SAN DIEGO, September 14…..Local music has never sounded so good thanks to a new collaboration between Anthology and KPRI (102.1).
Starting October 9, the 10 p.m. sets on Friday nights will be dedicated to performances by San Diego’s emerging local artists. It’s sure to be the hottest ticket in town.
Can’t make it? Don’t worry! KPRI is broadcasting the shows live.
The first episode of “KPRI Homegrown Friday’s Live At Anthology” will feature Endoxi, Nova and Tori Roze and Anthology co-owner Marsha Berkson believes the collaboration is a sign that the local music scene is alive and thriving.
“Since Anthology opened two years ago, it has become THE place to play for local musicians,” Berkson said. “This allows many great San Diegan musicians to play in a world class club in front of enthusiastic music fans. KPRI has the most eclectic playlist of any commercial radio station in San Diego, and the local bands that play here are sure to reflect that diversity as well.”
It’s truly a sound investment in the community by both parties, especially where sound is concerned according to Homegrown Friday host Cathryn Beeks.
“Anthology has the best sound system in San Diego, if not California, and, as a result, these great local bands will sound great – both in the club and on the radio.”
The first show is October 9, with other shows following on October 23 and 30 as well as November 6 and 27. Then, starting in January, “Homegrown Friday” will be a weekly affair.”
Tickets for the shows will be $10 (including service fee), but fans will be able to upgrade their tickets to VIP seating for a slightly higher ticket price. For more information check out www.anthologysd.com or www.kprifm.com.
Anthology is located at the southern end of Little Italy at 1337 India Street. For more information, go to http://www.anthologysd.com or contact David Moye at 619-858-0322 or david@altstrategies.com. KPRI is locally owned and operated by San Diego based Compass Radio Group. The station’s innovative adult rock format can be found at 102.1 FM and online at www.kprifm.com.
Fresh Vibe Tuesdays at Anthology affords visitors a decent house band fronted by sultry lead singer Rebecca St. Jade, plus discounted menu items from new Executive Chef Eric Bauer. Admission is only $5, and dishes on the ever-changing weekly menu range from a very affordable $2.75 (for five Parmesan-onion cheese puffs offered last week) to three different sensational entrees, each kept at under $15. Also, compare the selected Tuesday wine offerings to the regular wine list, and behold a near 40 percent price reduction on those labels, served either by the glass or bottle. The specials are available from 5:30 to 9 p.m. 1337 India St., 619-595-0300.
Click here for the article in Gay & Lesbian Times.
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Click here to check out the full Fresh Vibe Menu for Tuesday, September 22
By Ron Donoho | San Diego DTown
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 — Wednesday could be designated Howie Day Day in downtown’s Little Italy. The international singer-songwriter will play a free lunchtime concert at Anthology supper club. First come, first acoustically served in the 600-capacity club.
The daytime concert is courtesy of independent radio station KPRI (102.1 FM). “So many of our free shows are in the evenings,” says VP/station manager Bob Burch. “We felt it was time to do a show for the working men and women of San Diego.”
Anthology has hosted other lunchtime concerts, but those have been private events for various select radio station audience members. This is the first one open to the general public, says Anthology owner Marsha Berkson.
“KPRI wants to expand its reach, and extended an open invitation,” said Berkson. “Anyone can come, but we’re excited because it’s very much targeted to the Little Italy neighborhood.”
Doors open at 11 a.m., and Day is scheduled to take the stage at 12:30. Anthology is not normally open for lunch, but will offer a $10 buffet spread. Full bar service will be available.
Acoustic rocker Day (you’ve hummed his 2005 hit “Collide” at some point in your life) plays House of Blues tonight, with Colbie Caillat. Day’s new album “Sound the Alarm” was just released this month.
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By Candice Woo, Foodie News | San Diego CityBeat
A friend who recently tried out Anthology’s new happy-hour menu gave it rave reviews, especially the $4 plate of warm edamame drizzled with white truffle oil and house-smoked salt crystals. Chef Eric Bauer overhauled the jazz club’s happy-hour menu last month, adding items like chicken “lollipops” with apple slaw and a Point Reyes bleu-cheese dip and Coachella Valley medjool date kabobs. Most items are in the $6 to $7 range and drink specials are $6.
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By Steve Siegel | THE MORNING CALL
Chick Corea is a musical omnivore. From avant-garde to bebop, from children’s songs to hard-hitting fusion and frequent forays into the classical, the multiple Grammy Award-wining jazz artist has touched an astonishing number of musical bases.
He’s equally at home acoustic or plugged-in, doing solo gigs or richly arranged collaborations with orchestras. Whether he plays in duos, trios or quartets, his restless creativity and imagination soars.
Following last year’s celebrated reunion tour of his fusion supergroup Return to Forever, Corea opens Zoellner Art Center’s 2009-2010 season tonight with two of his original Return to Forever soul mates, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White.
Return to Forever is often seen as the core of jazz fusion music in the 1970s, steeped in Miles Davis‘ potent brew of free jazz mixed with a rock-style backbeat, anchored by electronic keyboards and dense percussion.
Corea, who had played keyboards with Davis — replacing Herbie Hancock in 1968 — formed the group in 1972 with Clarke and White, another Davis alumnus. Guitarist Bill Connors, who was replaced after a year by Al DiMeola, rounded out the quartet.
