I am sitting across from Ashley E. Norton at a Coffee Bean in Carmel Mountain. She is joyous, she is happy to see me. She is...
I first met Dan Atkinson in person some 13 years ago, on a bright sunny afternoon at the now defunct KSDS/Ocean Beach Jazz Festival, although I’d...
Singer-songwriter Sandi King and singer-songwriter-guitarist Joshua Taylor are the creators of the King Taylor Project, spearheading a musical outfit they founded back in 2016, which is...
Mrs. Henry isn’t fucking around. You can tell the minute you walk into their rehearsal space, a sprawling four-car garage in the backyard of singer and...
Mike Wofford’s curriculum vitae reads like a who’s who of modern West Coast jazz, dating back to the late 1950s and continuing to this day. I’m...
Lauren Leigh stands, nearly naked, her closest friends gently painting her skin with orange, red, and yellow flames. It takes a while, and between coats, she...
Living in Southern California has its advantages. One of the most important—at least for music fans—is the incredible assortment of bars, clubs, and concert venues spread...
At age forty-five, drummer Jacob Najor has more career accomplishments than most musicians have in their lifetime. A first-call drummer with a stellar reputation in myriad...
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...
