Singing 8pm tonight (1st set only) with Anne Sajdera’s band at Doc’s Lab in San Francisco
Looking forward to playing with pianist/composer Anne Sajdera at a great location for jazz in San Francisco, Doc’s Lab. I’m doing a Joni Mitchell tune, an Anne Sajdera original, a Sting tune in French and a Brazilian gem. Lots of improvising and then I get to sit and listen to the second set. As always,...
Boca Mundial plays Dreamforce! Accenture stage, Tuesday 10/4, 2-3 pm!
My band Boca Mundial plays the Dreamforce Accenture stage this coming Tuesday, October 4 from 2-3 pm! This marks the first time I’ll both attend the conference as press while also playing the massive event, which brings half a million people or more to San Francisco every fall, as a musician! Looking forward to a great hit with Colin...
Free lunchtime concert Friday 8/12 at Oakland Kaiser Building Roof Garden
Come hear the Boca Mundial trio: me with Braulio Barrera (percussion) and Brian Moran (guitar) at noon for a free one-hour show at the roof garden on Oakland’s Kaiser Building at Lake Merritt. Here’s a snippet of us noodling on one of the tunes we’ll do, a jazz standard called It Never Entered My Mind....
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...
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,...
Kurt Elling to present Lifetime Achievement Award to Jon Hendricks
Multi-award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling will present the ASCAP Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award to Jon Hendricks at the 31st annual Bistro Awards on Tuesday, March 8 at 6:30 at Gotham Comedy Club in New York, NY. Elling, who is also performing, has stated, “Jon is undoubtedly the greatest jazz singer alive and an internationally. His recorded scat solos stand up to...
Morales, Dyer & Green: A Tribute to Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, 12/27 at Fenix in San Rafael!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE alexajazz.com Spectacular vocalese, stellar setting make Morales, Dyer and Green: A Tribute to Lambert, Hendricks and Ross a must-see holiday event Oakland, California – Wednesday, December 2, 2015 – 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...
Every Musician Has a Story, Every Horn Player Has a Mouthpiece…
I was trudging up the hill from the country club, past million-dollar mansions, to the green where I was performing my second show with the Reno Jazz Orchestra, led by the affable Chuck Reider. Typically, the guys had left me behind and ridden golf carts back to the stage (because typically, I had disappeared for too...
Lucindy Productions Presents ‘Just Like a Woman’ Feat. Rhonda Benin, Alexa Morales, Tiffany Austin, Lavay Smith, Tammy Hall and more!
On March 7, 2015, Lucindy Productions Presents ‘Just Like a Woman’ Feat. Rhonda Benin, Alexa Morales, Tiffany Austin, Lavay Smith, Pat Wilder, Darlene Coleman, Wanda Diamond, Tammy Hall, Ruth Davies, Ruth Price, Kristen Strom and Tarika Lewis at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. Tickets are $25. Rhonda’s previous ‘Just Like a Woman’ shows have...
Now booking my new live latin band, BOCA MUNDIAL!
BOCA MUNDIAL, the San Francisco Bay Area’s live latin jazz samba salsa bolero band Add a touch of the “flamboyantly multilingual” (San Jose Mercury News) to your next event with BOCA MUNDIAL starring Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Alexa Weber Morales! Every BOCA MUNDIAL live band show mixes a delicious variety of international musical flavors and extras for a memorable...
