There’s a very special event happening at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. that has been a long time in the making. Some of the most skilled jazz musicians in our community are gathering for an evening of improvisation and live compositional recitation after many months of practice and development. Trumpet player Nicholas Talvola, […]
Nicholas Talvola
Posted inMusic
The Pavilion of Dreams
Thousands of nights have elapsed since I was a little boy, but I still have traces of that era, the intensity of my brain experiencing the sensations of the world for the first time, and meanwhile learning to communicate with itself, my body and spirit in the process. Much of what unfolds in our early […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan. 25
Trumpeter Nicholas Talvola and company return with a redux of their popular appreciation of the music of jazz and world genre bender and multi instrumentalist Yusef Lateef at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 8 p.m. ($15). Tonight’s ensemble includes Gary Lewis on flute and sax, Brian White on trombone, and the lads in RLAD will […]
Posted inMusic
In Heaven Everything is Fine
Every so often in the course of my time manning the nightlife section in this paper, I find myself in the unenviable position of having to note the passing of an artist, whether local or more famous. It’s never a fun thing, but I consider it an essential aspect of the job, as “all hands […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Music Tonight: Friday, July 19
Jazz heroes tend to burn bright and fast like John Coltrane, or bloom and curl out, evolving in stages over many decades like Sonny Rollins. Yusef Lateef was in the latter camp, with a music career that saw him shifting from a tenor sax and flute player in the world of established jazz norms to […]