CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOS: JON CLEARY & THE ABSOLUTE MONSTER GENTLEMEN, THE TIN MEN AND PAUL SANCHEZ & THE ROLLING ROAD SHOW (LOS ANGELES)
September 14, 2013 The Mint, Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the MusicFull Gallery: Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, The Tin Men and Paul Sanchez & The Rolling Road Show – The Mint, Los Angeles, 9.14.13 Saturday’s NOLA triple threat at The Mint was as
Concert Review + Photos: Robert Randolph presents the Slide Brothers, with the Otis Taylor Band (Los Angeles)
February 23, 2013Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: Robert Randolph presents The Slide Brothers with The Otis Taylor, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 2.23.13 We’re all told to respect our elders, to learn from the generation before and to pass along
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOS: 3 BRAVE SOULS AT THE KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE (CULVER CITY, CA)
February 8, 2013Jazz Bakery (Kirk Douglas Theatre) in Culver City, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: 3 Brave Souls, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, February 8, 2013Friday’s “3 Brave Souls” CD release event at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City is just
Concert Review + Photos: Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40 at The Mint (Los Angeles, CA)
Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40 January 26, 2013The Mint in Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40, The Mint, Los Angeles, 1.26.13 Mahavishnu Orchestra is in the pantheon of jazz fusion pioneers. Black hole density, volcanic in
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOS: DRAGON SMOKE AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Dragon Smoke (New Orleans, LA) December 12, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: Dragon Smoke, The Mint, Los Angeles, 12.12.12 Certain celestial alignments skip decades, if not lifetimes, or at a minimum, involve covering great distanc
FESTIVAL REVIEW + PHOTOS: VOODOO EXPERIENCE 2012 (NEW ORLEANS, LA)
Voodoo ExperienceOctober 26-28th, 2012City Park in New Orleans, LA Full Gallery: Voodoo Experience 2012 As an unabashed Jazzfest vet, I approached my first Voodoo with excitement and a hint of fear. The mix of rap, EDM, and the often indefinable, sprinkled with the best of New Orleans
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: RED BARAAT AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Red Baraat (Brooklyn, NY)September 18th, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Since I last caught up with Red Baraat in February, the self described “Brooklyn dhol’n’brass” by way of a second line, has been to the White House,
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: BOMBINO AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Bombino (Niger)September 18th, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar was born in a nomadic encampment in Niger in 1980. Some 26 years later he was playing alongside Keith Richards and Charlie W