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Last month I was invited to help document the Shotgun Wedding Quintet’s CD Release in San Francisco on July 20, 2007. The show featured the quintet plus their full string section kickin’ an awesome blend of hip hop, jazz, and symphonic fusion ...

I’m finally getting around to posting this excellent recording I made nearly a month ago of the Mitch Marcus Quintet’s first set at this year’s Fillmore Street Jazz Festival on June 30, 2007. The band was celebrating the recent release ...

Last month I was invited to help document the Shotgun Wedding Quintet’s CD Release in San Francisco on July 20, 2007. The show featured the quintet plus their full string section kickin’ an awesome blend of hip hop, jazz, and symphonic fusion ...

On Tuesday, June 5th Realistic Orchestra presented it’s Annual Prince Birthday Tribute at Bruno’s. The orchestra was in full effect and guest vocalists like Joe Bagale, Chris McGee and Emily Schmidt ripped it up with the band as the night ...

Tags: Adam Shulman, Adam Theis, Bay Area, BayTaper, Big Band, Brunos, Charlie Gurke, Eric Garland, Erik Jekabson, George Ban Weiss, Jazz, Jazz Mafia, Jazz Orchestra, Jeff Marrs, Joe Cohen, Live Music, Marc Bolin, Marcus Shelby, Mike Olmos, Mike Rinta, ...

I had the recent opportunity to attend the Bay Area Classical Harmonies performance of The Passion According to Saint John [J.S. Bach] at Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco on May 17, 2007. While there, I managed to capture just enough media with ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Ben Goldberg, Intersection for the Arts, Jazz, Jeff Cressman, Live Music, San Francisco, Scott Amendola, Wil Blades  Here’s a 17- audio clip and a few photos from a recent live performance by Scott Amendola, Wil ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Berkeley, Dave Scott, Erik Jekabson, Jazz, Jazz School, Jeff Marrs, Live Music, Marcus Shelby, Mario Guarneri, Mark Inouye, Mike Olmos, Randy Vincent, Trumpet Supergroup  A few weeks back, I was invited to record and ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Berkeley, Dave Scott, Erik Jekabson, Jazz, Jazz School, Jeff Marrs, Live Music, Marcus Shelby, Mario Guarneri, Mark Inouye, Mike Olmos, Randy Vincent, Trumpet Supergroup  A few weeks back, I was invited to record and ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Big Band, Brass, Erik Jekabson, Jazz, Jazz Orchestra, Jeff Marrs, Live Music, Metro Opera, Mike Abraham, Mike Olmos, Mitch Marcus, Oakland, Sylvain Carton  Next up is an outstanding performance from the Mitch Marcus Quintet ...

Tags: 12 Galaxies, Adam Theis, BayTaper, Funk, Jazz, Joe Cohen, Live Music, San Francisco, Wil Blades, Will Bernard  My Internet’s been down for a couple of weeks, and I’ve queued up a bunch of good shows with this being the first ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Ben Stolorow, Jazz, Kasey Knudsen, Live Music, Micah McClain, Oakland, Quintet, Ravi Abcarian, Terrence Brewer, Yoshis  I first met Terrence Brewer last year at the Fillmore Street Jazz Fest. Since then, I’ve stayed ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Eugene Warren, Jazz, Mike Abraham, Mitch Marcus, revolution cafe, San Francisco, Zach Hash  I was lucky enough to catch the Zach Hash Group playing live at the Revolution Cafe in the Mission. The jazz quartet was headed up ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Bottom of the Hill, Live Music, Mashup, Metal, Rock, San Francisco, The Donnas  Well, if you’re into live music, it’d be kind of hard to make it through NoisePop 2007 without hitting up at least one show from ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Ben Goldberg, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff, Jazz, Live Music, San Francisco, Sheldon Brown, Smith Dobson  I was psyched to receive an invite to record and photograph the Darren Johnston Quintet playing at one of my favorite ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, DArmous Boone, Eighth Street Performance Space, Free, Howard Wiley, Improv Consortium, Improvisation, Jazz, Jazz House, Matthew Goodheart, Oakland, Sameer Gupta  Here’s a new post of an outstanding recording I made of ...

Tags: Annas Jazz Island, Bay Area, BayTaper, Ben Adams, Berkeley, Erik Jekabson, Eugene Warren, Jazz, Live Music, Mitch Marcus, Quintet, Sameer Gupta, vibes  I just made my first visit to Anna’s Jazz Island in Berkeley to make what turned out ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Jazz, John Wiitala, Live Music, Mario Guarneri, Omar Clay, Randy Vincent, San Francisco, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, SFCM  I was recently given a special opportunity to record and photograph the Guarneri Jazz ...

Tags: Bay Area, BayTaper, Brunos, Eric Garland, Erik Jekabson, Jazz, Jeffrey Burr, Kurt Kotheimer, Live Music, Matt Renzi, San Francisco  I managed to catch one last jazz performance before the end of the year, and it made perfect sense that it was ...