ON the Beat | Student Jazz Body Politics, Eyeing the Season to Come
UCSB Jazz Ensemble presents an impressive finale concert, and the coming classical season lays bare its prospects.
Author: Josef Woodard
Review | Old Soul in the Middle Zone
Natalie Merchant’s four-decade journey in music continues boldly, as heard at the Bowl.
ON the Beat | In and On the Red Piano, and Out On the Town
Recent live music on the town included accordion-fitted Zach Gill and living legend-maker
Judy Collins.
Family Band Bonding, Continued
Acclaimed “progressive roots” group the Tedeschi Trucks Band returns to the Bowl.
Ojai Gets Serious, Musically Speaking
World-famous Ojai Music Festival returns, with pianist Mitsuko Uchida as Music Director of a varied new-meets-old program.
Multi-Mediated Artistic Adventures
UCSB MFA exhibition, “Incandescent,” spans media, installation work and personal-political issues in challenging ways.
Bringing on the Serious Musical Summer
The 77th annual Music Academy Festival kicks off another rich slate of classical summering.
Film Review | Grotesque Saintly Verses
Ethan and Maya Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ pays moving tribute to the life and work of Southern author Flannery O’Connor.
Double-Header on the World Folk and Blues-infused Rock Circuit
Santa Barbara’s music calendar gets serious, and folksy-bluesy as the season ebbs.
Collier Returns, Goes Big and Wide
Precocious British musical force Jacob Collier, in solo mode here last fall, returns in full-bodied, full-band mode at the Arlington.
