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Breaking Waves at the Inaugural Santa Monica International Jazz Festival
May 8-9, 2026
This post also appears in Just Jazz Magazine.
Los Angeles County is home to 88 individual incorporated cities, and it is having a jazz moment. With the Blue Note coming up on its first full year in Hollywood, and so many other…

2025 Rearview – A Miserable Year With a Brilliant Soundtrack
December 30, 2025
Let’s just kick the elephant out the door and say that 2025 was, to say the least, a very rough year. From the get go, when the lowest of humanity barreled down Bourbon Street killing 14 on New Year's Day, to the Palisades…
