When Victor Baker, a self-described lifelong jazz guitar nut, isn’t building an instrument, he is writing, preparing, and playing his original music with his group. His debut album, As the...
A San Diego mainstay for more than 45 years, Ira B. Liss and his Big Band Jazz Machine’s seventh album is definitely their most ambitious, unquestionably...
Garrison Bailey may be the most under-the-radar singer you’ve never heard of. Her album, Into the Mirror I Sing, Chapter 1, features her soulful voice in...
Taylor Harvey has been knocking around the local music scene since the 1990s but got a deservedly elevated profile when the Farmers had him open some...
Local guitarist Peter Sprague earned most his reputation playing jazz at a world-class level. But his musical interests are far ranging; recent recordings have found him...
One of the mainstays of folk music—at least the working-class school pioneered by Woody Guthrie—is singing the stories of folks on the edge of polite society,...
If Marcelo Radulovich is simply too mainstream for your musical tastes, if former UCSD professor Jason Robinson’s avant-garde jazz seems too safe, if your quest for...
The ten tracks on A Buffalo Trace run just shy of 35 minutes, but are so full of thoughtful, poignant self-reflection and philosophy, the album plays...
How has it possible that it’s been 20 years since Gayle Skidmore released her debut EP? In the intervening years, Skidmore has specialized in EPs and...
