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NATURAL SPRINGS

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 …

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SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE 2019

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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JOHN MAYALL’S BLUES

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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GREGORY PORTER AND DIANNE REEVES

REEVES AND PORTER SATISFY Dianne Reeves and Gregory Porter share the bill in Costa Mesa by CRISTOFER GROSS he Orange County big-venue jazz year got off to an encouraging start January 16, with Dianne Reeves and Gregory Porter each performing solid hour-plus sets at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The audience, more age- and …

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A JONES FOR MILES

A JONES FOR MILES Musician, composer and educator Sean Jones is in the trumpet chair for SFJAZZ Collective’s 2016-17 tribute tour to Miles Davis. by CRISTOFER GROSS n 1988, Sean Jones was a 10-year-old learning to play drums in Warren, Ohio when he heard that his grandfather played trumpet during World War II. That, and …

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