Month: September 2019

Annabel (lee) summons you to enter the world of Goth inspired Jazz. Enchanting vocals and rich textural sounds of the ensemble will send chills down your spine and transport you to another place. In a climate where mainstream music can often sound like a one dimensional cacophony, undeveloped, predictable and repetitive. Sensuous harmonies cut through …

:: The Inspiration Behind the Gothic Jazz of Annabel (lee) in Solitary Spaces Read More »

Photo by: Camille Stemmons Jimetta Rose is yet another dear friend of the extended member of THE NONSEMBLE family. After hearing about her from friends in and around town to seeing her out and about in L.A.’s very busy urban underground, it was one night at one of the earlier iterations of Mark de Clive-Lowe’s …

JIMETTA ROSE :: Where Grows A Beautiful Black Rose… There – She Goes. [A ‘Metta-Fore] Read More »

Soprano sax, vibes, percussion, guitar and bass collide creating a soul that can’t be tamed mirroring a future of musical multiculturalism that transcends our personal boundaries and connects us end to end.   In a hole in the bottom of the earth near the sea sits a little Speakeasy that has played host to some …

MAE.SUN :: Hailey Niswanger’s NeOrganic Multi-Culti Movement. Read More »

Thandi Ntuli’s sophomore album, EXILED, opens with, “The Void (Intro)” a spoken word piece that reminds me of the spiritual jazz Mom and dad listened to around the house. The spoken words themselves allow connection where the line is often blurred or heavily drawn. Thandi was born thousands of miles away in South Africa, into a …

Thandi Ntuli Releases EXILED :: A Portrait of Beauty and Bravery. Read More »

NOW PLAYING :: TO THOSE WHO WALKED BEFORE US Let’s take a stroll, which – for me – started long ago and more recently led me to Samuel Jon Samuelsson through his Big Band, into, Music Is the Weapon and on to Saxophonist and Band-Leader, Christopher Ali Thoren of Gothenburg, Sweden. Clearly, Africa and her …

Christopher Ali Thorén :: Solidarity Quartet / Solidaritet Read More »

First – let me say… We Love L.A. based Bassist and Bandleader, Billy Mohler. Aside from being one of our own, musically [Billy has his hands and foot in virtually every genre of music available… from Pop-Rock to Country and beyond] Billy is also an incredibly outgoing, hard-working and open-minded Father, Family Man and… and …

HEAR HERE :: BILLY MOHLER IN/ON “FOCUS”! Read More »

While we quite often make our way out to two or three gigs a week, it isn’t too often that we hit the ‘same’ Artists’ show(s) twice in a week. When JIMMY CHAMBERLIN COMPLEX tickets went on sale for their show at RESIDENT in DTLA a ways back, we instantly snapped up tickets. We’d been listening …

::The Alternative Jazz of the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex Read More »

Carlos Nino and Friends opened the night with an organic percussion set that bathed the senses in sound. So lush and layered with texture and movement that giving in and trusting the process was rewarded by transcendence of the soul. I closed my eyes and felt the jungle, the forest, the sea with melodies so …

Carlos Nino :: The Nonconventional Comes to The World Stage. Read More »

A Letter from The Editor: A group of us made it out to see our friend – Saxophonist Randal Fisher – for his debut as a leader at the world-famous WORLD STAGE in Los Angeles’ historic Leimert Park Village. While I can assure that ALL of us there that night were blown away by Randal, …

Randal Fisher Ensemble :: An Explosive Debut on the World Stage in Leimert Park Read More »

Live at The Blue Whale Little Tokyo – DTLA :: It should come as no surprise that a few of us from THE NONSEMBLE have been to so many of Mark de Clive-Lowe’s live shows. We have been checking him out since we helped present / promote his first trip back in . . . …

SCENE [AS] SEEN :: MARK de CLIVE-LOWE HERITAGE WITH STRINGS – FRI.13.SEP.19 Read More »