Multi-reed player Lisa Marie Baratta's second album as a leader, Summertime Jazz, is a collection of standards that sooth the soul like the languid days of summer. The laidback interpretation of these ...

When the news hit that the Jazz Bakery's last shows (at least at its Culver City location) would take place at the end of May, I feared that a bleak summer lay ahead for Angeleno jazz lovers. Even the ...

Bobby Watson isn’t trying to start a brawl with his fellow horn players. He’s just wants to make it clear that when it comes to his approach to the alto saxophone he’s a lover, not a fighter. “The ...