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Riffs: Music News from Out and About
By Patricia Myers
The fall season concert by the long-acclaimed Young Sounds of Arizona on Tuesday Nov. 24 at Mesa Community College will be an appealing and exciting program performed by in two ensembles and a quintet comprised of talented teenage jazz musicians from metro-Phoenix high schools.
Continue ReadingReview: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
By Patricia Myers
A sophisticated and engaging performance by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis was a meld of the trumpeter-leader’s ongoing homage to jazz history with the spark of original compositions from his current colleagues in a Sept. 25 concert at the Mesa Arts Center.
Continue ReadingRiffs: Music News from Out & About
By Patricia Myers
Seven acclaimed post-graduate jazz musicians from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance/UCLA Herb Alpert School will visit six underserved central-city high schools in Phoenix Oct. 19-21.
Continue ReadingRiffs: Music news from out and about
By Patricia Myers
“The Season” is upon us once again, and the major music venues have announced their fall-winter season bookings of top-name artists starting this month. The most notable is Wynton Marsalis, who will lead and perform in the trumpet section of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Mesa Arts Center on Sept. 25-26; info at MesaArtsCenter.com.
Continue ReadingRiffs: Music News from Out and About
By Patricia Myers
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has launched “Live & Local Fridays” for a 6 pm happy hour and 8 pm concert ($10 admission) that lists July 10, Dry River Yacht Club (acoustic rock ’n’ roll, world gypsy); July 17, Linda, Carmela and Phases (R&B, jazz, fusion); July 24, The Sugar Thieves (blues); July 31, Carlos Arzate & The Kind Souls (Sonoran soul-rock), opening set by Sweet Ghosts; Aug. 7, Blues Review Band; Aug. 14, Tommy Ash Band (country, rockabilly, Americana); Aug. 21, Teneia Sanders (pop, Motown); Aug. 28, Inspiración Flamenca (vocals, guitar, dancers).
Continue ReadingReview: Papa John DeFrancesco Quartet at the Musicians Hall in Phoenix
By Patricia Myers
Hammond B3 organ maestro Papa John DeFranceso led a swinging night of hip riffs and infectious blues moves at another first-Tuesday concert series at the Musicians Hall on June 2nd.
Continue ReadingReview: Young Sounds of Arizona at the Musical Instrument Museum
By Patricia Myers
The spring concert by The Young Sounds of Arizona’s two bands and a combo was performed for a near-capacity audience on June 1st at the Musical Instrument Museum in north Phoenix.
Continue ReadingSpotlight: Opa Life Greek Café in Tempe hosts jazz nights
By Patricia Myers
The relaxed atmosphere of Opa Life Greek Café in Tempe has gained new patrons due to regular jazz performances that were started in October from the suggestion of a local jazz fan.
Continue ReadingArizona blues musician-booster receives deserved recognition
By Patricia Myers
Bob Corritore is super-big in blues news, and it’s well-deserved recognition…
First, the harmonica player, record producer and owner of the Rhythm Room in Phoenix, was the cover-story feature of Blues Blast Magazine’s May 28 issue.
Continue ReadingRiffs: Music News from Out and About
By Patricia Myers
Summertime, and music events are easy to hear; notes are wafting, and the sounds are clear; there’s lots of places with jazz, and everyone can find them at MusicSceneAZ
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