The Creative Sanctuary jazz folk are putting on another tribute to the greats at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. This time it’s Duke Ellington and his tight collaborator Billy Strayhorn, author of the inimitable tune “Take the A-Train,” among many other classics. James Zeller, Katie Belknap and the usual suspects will be joined […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 25
The Creative Sanctuary presents the latest in an ongoing series honoring the musical alumni of the rotating, midcentury supergroup the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s star attraction is the recently late Wayne Shorter, whose saxophonic splendor lit up the world in a career that spanned from bebop to hip hop and beyond. Join hosts James Zeller, Ramsey […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, July 24
The Creative Sanctuary’s fine cadre of jazz musicians continues rolling along with their excellent series celebrating the various satellite musicians associated with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s gig at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse is a celebration of tenor sax player Benny Golson, whose brief stint with the Messengers produced the 1958 […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 5
The Creative Sanctuary continues its Jazz is Peace series with an homage to one of my heroes and the father of some of the greatest music this country ever produced, from the Delta womb of all good American sounds, my spiritual home, New Orleans. I’m talking about Satchmo himself, Mr. Louis Armstrong, who would be […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 22
The Creative Sanctuary is putting on another jazz gig at the Arcata Playhouse, the first in a series basking in the glow of the formidable works of Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s program is an homage to Horace Silver, the post-bop pianist and co-bandleader who brought the group to his highest peaks of […]