A pleasant surprise here for jazz guitar fans seeking an obscure fretboard specialist who sounds all but ready to step into the larger spotlight. Cuban-born guitarist...
As impressive as the Beatles run on the charts over the past 60 years is, it’s doubly so when you consider their side career as songwriters...
JAVA JOE’S SHOW OF SHOWS It was over 30 years ago that Java Joe Flammini opened the first incarnation of his legendary string of performance venues,...
It has been nearly ten years since San Diego jazz hero Gilbert Castellanos released his last album (Federal Jazz Project), but he’s been quite busy in...
Flute virtuoso and concert impresaria Holly Hofmann has created such an iconic stature in the San Diego musical landscape that it’s sometimes easy to forget that...
Our esteemed Troubadour editor, Liz Abbott, asked me to devote my current column to revisiting a past exhibition topic. I mounted the exhibit, with a festival...
Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, an ironic designation if only because Dylan wasn’t a man of books, but rather a songwriter. The...
It’s not often that you get an album recorded in 1975 arriving at your desk for review some 48 years later, but wait, there’s an interesting...
In 2008, I was approaching my 800th recording project as a producer. As I often did at that time, I booked a small, “in between” session...
