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Castellanos, White & Thorsen at the Westgate Hotel
Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos continued his Friday-night-at-the-Westgate Hotel series, Some Of My Friends Are Piano Players, last night with local piano phenomenon Joshua White and bass stalwart Rob Thorsen in front of another standing-room-only crowd that cheered on two sets of …
Mark Dresser, Joshua White: alone, & together
The excitement I feel at being able to report that bassist Mark Dresser will perform three times in seven days in San Diego is only topped by the reality that two of those performances will be as a sideman in …
Pinback: Information (and bass) Retrieved
Last Tuesday, Pinback dropped their first album in five years, titled Information Retrieved, via Temporary Residence Ltd. Stream opening track "Proceed to Memory": The music video for "Sherman," directed by Matt Hoyt, reinvents a 1962 cult Soviet film called Planeta …
Philippe Manoury, Miller Puckette & Juliana Snapper @ Space4Art
Bravo to Bonnie Wright! The fearless promoter of cutting-edge music scored again last night with her presentation of composer Philippe Manoury's works performed by soprano Juliana Snapper and electronics pioneer Miller Puckette in a concert that succeeded beyond expectations. Manoury's …
42 years ago today: Pink Floyd's 1st San Diego concert
42 years ago today -- 10/18/70 -- Pink Floyd performed in San Diego for the first time at the Intercollegiate Baseball Facility (a.k.a. the Polo Field) at UCSD. Touring behind their Atom Heart Mother album, they had played the previous …
Harley-Davidson's Patriotic Parking Lot Party
The parking lot of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership hosted two local rock bands on the evening of Saturday, October 13. As a fund-raiser for the Wounded Warrior Foundation, a $10 donation was suggested at the door. New York Mike, the …
National Fingerstyle Guitar Champ Chris Proctor: Oct. 24, @ McCrea Music
Guitar virtuoso Chris Proctor winner of the National Fingerstyle Championship in 1982, comes to town next week on Oct. 24, for a Dizzy's production held at McCrea Music Company, 8361 Allison Ave in La Mesa. Is this a solo gig, …
Live music at old school Comic Fest, Oct. 19 - 21 @ Town and Country Resort
Comic Fest, running October 19 through 21, is a new convention organized by several of the original promoters behind the early San Diego Comic-Cons: Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, and Bob Sourk. “This year is the 40th anniversary of the first …
Pak resigns: Orchestra Nova
In a press release this morning, Orchestra Nova has announced that conductor Jung Ho Pak has resigned. Pak’s resignation comes just a few days before the orchestra’s opening concert of the season. Orchestra Nova violaist Linda Piatt still hopes the …
Image versus substance
I want to explore a topic that is surging to the forefront of classical music. We had a solid representation of this topic in the first two SDSO concerts. The first concert weekend was sold out while the second concert …
Sketchy Black Dog rocks The Back Room @ 98 Bottles
Photo by TOM HARTEN Born in Russia, now living in NYC, Misha Piatigorsky is a piano virtuoso with an original concept: melding a jazz piano trio with a string-quartet, playing music that reflects his geographic roots with large doses of …
Thousand-handed god of the piano: Garrick Ohlsson
What happened? In just one week, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra went from sold out to about half full. To add insult to injury, this concert was better than last weekend's. This concert had more variety, this concert had enlightenment, …
Zlatkovich soars at Dizzy's grand opening
Mikan Zlatkovich photo by TOM HARTEN Mikan Zlatkovich brought an all-star sextet to inaugurate the grand opening of the new Dizzy's, in the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski, in Pacific Beach last night to a packed-house. The new venue …
Scott West lands music in animated Cowboys & Aliens film
"The 'Cowboys and Aliens' song that I wrote with San Diego musician Justin Werner is going to be the theme song for the upcoming Platinum Studios Cowboys and Aliens animated motion picture," Scott West tells the Reader. The song “Cowboys …
Castellanos, Wofford & Price: dazzling at the Westgate
Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos held the second show of his every-Friday-until-New Years concert series, Some of my friends are piano players last night at the Westgate Hotel--this time featuring jazz piano hero Mike Wofford and LA bass monster Hamilton Price in …