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2024 Rear View – This Photographer’s Year in Music

From the Boss to The Stones, to getting my Third Mind completely blown, 2024 for this photographer, was, if not a feast of a year, then at least one helluva satisfying meal. Whereas most years I’ll look back and find a potent theme, a common thread of deeper meaning, this year has been a happy […]

Jim Brock Appointed to the Board of the Just Jazz Foundation

November 27, 2024 I take great pride in announcing my appointment to the Just Jazz Foundation Board of Directors. The work of the foundation has been instrumental in cultivating and supporting the rich history of jazz in Los Angeles and beyond. A cultural and sonic tapestry which, like the music itself, is a fearless leap […]

Oteil Burbridge & Friends at The Bellwether

September 12, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews.com. Oteil Burbridge has always had a joyful stage presence. A barefoot warrior with an ebullient smile tethered to those bubbling six strings. The ground breaking, consciousness lifting, mind splitting Dead & Co. Sphere residency is done. The face paint is off, and the bassist is on […]

A Photo Dive Into Newport Jazz at 70

August 2-4, 2024 The Newport Jazz festival is truly the granddaddy of them all as it celebrated its 70th year. It is steeped in the tradition of giants while holding the ears from Gen Alpha on up like no other jazz festival I’ve experienced. The opportunity to shoot the Newport Folk Festival the weekend before […]

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THROUGH THE LENS: Newport Folk Festival 2024

  July 26-28, 2024 Well, Newport Folk hit its Medicare age a little before me, but NFF 65 has all the vigor of its youth. Songs are still sung as resistance, but they may take the shape of Killer Mike and De La Soul, the Grateful Drag of Bertha or Billy Bragg and his Woody […]

Jim Brock Photography Featured at the 2024 Jazz Village Experience

June 15-16, 2024 Before the Father’s Day weekend crowd filled in for Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival (curated by Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington and produced by the L.A. Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl), jazz lovers could step into the second annual Jazz Village Experience in the shaded and spacious Kagan Patio. The Jazz Village Experience […]

Bruce Springsteen’s Rousing 3 1/2 Hour Show Shakes the KIA Forum

  April 4, 2024 This post also appears in MusicFestNews.com Barely a third of the way into his 32-song, nearly three-and-a-half hour performance at the KIA Forum, Bruce Springsteen attempted to unfurl a rather unusual song request. The song, “Jole Blon” (French for “pretty blond”) goes back almost a century, and the Boss has never […]