Live Music in Laguna Beach
23
Sep
Biava Quartet
Biava Quartet, 2004 Chamber Music Festival Participants, formed in 1998, won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 2003 and will be making its formal New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in May 2004. The Quartet has been awarded numerous honors including top prizes at the young Concert Artist International [...]
22
Sep
Jose Rizo’s Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars
Jose Rizo’s Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars  A special celebration in January 2000 of the tenth anniversary of the “Jazz on the Latin Side” radio program, hosted by Jose Rizo, became the birth of the “Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars.”  The concert [...]
22
Sep
Joey Sellers
Sellers, Joey is a highly regarded composer, arranger, trombonist and educator. Sellers, Director of Jazz Studies at Saddleback College, teaches improvisation, jazz ensembles, composition, and jazz history. An accomplished composer in both jazz and classical idioms, Sellers has written for Doc Severinsen, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, symphony orchestras in Tulsa, Long Beach and [...]
22
Sep
Jamie Shew
Shew, Jamie ¬†Jamie Shew, an accomplished vocalist, composer, and arranger, earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Washington State University and a Master‚Äôs Degree in Vocal Performance and Jazz Studies from Western Michigan University. She has recently finished intensive work recording her debut album, The Answers Are You, featuring her husband and [...]
22
Sep
Shew, Roger, bassist, a native of the Pacific Northwest, holds a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance from Western Michigan University. Roger has shared the stage with jazz artists such as Kenny Werner, The New York Voices, Bob Brookmeyer, Royce Campbell, and Sunny Wilkinson. In 2001, Roger placed third in the jazz division at the [...]
22
Sep
Sandi Shoemake. “Sandi Shoemake has an incredibly pure, bell-like sound with an imaginative and beautiful style of phrasing. She is one of the finest interpreters of ballad material anywhere…” – Zan Stewart, Los Angeles Times. Sandi was a staff vocalist at N.B.C. and did free lance work at other studios. Some of the shows that she sang on weekly [...]
22
Sep
Shoemake, Charlie. “A major voice of jazz vibraphone…”- Scott Yanow, L.A. Jazz Scene. Born in Houston, Texas, Charlie studied piano informally with Jimmy Rowles and played in Los Angeles from 1956-63 with Charles Lloyd, Art Pepper and Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All- Stars, among others. Having played the vibes in high school, Shoemake took up the instrument in [...]
22
Sep
Bijon Watson¬† is a sought-after clinician. Watson has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the “Hour of Power” Orchestra at the Crystal Cathedral and in many musical theatre productions in Los Angeles and throughout California. He is lead trumpet for the critically-acclaimed Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, the Gerald Wilson Jazz Orchestra, the [...]
22
Sep
Lee Zimmer  is a world-class performer who has delighted audiences with his virtuosity and sense of musicality both as a soloist and ensemble player.  Performing and teaching guitar for most of his life, he heads the guitar studies at La Sierra and California Baptist Universities.  Lee is also in charge of the curriculum development at the [...]
21
Sep
Darol Anger & The Republic of Strings. Somewhere beyond or behind all musical borders lies a creative terrain where bluegrass, jazz, classical, pop, and various world musics mingle, played by musicians who care more for inspiration than they do for genre. If that place has a name, it’s surely the Republic of Strings, for no [...]
