The Jazzcat

Click Picture to hear an interview with Greg Osby and LeRoy Downs and at the end, LeRoy gets interviewed as well!

“Live with the Jazzcat“

Hello all, this is LeRoy Downs and each week I will broadcast a live 15 minute segment every Tuesday at 5:15 PM PST on KRMLradio.com and 1410 AM KRML radio in beautiful Carmel California.

Gary

has one hour show Monday thru Friday called

“For Locals Only“.

On each Tuesday of the month @ 5:15 for about 15 to 20 minutes, Gary will turn it over to me for a segment of

“Live with The Jazzcat“

Each week there will be an interview of someone special and wonderful in this beautiful art form we call jazz.

I will see you there!

     
  LeRoy Downs
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LeRoy Downs will be live on the air

 with creative saxophone talent,

Greg Osby

Coming Tuesday April 18, 2006 at 5:15 Pm PST on

KRMLradio.com

Click picture to listen live online!

“Monterey Bay's Jazz and Blues station in Carmel California”

 Don't miss chance to hear from the youth in todays music who will be puttin' it down for a long time to come,

Greg Osby

live on KRMLradio.com or on

1410AM KRML radio in Carmel California

Click on picture above for interview

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Additional Photos

Straight outta Brooklyn to Los Angeles, my main man Eric Person set out

on a West Coast that proved to be quite a musically successful venture. His

intent was to make his journey part vacation, part business and 100% jazz

music, Meta-Fourically speaking!

He came down to the LAX Westin and sat in with Larry Nash,

visited the Crown Plaza for Rebecca Paris, stopped by LACMA for John Heard,

checked out an up an coming jazz club downtown called “Harlem Place” that, when

finished, is going to be one of the most beautiful places to see jazz in the

world and dropped into Café Metropol to have a quick visit with Rocco Somazzi.

Quite the busy cat, but when it came to playing his first gig of the tour, it

was all about the business of the alto and the soprano.

Eric lives in the East but, he teamed up with some brothers

from the West for this trip. On piano, one of our outstanding players who just

produced his very first album, Mr. John Rangel. On bass, another one of the

cats from around the way who has played with Dwight Trible, Hydeus Kiatta and a

number of other folks around town, Mr. Kevin Oneil. And on drums, a young man

working on many different projects around town and certainly becoming one of

the most sought after percussion players in this town, Tony Austin.

Eric writes all of his own music and his thoughts and

concepts are derived directly from his travels and life’s experiences from

growing up in St. Louis to making the pilgrimage

to the mecca of the music, New York

citay! He is here playing with these cats for the first time and although his

concepts are challenging, the music rises to the occasion.

 

The audience here at Santa Monica College

is full of music students. Not the ones that play instruments but, those taking

music appreciation classes and some hearing jazz for the first time. Keith

Fiddmont, Leslie Drayton and Kevin Oneil, are all players but, are also

instructors here at Santa Monica

College. Many of their

students are in the audience and have been learning the foundation of the music

through class and now getting to experience the music first hand. You can tell

that these young minds are eager to learn, hear, feel, grasp, incorporate and

become apart of the music as they listen with open ears.

 

“Majestic Taurian Majesty” is a piece that was written and

dedicated to Charles Mingus. A sweet mid-tempo ballad with rich tones and

colorful bass characteristics revealing the softer side of the bull. The music

silences to just the sound of the bass and then to just the alto as if old wise

ones are telling their stories to a captivating audience with a thurst for

knowledge. The individual voices of the instruments on their own are powerful, spiritual,

and just a beaming light of brilliance as the sole source of the sound.

  

The auditorium is big enough to have a sizable audience yet

intimate enough for the music to collectively penetrate the individual souls as

one pure cognitive source of musical intelligence. It’s EP not ET and a phone

call home about the standard, meditative, Trane-like, therapeutic qualities  of “Stella by Starlight” would not be a bad

idea. Familiar phrases with so much different information that you look forward

to hearing how it will be expressed the next time it is performed. On “It’s

Time Again” the relevance to New

Orleans is prevalent and if you just close you eyes,

you can feel the concepts sink into your body. Over off to the side, Eric

smiles as the cats start digging in enhancing the Beauty of “Song #6”. In

church they call it tongues, but live on stage, it is the natural birth of

musical creation, no epidural. Integrity in simplicity cannot always be

achieved but, is so satisfying when it is. The music is open, free and swingin’

with Extra Pressure!

LeRoy Downs

 

Click Picture to hear an interview with Gary Bartz and LeRoy Downs

“Live with the Jazzcat“

Hello all, this is LeRoy Downs and each week I will broadcast a live 15 minute segment every Tuesday at 5:15 PM PST on KRMLradio.com and 1410 AM KRML radio in beautiful Carmel California.

Gary Hamada ,who is a director at KRML Jazz and Blues station, has taken me on to do a weekly segment that I am sure your are going to enjoy! He has one hour show Monday thru Friday called

“For Locals Only“.

On each Tuesday of the month @ 5:15 for about 15 to 20 minutes, Gary will turn it over to me for a segment of

“Live with The Jazzcat“

Each week there will be an interview of someone special and wonderful in this beautiful art form we call jazz.

I will see you there!

     
  LeRoy Downs
Click here for all archived Interviews