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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Gilbert Castellanos jazzed to return to trumpet after groundbreaking dental breakthroughs saved his career [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-CASTELLANOS:SD] SAN DIEGO — Under ordinary circumstances, dentists usually help maintain and save people’s teeth — not their careers. But there was nothing ordinary about the precarious state of trumpet dynamo Gilbert Castellanos’ teeth and jaw bone when he reluctantly agreed to let San Diego dentist Roy Vegter examine him in mid-2018. The acclaimed jazz musician and music educator had spent years forgoing any me...

Under ordinary circumstances, dentists usually help maintain and save people’s teeth — not their careers. But there was nothing ordinary about the precarious state of trumpet dynamo Gilbert Castellanos’ teeth and jaw bone when he reluctantly agreed to let San Diego dentist Roy Vegter examine him in mid-2018. The acclaimed jazz musician and music educator had spent years forgoing any medical check-ups. His hesitance was the result of a botched root canal surgery and — before that — several discomfiting appointments with neurosurgeons. For the record: 9:16 AM, Jan. 17, 2021The incor...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-PASQUA:SD] When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand. Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in...

Print When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand. Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles. “I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it was for and was asked to record about 30 minutes of music, piano musings, nothing too specific. Luckil...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Kingston West Police Division has named Preston Evan, otherwise cal...