The Best Night of Jazz in Los Angeles on Saturday June 30

Remember back in the day when you could go to an ultra-cool dinner club, get a martini and a steak and hear some world-class jazz with your date?  Well, those days are back on Saturday June 30 when I bring my Jazz Quartet to Vibrato for a night of swinging jazz

Next Saturday June 30! I'm back at Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill Jazz in Los Angeles with Alex Acuña, Pat Kelley and David Hughes. Treat yourself to a night a cool jazz, great food and drink. NO COVER for the 6:30 dinner set. Late shows at 9:00 and 10:15 pM have a $20 cover, $25 minimum. See you there! RSVP at 310-474-9400 or vibratogrilljazz.com/reservations

We will be palying lots of tunes from the new STRAIGHT AHEAD album, as well as some new arrangements of songs from West Side Story

Bringing Jazz Back to Life on This Thursday

Tower Records closed in 2007, and their assets were sold to a music distribution company that wanted better rankings on Amazon.

The brand stood for "deep catalogue, deep expertise" but digital killed the experience.

Back then jazz album sales were about 3% of the total music sales in America. In 2017 jazz album sales (including downloads) were 1.5% of the total music sales in America. I love Spoitfy as a consumer, but it is killing the jazz music experience, making it just one more commodity.

How do we turn this around? By experiencing jazz live in the clubs where it all began. I hope you can join me, Lyman Medeiros and Alex Neciosup Acuna as we bring it back to where it all began at Catalina Jazz Club this Thursday!