INTRODUCTION Are you in a band or thinking about starting one? Consider formalizing the arrangement with your fellow musicians by creating a band member agreement. WHAT’S...
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...
Recorded at his home studio, On Track Recording Studio in Imperial Beach, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Dave Preston recorded, mixed, and mastered Alligator Shoes and also wrote...
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...
