31-year-old singer-songwriter-musician is putting it on the record. Though
PREVIEW SFJazz Honors Miles, Stone Milestones Vibraphonist Warren Wolf previews octet’s October 25 Segerstrom Center concert. In 1969, Miles Davis and Sylvester Stone had milestone years. SFJAZZ Collective, which by design has a milestone year every year, is marking the half-century anniversaries of those artists’ landmarks with fresh arrangements of music from Davis’s In a
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HISTORIES Hobnobbing with Obsession A chronicle of my immersion into Sondheim’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ and and a healing luncheon with the show’s star, George Hearn. by Cristofer Gross, from AirCal Magazine, June 1981 his is not a review: it’s an exorcism. A year ago, through the original cast album of 1979’s Best Musical, I began to
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PREVIEW: MARCH 20-24, 2019 Bring in the Jazz-Funk Lettuce and John Scofield create a fusion septet for five California concerts in Los Angeles and San Francisco. hough they graduated from Berklee College of Music nearly a generation apart, guitarist John Scofield and the founding members of Lettuce are in the same elite class of jazz-funk
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A BI-COASTAL TLC WEEKEND Drummer-Composer-Educator Terri Lyne Carrington to perform in Los Angeles on November 9 and Newark on November 11 by CRISTOFER GROSS n Friday evening, November 9, drummer-composer-educator Terri Lyne Carrington will headline a special concert in UCLA’s Royce Hall. Two days later she will be at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center
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LEVELING FANS AND PLAYING FIELDS After flooring a jazz concert crowd with her celebration of legendary women at UCLA Terri Lyne Carrington launches a new Jazz and Gender Justice program at Berklee. by CRISTOFER GROSS n 1998, Terri Lyne Carrington was the second musician to arrive for one of Herbie Hancock’s Gershwin’s World recording sessions.
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PHOTO: ARNIE GOODMAN JOHN MAYALL’S BLUES LONG PLAYER: The 82-year-old ‘Godfather of British Blues’ has new recordings and tours as the Blues Hall of Fame inducts him. by CRISTOFER GROSS hile rock n’ roll of the 1950s has long been filed under oldies and the once mighty music of the Sixties and Seventies are hobbled
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INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Sonny Rollins Combined interviews with the Saxophone Colossus from 2006 and 2008. The following conversation took place by phone on March 30, 2006 between Sonny Rollins and Cristofer Gross, who was researching an article to run in The Orange County Register prior to Rollins’ April 8 concert at the
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