Busking across America with the USA Rail Pass: Life can change in an instant
I have a USA Rail Pass and I’m taking my piano and amp around the country! It’s not about making money, though that’s nice. It’s really about freedom. Giving the gift of music to the people. And making music on my terms. No complications, no band to manage, no tickets to sell, no shitty sound...
The difference between streaming and live performance
The first time I finally had my sound interface properly connected to OBS (One Broadcasting System, open source software for live streaming to any platform) and played a show, there was a moment in the middle of it where I felt a surge, a flash, that delicious sense of improvisatory daring that you get when...
Tonight! Bay Area Jazz Greats Kim Nalley and Tammy Hall in Concert
San Jose Jazz is putting on a series of free streaming concerts, and this one will be great! My personal connection to San Francisco Bay Area jazz and blues vocalist Kim Nalley is through Jazz at Pearls, a San Francisco venue she owned and operated for a number of years. I gained many international fans...
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, Taste & Listen Musical Pop Up Dinner in Truckee, CA
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, Taste & Listen Musical Pop Up Dinner benefiting the nonprofit of Trails & Vistas Stella is an interactive culinary dining affair. This is dinner as it should be. A repast with soul, heart, music, and nourishment. Stella highlights a focused Latin inspired menu shaped by creative imagination that combines familiarity with...
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...
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....
Tonight! Award-winning BERKELEY HIGH JAZZ ENSEMBLE opens for PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA
The award winning BERKELEY HIGH JAZZ ENSEMBLE warms up the stage for Grammy Award Winning special guests PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BENEFIT CONCERT & LATIN DANCE PARTY FRI JUNE 3, 2016 DOORS 7PM / SHOW 8PM The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave Downtown Berkeley BART access Doors open – 7:00 pm...
