Dena DeRose – a Lovely Way to Spend a Sunday July 27, 2018 By Roger Crane, the Song Scout On a recent Sunday afternoon, three sparkling ingredients were evident in the warm environs of Santa Barbara’s SoHo jazz club. The first was the supremely talented pianist-singer Dena DeRose. The second was her fellow musicians, [...]
Good Vibes Felt All Around During SOhO Jazz Society Event on June 3rd Mid set, we got an education: “The instrument I play is called The Vibraphone… Not a marimba or a xylophone, but “The Vibraphone!” A perky Lolly Allen led her quintet which started the Sunday afternoon off on an upbeat high note [...]
What a fun way to celebrate Mothers Day! Funny man and great musician, Jeff Elliott, was at his best to help us all mark the holiday with some very cool jazz. It was the brainstorm of Jazz Society President, Peter Clark who has had a long association with Jeff and put together a CD [...]
April, Jazz Appreciation Month, was celebrated royally in Santa Barbara this year. Starting off with a bang, the fabulous SBJS 2017 Scholarship Award Winner, Dos Pueblos High School Jazz Band, played a couple of dazzling tunes: Guy Noirs’s Brother featuring Tommy Mooy on trombone and Marco Alcaino on alto sax and Junkwagon with Henry [...]
[slickr-flickr search="sets" set="72157693657817555" items=“36” type="gallery"] The Journey is Just as Exciting as The Destination When Emmet Cohen’s trio played last Sunday for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society event at SOhO, their fresh takes on classic standards kept everyone on their toes – not only the enthusiastic audience but even the stellar musicians looked amused [...]
By Natalie Wilson Well, we did it again…another amazing jazz concert presented by the Santa Barbara Jazz Society! We have had nothing but the very best jazz events these past few years and this one was no exception. Janis Mann is one of a very few true jazz singers around today. Her marvelous voice and sense [...]
The L.A.6 In keeping with the oncoming holiday, Halloween, SB Jazz Society members and friends were awarded plenty of musical treats on a fine late October afternoon. The L.A.6, a great band composed of some of the finest musicians LA has to offer, played their collective hearts out. A great opener, the Eternal Triangle, [...]
