Before we kick off into this evening’s festivities I forgot to tell you about the Sauce Boss and his set last night on the Jazz Street stage. Well, he was on fire and I’m not just talking about his kitchen shtick where he’s rockin’ while a big pot of gumbo is cookin’ which he serves […]
Herb Alpert
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Jazz Fest 2015, Day 2: Frank reviews Grace Kelly, Chet Catallo, and Herb Alpert
Before we kick off into this evening’s festivities I forgot to tell you about the Sauce Boss and his set last night on the Jazz Street stage. Well, he was on fire and I’m not just talking about his kitchen shtick where he’s rockin’ while a big pot of gumbo is cookin’ which he serves […]
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Herb Alpert
It’s 9 a.m., Pacific Time when Herb Alpert gave us a jingle-jangle a few weeks ago. He’d been up for hours recording “Whatever pops into my head,” the 80-year-old jazz and pop trumpeter says. “The night before, I woke up and I’m hearing ‘Blue Skies,’ the song Irving Berlin wrote, and all of a sudden […]
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XRIJF adds three more headliners to 2015 festival
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and The Steep Canyon Rangers
