San Diego jazz guitarist Alex Ciavarelli will tell you in a New York minute that the late Joe Pass is his single greatest influence. And that may well be true,...
The double-bass was adopted by jazz outfits starting about a century ago to replace the tuba, which worked just fine in loud nightclubs but tended to...
The musical alter ego of San Diego’s T.C. Johnston—GMacGuffin—seems to serve the same kind of foil that the stage character Country Dick Montana provided Dan McLain...
SALINAS ROAD By Suzanne Shea I’m a sucker for harmonies, really tasty guitar work, and stripped down tunes… minimal production. Salinas Road was right...
Sandé Lollis’ second solo album, Between Things Not Remembered, marks a triumphant return as well as her first release since stepping away from her long-time trio,...
Simeon Flick is a force of nature in the San Diego music scene. I’ve been lucky enough to review two of his classical disks for the...
Billing itself as Christian rockabilly, the twelfth album from San Diego’s Jackslacks is more akin to post-Beatles power pop crossed with a few veterans from Sun...
This album is both exuberant and contemplative, marked by assured, off-kilter improvisations Many Troubadour readers will remember local boy John Mailander as the kid from the...
BASK 2 is the fifth album by the collaboration of composers Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich, a follow up from their previously released BASK 1. It’s...
