WITH A SONG: Any jazz year in Santa Barbara that includes a visit from the great (the greatest?) jazz musician Sonny Rollins is automatically a very good year, indeed. Rollins’s return to Campbell Hall on Sunday is this season’s most anticipated jazz evening. Added elements of meaning are attached to this concert, given his life of late.
DREAD HEAD: The average Radiohead fan might have guessed that a run-in between the famed progressive rock act and any other genre would result in a sloppy sonic mess. They’d be wrong, however. The Easy Star All-Stars have earned praise from reggae fans and Radiohead nuts alike for their take on OK Computer, the aptly titled Radiodread. A follow-up to 2003’s The Dub Side of the Moon, which daringly shined the light of Pink Floyd through a reggae prism,…
Tenor saxophone legend Sonny Rollins will play Campbell Hall on Sunday, October 22. His latest album, and his first studio recording in five years, Sonny, Please, is available now as a digital download on his Web site, sonnyrollins.com, and is forthcoming with Universal on iTunes and as a traditional CD.
Steve Earle carries on an American tradition that’s at least as old as Woody Guthrie, and he does so with the strength, conviction, and humanity of a true American hero.
A little before 1 a.m. Saturday night, you could feel the entire dance floor at SOhO bouncing up and down. A libation-soaked and ganja-friendly crowd moved in unison to the skank-heavy rhythms of Don Carlos and his band, who had the wooden floorboards bending.
Life is meant to be a journey, but Kevin Welch takes this notion to its extreme. He has traveled the honky-tonk circuit in a van named Phyllis. He created his own record label after having worked with numerous major labels.
Pick up a copy of She Wants Revenge’s debut album and you will immediately notice the cover artwork. Though there’s no picture of the band, there is a shot of a young woman dressed only in her underwear.
The Museum of Art will celebrate Dia de los Muertos this coming Sunday, October 29, with the 17th annual Free Family Celebration.
This Friday, October 20, is last call for the fourth annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival’s submission deadline.
Every Santa Barbara theatergoer knows the Garvin Theatre’s steeply raked stage and the quality productions that tread its boards each season, but fewer realize the S.B. City College Theatre Group is the longest-running theater company in town.
