Playboy Jazz Festival Gets Fans in the Spirit with Free Community Concert

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Hollywood Bowl, Jazz, Playboy Jazz Festival

Playboy Jazz Festival presents free community concert Sunday, June 6 in Woodland Hills

Playboy Jazz Festival 2010

For Southern California jazz fans, there’s no better way to break through Los Angeles’ annual June gloom than “Playboy Jazz in Warner Park,” which returns to the Lou Bredlow Pavilion in Warner Center Park (located at 5800 Topanga Canyon Boulevard) on Sunday, June 6th from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The free concert, sponsored by the Playboy Jazz Festival as part of their annual community event series held in conjunction with the upcoming Playboy Jazz Festival, Saturday and Sunday, June 12th and 13th, at the Hollywood Bowl, is also part of the Valley Cultural Center’s “Concerts on the Green” series.

Pablo Aslan | Tango Grill

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Bassist, Jazz, Pablo Aslan

Pablo Aslan - Tango Grill

Pablo Aslan | Tango Grill – [Zoho Music, 2010]

To the unsuspecting ear, Pablo Aslan may sometimes appear to be just a fabulous bassist, with sublime technique and a virtuoso of limitless possibility. But dig a little deeper, especially into this album, Tango Grill and the impossible will seem to appear. Aslan takes the relatively rigid structure of the written music and dance form, the Tango, into a stratospheric space where no one else has ever dared to venture. At least this is not since Astor Piazzolla reinvented the form as Nuevo Tango, over 60 years ago. To be precise, Aslan is taking the Tango, a form of music that is played as written into the realm of the idiom of Jazz, a music that is as elastic as an improviser can be. This is where Tango Grill purports to fit in: like playing tocar a la parrilla, without written arrangements, on the grill.

Hector Martignon | Refugee

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Hector Martignon, Jazz, Piano

Hector Martignon - Refugee

Hector Martignon -|- Refugee – [Zoho Music, 2007]

On May 8th, 2007, ZOHO records will release the long awaited new CD by Hector Martignon, REFUGEE you’ll have the opportunity to enjoy four of the world’s best bassists ( Eddie Gomez, Richard Bona, John Benitez and Matthew Garrison) plus four of the best drummers (Jeff “Tain” Watts, Willard Dyson, Horacio “Negro” Hernandez and Dafnis Prieto) along with great invited guests (Kenny Barron, Mark Whitfield, Sammy Figueroa, Edgardo Miranda, Roberto Quintero and others) all in this, FOREIGN AFFAIR’S latest collection of original compositions and arrangements of beautiful standards.