It is hit or miss with Benjie Porecki’s latest CD, "The Rest of My Life." Porecki clearly is a talented keyboardist who leaps between organ and piano on this outing. While …
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Richard Davis’ curiously titled "Homage to Diversity" is a beautiful and melodious sequence of tunes that are rooted in the blues, bebop, gospel, classical and swing. The d…
In the 1960s, San Francisco’s KQED produced an innovative thirty-minute jazz program hosted by local music critic, Ralph J. Gleason. The "Jazz Casual" shows featured a vari…
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In the 1960s, San Francisco Chronicle music critic, Ralph J. Gleason, hosted a thirty minute program entitled "Jazz Casual" for National Educational Television (the precurs…
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In a way free jazz can be imagined as the study of chaos and nonlinear mathematics. It can be visualized as a rising column of smoke breaking into wild swirls or a dripping…
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