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Frank Sinatra won his third album of the year trophy in 1967 for A Man and His Music, a double album consisting of re-recordings of songs the singer had made famous over the years. Instead of using the original recordings, which he recorded for his previous labels, RCA, Columbia and Capitol, Sinatra used re-recorded versions that were culled from the previous albums he had recorded for his own label, Reprise Records. In addition, he re-recorded three songs specifically for the project: "I'll Never Smile Again," "Come Fly With Me" and "Love and Marriage." Another legendary singer, Nat King Co...

CCJA Sundays presents an interview with drummer and composer Antonio Sanchez. Antonio Sanchez is a 5-time Grammy Award winner. His many accomplishments include composing the score for the Academy award winning film Birdman, for which Sanchez also received a Grammy award. Sanchez has performed with a number of notable musicians including Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, and Chick Corea. This interview will focus mainly on Sanchez’s approach to storytelling in music and is open to the public. Check it out: Passcode: ccja Interviews are curated by Conservatory for the Jazz Arts faculty and sta...

James Taylor   September Grass Whenever You're Ready Caroline I See You   Don't Let Me Be Lonesome Tonight Benjamin Sailing to Philadelphia There's a comfortable sense of the familiar to James Taylor's first collection of new songs since 1997's Grammy winner Hourglass; such is the curse of being a decades-spanning cultural icon. But, as on his best work, t...   more »here's also an almost stealthy sense of musical restlessness that seeps into Taylor's songs here, as he colors some with deft jazz and international influences. The reunion with producer Russ Titelman (they last co...

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...