Organ master Bobby Cressey has assembled quite the debut album–featuring more than 20 players from the Southern California scene, including a myriad of rhythm sections and...
The latest album from John Batdorf is Next Stop, Willoughby. He has been in the music biz for 50 years, doing just about everything–as a hot...
The summer of 2017 thus far has heard a good amount of loud, crashing, dynamic music coming from my apartment–speed metal, hard rock and hard bebop,...
Back to the Garden are likely familiar to many roots fans. Guitarists Jim Soldi and Marc Twang Intravaia, keyboardist Sharon Whyte, bassist Rick Nash, and Larry...
From the county’s back country near Julian, the band Haywire has a new CD, Time Songs. Billing itself as an “eclectic folk band,” with sources as...
The electric guitar has always been kind of a “outsider” in modern jazz, and the notion of a jazz group that feature two guitarists is unusual,...
Lindsay White (check out the feature in last month’s Troubadour) is no stranger to local roots music fans, or readers of this magazine. She has been...
Lori Bell and Ron Satterfield have spent the last few years wowing and beguiling audiences with their vibrant combination of straight ahead, pop, and boss nova-inflected...
Whether they know it or not, anyone who plays the contrabass who lives in San Diego (and beyond) has been touched in one way or another...
