Last Wednesday, June 16th, the Farrell Family Jazz at the Athenaeum Series brought us the Bob Sheppard Quartet, a group that comprises some of Los Angeles’s most prominent jazz musicians. First, some housekeeping: The Bob Sheppard Quartet: Bob Sheppard: Multi-reeds Larry Koonse: Guitar Darek Oles: Bass Mark Ferber: Drums Set List: 1st half: A Sheppard [...]
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The Bob Sheppard Quartet – 6/16/10
June 21, 2010
A recap of Donny McCaslin, and a goodbye or two
June 12, 2010
The Donny McCaslin Trio: Johnathan Blake, Drums; Boris Kozlov, Bass; Donny McCaslin, Tenor Saxophone Last Friday’s concert brought the Donny McCaslin Trio to the Athenaeum’s La Jolla Arts Library. The group’s format was akin to that employed by Sonny Rollins in the Aix en Provence live album reviewed on this site, though the lack of [...]
A Recap of the Geoffrey Keezer/Peter Sprague Quartet’s July 23rd Performance
August 2, 2009
The Athenaeum’s “Farrell Family Jazz at the Athenaeum” series concluded last Thursday (July 23rd) with a knockout performance from the Geoffrey Keezer/Peter Sprague quartet. If you’ve read the teaser I published a few weeks ago, you know how excited I was for this concert, and Thursday’s performance proved that my enthusiasm was well-deserved. The group [...]
The Minsarah Trio (July 16, 2009)
July 22, 2009
Last Thursday, I was lucky enough to be able to go to the Minsarah Trio’s July 16th show, the penultimate in the Farrell Family Jazz at the Athenaeum series. For anyone interested in listening to the group further, I’ve re-created the set list from Thursday night. Personnel: Jeff Denson, bass. Ziv Ravitz, drums. Florian Weber, [...]
Acoustic Evenings at the Athenaeum
July 16, 2009
Last night, I went to the final concert in the Athenaeum’s “Acoustic Evenings at the Athenaeum” series, featuring Madera, a group with an interesting, genre-transcending sound; singer-songwriter Jane Lui; and singer-songwriter Jenn Grinels. The experience was really different from any other Athenaeum concert I had been to before; the intimidating atmosphere of the concert halls [...]
A Few Anecdotes and a Preview of What’s to Come
July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 23rd’s concert with the Geoffrey Keezer/Peter Sprague Quartet is, to put it bluntly, going to be awesome. Since the Athenaeum jazz page already goes into detail about the two artists’ impressive careers, I’ll try and keep myself from replicating their summary. Instead, I’m going to tell a couple stories about how I’ve encountered [...]
