ocd feels and sounds like perfect road trip music. Soft, harmonizing vocals, mixed with dreamy pop sounds permeate your senses and feels like a good long car ride. Perhaps that...
When Victor Baker, a self-described lifelong jazz guitar nut, isn’t building an instrument, he is writing, preparing, and playing his original music with his group. His...
Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker helped to introduce an Afro-Cuban feel into the world of jazz via his contribution to composer Chico O’Farrill’s composition “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite,”...
The Face of 68 is the latest offering from multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Peter Holsapple, who recently performed at Palo Verde House Concerts. Holsapple is based out of...
A San Diego mainstay for more than 45 years, Ira B. Liss and his Big Band Jazz Machine’s seventh album is definitely their most ambitious, unquestionably...
Garrison Bailey may be the most under-the-radar singer you’ve never heard of. Her album, Into the Mirror I Sing, Chapter 1, features her soulful voice in...
Taylor Harvey has been knocking around the local music scene since the 1990s but got a deservedly elevated profile when the Farmers had him open some...
Local guitarist Peter Sprague earned most his reputation playing jazz at a world-class level. But his musical interests are far ranging; recent recordings have found him...
One of the mainstays of folk music—at least the working-class school pioneered by Woody Guthrie—is singing the stories of folks on the edge of polite society,...