by The Editors on August 21, 2008
Get ready to come out swinging as Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums close out the 2008 TGIF Jazz In the Park season with their August 22, 2008 performance in Calavera Hills Park.
Called “Instant Crowd Favorites” by the San Francisco Blues Festival and “Consummate musicians and entertainers” by New York City’s Lincoln Center, Lucky and Getit really shine before a live audience, bringing an intense energy and sheer personal magnetism to the stage, exercising wit in a continuous battle of the sexes. They’ve earned a reputation as captivating entertainers with “superior musicianship” (Downbeat), engaging audiences at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Greece, the San Francisco Blues Festival, as the house band at the Derby in Hollywood, and hundreds of nightclubs, festivals, and performing arts centers around the world.
Looks like the North County hot rod/roller derby crowd finally has a reason to visit Jazz In The Park. Show starts at 6 PM don’t forget to bring your f-hole tattoos.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on August 12, 2008
Jazz In The Park goes local on August 15 with Vista’s Cuban Salsa masters Luna Llena. This six piece group lays down smooth salsa rhythms with the horns to back it up. And there won’t be any in Calavera Hills Park who don’t feel it.
Luna Llenas stylized salsa music takes us back in time. Luna Llenas intoxicating rhythms invites you to dance, and is equally enjoyed by the more laid back listener or serious salsa dancers. The close knit vocal harmonies, the rhythm pulse of the conga, timbales, and the unique sound of the traditional spanish guitar, is sure to please any occasion.
Those who enjoyed the film The Buena Vista Social Club with love Luna Llena.
[Link: Jazz in The Park]
by The Editors on August 5, 2008
African beats many not often boom through Calavera Hills Park, but Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits will change all that on August 8, from 6 to 8 PM as they bring their own brand of authentic African pop to Carlsbadistan’s Jazz In The Park.
Oliver Mtukudzi is the best-selling artist in his home country of Zimbabwe, Africa. Lovingly called “Tuku” for short, Oliver began recording in the mid-1970s as a member of Wagon Wheels, a band that also featured Thomas Mapfumo. After Wagon Wheels rolled to fame in Southern Africa, Tuku formed Black Spirits, the band that has backed him throughout his career. . . . Tuku has been heavily influenced by chimurenga, the genre pioneered by Mapfumo that is inspired by the hypnotic rhythms of the mbira (thumb piano). However chimurenga is just one of many styles performed by Tuku, as his music also incorporates pop influences, South African mbaqanga, the energetic Zimbabwean pop style JIT, or the traditional kateke drumming of his clan, the Korekore.
Fans of world beat music will find no deeper, more authentic groove this summer.
[Link: Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 29, 2008
Mmmm, dees shore am shweet jazz een doe pox. Get ready for a little Cajun spice this Friday night as Roddie Romero & The Hub City All-Stars heat up Carlsbadistan’s Poinsettia Park with a little Southern Louisiana rhythm and soul.
Roddie’s passionate vocals, pumping accordian and mastery of the slide guitar leads the funkified groove of his talented band, the Hub City All Stars. You will not only experience great, original music at a Hub City All Stars’ concert, but you’ll witness the tightest band from the swamps of Louisiana put on an electrifying show.
That sounds like exactly what we were looking for this Friday night. Do not miss this one ’cause there are only three more this summer.
[Link: Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 25, 2008
The July 25, 2008 Jazz In The Park was cancelled today by the San Diego County Department of Health after a dead bird found in the park tested positive for West Nile Virus. “This is the 122nd bird found with WNV this year in San Diego County. The concert cancellation is purely precautionary. Poinsettia Park remains open to the public.”
“With such short notice of this situation and because the concert occurs at a time when mosquitoes are most prevalent in the park, we felt it was in the best interest of the community to cancel tonight’s concert. This gives the City—and the public—adequate time to take appropriate precautions for the remaining 2008 TGIF concerts,” said Jazz in the Parks Project Manager Peter Gordon.
Bummer. Thanks to all the Carlsbadistan New Tippers who sent this in.
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by The Editors on July 22, 2008
[Editor’s Note: This event has been cancelled due to a dead bird.] Get ready for what will probably be the most hard rocking night of the entire TGIF Jazz In The Park as Tinsley Ellis drowns Poinsettia Park in his own brand of southern fried blues, tonight July 25, 2008.
Tinsley Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. Ellis attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, following in the tradition of Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes. His live shows feature extended fretwork filled with melodic and rhythmic experimentation, in the spirit of jam bands like his friends Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers. Atlanta Magazine declared Ellis “the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell.”
We’re going to guess that means he’s amazing. Show starts at 6 PM at Poinsettia Park and remember to bring earplugs for the kids.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 18, 2008
TGIF Jazz in the Park comes a little closer to home as Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca spice things up with innovative music that “combines Latin and African elements from salso to soukous with an occasional merengue or Afro-Portuguese excursion” at Poinsettia Park on July 18.
This Congo-born artist of Angolan ancestry is the embodiment of the Afro-Latin Diaspora which connects back to Mother Africa via the Cuban clave rhythm. Lemvo is truly multi-cultural and equally at home singing in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Lingala, and Kikongo.
If you’re deja-vuing, don’t worry. Ricardo played TGIF last year and we wrote nearly the same intro for him. And we’re guessing the show is going to be just even better than it was last year, though we’ve no reason to believe that will be true.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 11, 2008
After tonght’s TGIF Jazz In The Park rockin’ blues performance by guitar virtuoso Johnny “V” Vernazza and his band we can all wave good-bye to the Eastern Front and the miles of track homes that surround Stagecoach Park, because this is the last show on the ball field all summer. And it’s going to be a good one.
Johnny V has played guitar since 1963, but it was as a member of the Elvin Bishop Band that he gained the most notoriety. With six albums, endless touring, and the number three hit song in the country (Fooled Around And Fell In Love) Johnny and Elvin basically created the dual lead guitar style that is still a part of the southern rock sound today.
The show runs from 6 to 8 PM at Stagecoach Park. And the dance floor is huge, so don’t forget your dancing shoes.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 11, 2008
For some reason, the words “violin” and “rock” don’t seem to go together.
We know, there’s a great cello part in that Nirvana song and The Killers are taking a violinist on tour this summer, but still. It just doesn’t seem right. Especially when Mark Wood (try to click that link without laughing) looks just like Yngwie Malmsteen.
Nevertheless, Carlsbadistan’s Museum of Making Music is hosting Mark in concert on Saturday July 26, 2008.
Wood’s musical retrospective of the modern electric violin features nearly 50 creations from his early experiments building electric violins. Mark recounts crafting violins as early as age 10. A progressive development of prototypes would eventually become the model for the 7-string Viper violin, a symbol of the modern rock violin revolution.
Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for museum members and $7 for students. For tickets and information, contact (760) 438-5996, ext. 212 or visit www.museumofmakingmusic.org.
by The Editors on July 3, 2008
The Fourth of July is a big, big day in Carlsbadistan and what better way to shut it down than by driving out to the Eastern Front for some red hot and saucy jazz music as Ruby and The Red Hots rock Stagecoach Park at stop number three of the City of Carlsbad’s TGIF Jazz in the Park. 6 – 8 pm.
A crowd favorite for years, Ruby Presnell, “The First Class Sultry Lady of Blues,” has shared the stage with all the greats including Etta James, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, as well as the San Diego Symphony. And now she’s going to share her music with Carlsbadistan, again.
[Link: TGIF Jazz In The Park]
Get ready to come out swinging as Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums close out the 2008 TGIF Jazz In the Park season with their August 22, 2008 performance in Calavera Hills Park.
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