Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Southern California Fires Hit the Jazz Community
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
Drummer Sherrie Maricle will lead her Diva Jazz Orchestra on a european tour.
Tour dates for the all-female ensemble include:
April 30 and May 1: Swinging Hanover, Hanover, Germany
May 3 and 4: Lionel Hampton Jazz Room, Le Meridien, Paris
May 9: Watchung Arts Center, N.J.
May 16: Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
May 17: Deerhead Inn, Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
Maricle has two CDs due out this spring. What The World Needs Now features the Diva Jazz Orchestra with vocalist Carmen Bradford. The other is from Five Play, Maricle’s female quintet. It will be released by Arbors. The recording features Maricle on drums, Tomoko Ohno on piano, Noriko Ueda on bass, Jami Dauber on trumpet, flugelhorn and cornet, and Janelle Reichman on tenor sax/clarinet.
More info: divajazz.com
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
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The Old Country: More From The Deer Head Inn arrives 30 years after ECM issued the Keith Jarret Trio live album At The Deer Head Inn.
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As Ted Nash, left, departs the alto saxophone chair for LCJO, Alexa Tarantino steps in as the band’s first female full-time member.
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Larry Appelbaum with Wayne Shorter in 2012.
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Larry Appelbaum, a distinguished audio engineer, jazz journalist, historian and broadcaster, died Feb. 21, 2025, in…
