I transcribed Charlie Parker’s solo on Crazeology
This was my first complete transcription in SoundSlice (here is the link), which takes some practice to use but is a super cool platform. I had wasted a lot of time trying to transcribe with SoundSlice on mobile, which I found to be buggy. Once I went to the desktop it was a million times...
RIP Chick Corea
Digging into the memory banks, I realized I saw Chick Corea live when I played the Jacksonville Jazz Festival with Pacific Mambo Orchestra in 2017.
Financial Relief for Musicians Affected by Coronavirus
I received this information from wonderful Oakland blues and soul singer Terrie Odabi. Here are resources that can provide financial relief for musicians whose gigs are being cancelled due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19): Musicians Foundation Helps professional musicians who have worked five or more years in the U.S. by providing emergency financial assistance in meeting...
Boca Mundial feat. Alexa Morales in Walnut Creek on 04/21/18
BOCA MUNDIAL, a world jazz band led by Grammy-winning multilingual vocalist Alexa Weber Morales, returns to the Impulse Room! The septet will perform a delicious variety of international musical flavors for listening and light dancing at Walnut Creek’s newest jazz venue. BOCA MUNDIAL includes pianist and composer Anne Sajdera, drummer and bandleader (with the Afro Cuban...
BOCA MUNDIAL starring Alexa Morales plays 2 shows at the Napa Blue Note on Jan. 17, 2018
PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS! ALEXA WEBER MORALES & BOCA MUNDIAL LIVE AT BLUE NOTE NAPA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17th – TWO SHOWS – 730pm & 9:30pm 1030 MAIN STREET, NAPA, CA 94559 ——– TICKETS: $10 BAR AREA / $15 TABLE SEATING / $25 BOOTH SEATING Click here to Purchase Tickets Online ——– Blue...
To all the cats I’ve loved before: A Thanksgiving poem for musicians
I am thankful for all the music, art, writing, dance, creatures, kids, family, friends, adventure and nature in my life. To paraphrase Willie Nelson: To all the cats of every age Who’ve played with me on this great stage I’m glad you came along I dedicate this song To all the cats of every...
Our SFJAZZ 5/18 8 pm show is sold out! Tickets still available for 9:30 pm!
A tribute to Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross’s landmark 1960 Columbia album, The Hottest New Group in Jazz, is performed by singers Alexa Weber Morales, Juliet Green, and Bryan Dyer. The show at SFJAZZ on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 8 pm is sold out, but you can still get tickets for 9:30 pm! Please come out...
Alexa Morales and BOCA MUNDIAL @ Fenix on Valentine’s Day!
Lovers’ Trip to Paradise: Valentine’s Day Prix Fixe Dinner & live music with BOCA MUNDIAL Perfect for the diverse Bay Area, BOCA MUNDIAL starring Alexa Morales adds a touch of the “flamboyantly multilingual” (San Jose Mercury News) to every event. Alexa Morales is an Oakland Jazz and Salsa singer-songwriter, fluent in a few languages thanks to her...
Morales, Dyer & Green: Tribute to Lambert, Hendricks & Ross @ Armando’s in Martinez 5/6/16
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE alexajazz.com Spectacular vocalese make Morales, Dyer & Green: A Tribute to Lambert, Hendricks & Ross a must-see They were dubbed the “hottest new group in jazz”, but a fatal car crash and a pesky heroin addiction cut short their time together. Even so, the world has never forgotten the magic of Lambert, Hendricks...
![[From the Archives] Q&A with Pete Douglas: 45 Years Booking Jazz at the Beach House](https://www.alexawebermorales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PeteDouglas.jpg "[From the Archives] Q&A with Pete Douglas: 45 Years Booking Jazz at the Beach House")
[From the Archives] Q&A with Pete Douglas: 45 Years Booking Jazz at the Beach House
Originally posted 22nd January 2009 by Alexa Weber Morales. Reprinted in JazzWest. Pete died July 2014. Pacific Mambo Orchestra will play Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society on May 29. In 2007, I had the fortune of playing the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco on mostly misty...
Get this beautiful jazz history infographic for Jazz Appreciation Month!
Happy Jazz Appreciation Month! Jazz is America’s classical music, a mixture of Afro-Cuban and African rhythms, blues, ragtime, spirituals and European polyphony and instrumentation, springing up from the former French port city of New Orleans. If you have trouble remembering when the Kansas City blues were big or who was part of the West Coast Cool Jazz scene,...