Return to Forever was a showcase for each member’s strong musical personality. The band’s songs were distinctively melodic, due to the Corea’s composing style and the bass-playing style of Clarke, who pioneered the percussive slap funk technique, adapting it to complex jazz harmonies.
Clarke became the first bassist in history to headline tours, has won multiple Grammys and Emmys, and is one of the most influential electric bassists of the 1970s.
White’s musical baptism was as percussionist on Davis’ landmark fusion album ”Bitch’s Brew,” as well as trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s seminal recording ”Red Clay.” He is known for his intensity and relentless pursuit of rhythm, often playing with a cheekiness that enhances the entire performance.
Corea, Clarke and White first performed as a trio in 1973, at the Keystone Korner club in San Francisco, before Return to Forever had hit its stride. Corea, 67, spoke about the trio and some future plans in a phone interview.
Q: Now that Al DiMeola has left the Return to Forever tour, are there any future plans to continue as a quartet?
A: We’re still planning that, and in fact on this tour we’re going to have some friends sit in with us as it happens. Billy Connors is going to join us a couple of times — we’ve hooked up with him again. Jean Luc-Ponte is also going to play with us a bit. We’ll kick it off at the Hollywood Bowl [this week] with Connors, Ponte, Chaka Kahn and John Scofield.
Q: Last year’s Return to Forever concerts were billed as an anthology tour. Will the current trio look back even further?
A: You know, we’re going to let it be an open slate, which is the way we used to play music back in the old days, rather than plan it too heavily. We’re going to kind of let the creative juices flow. We’ll have a few rehearsals to put some basic stuff together, but from there we’ll see where the muse takes us.
Q: Can you do stuff, like, say, ”Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy,” as a trio?
A: Hey, that’s jumping ahead of the muse (laughs). But sure, we can delve into the Return to Forever repertoire — I want to try things from the first two Return to Forever albums, with Flora Purim and Airto Moreira. Some of Stanley’s compositions are really nice from those recordings. But what we play depends on the process — as you know, anything might happen, man!
Q: Have you been attracting a newer audience in addition to Return to Forever diehards?
A: It varies so much night-to-night. Older faces usually turn up, those who have heard the band before — that’s always nice to see. But it looks to me like concert goers these days are usually younger. Of course, at my age, everyone looks younger (laughs).
Q: Return to Forever concerts had two sets, an electric and an acoustic. Are you planning the same for the trio?
A: Again, I’m not sure. I know we’re going to have all the instruments available. I’m going to bring some digital instruments, my Fender Rhodes and various synths, but there’ll also be a 9-foot grand. Stanley’s definitely going to play acoustic bass, but he’ll have his electrics. We’re going to scale down the sound to tighten it up a bit more, to make it more of a jazzy kind of music, you know?
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Corea, Clarke, & White will perform 6 shows over 3 dates at Anthology in San Diego - September 9, 10 & 11. Click here for tickets.
As Fall nears, it’s time for the harvest of new vintages. To get an enticing preview into what a new vintage will offer try a Nouveau. Most commonly associated with the Beaujolais region in France and made from the Gamay Noir grape. This traditionally red grape of the region is a cousin of Pinot Noir, capable of producing complex wines worthy of cellaring, as well as light-bodied Nouveau and rosé.
Nouveau literally translated “new” in French. In wine speak, the term “Nouveau” simply refers to any wine harvested and sold in the same year, but it has special significance for that very reason. As the summer heat reaches its peak, the backbreaking work of harvest begins. A relentless blur of activity from September to October is marked by 14-hour days and countless logistics. The entire year is on the line as ripening grapes play a nerve-racking game of chicken with Mother Nature. Harvest is fun, but it’s definitely not easy. The annual release of Nouveau marks a welcome celebration to the end of harvest, as well as the very first taste of the vintage. Enjoyed for their youthful fruitiness, bright flavors and unpretentious quaffability, they are the perfect match for food, friends and festivity as the holiday season nears.
Look for one of my favorites, Andrew Lane Nouveau Napa Valley 2009 the second week in November.
When considering spirits for fall, think brown. Brown spirits like bourbon and scotch are perfect for a cool fall backdrop. For me there is one place I look to for bourbon, the Buffalo Trace distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. They produce some of the best hand-crafted small batch bourbons like Pappy Van Winkle. Due to its small production you will only find Pappy at a handful of restaurants in San Diego… really special stuff! Anthology is lucky enough to get quite a bit of it offering 12yr, 15yr, 20yr, and the 23yr Pappy Van Winkle. Bourbon cocktails are also really popular in the Fall. Try Buffalo Trace Bourbon, unfiltered apple juice, a bit of maple syrup and a half lemon squeeze.
Cheers!
By George Varga, Pop Music Critic | SignOnSanDiego.com
It’s a sad reality that far too many concert tours skip San Diego in favor of Los Angeles. But there can be advantages to being perceived, however inaccurately, as a very distant L.A. suburb or (as some still quaintly put it) “a sleepy little Navy town.”
Case in point: jazz-fusion luminaries Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, who performed last night at the just under-18,000-capacity Hollywood Bowl. The top ticket price was $126, though you could sit on a wooden bench in the last row (seemingly a quarter of a mile from the stage) for just $1 a ticket.
Corea, Clarke and White perform here next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night at downtown’s all-ages Anthology (anthologysd.com), which has a seating capacity of 250. The top ticket price is $85, which is still steep. But the opportunity to catch this talent-rich band in such an intimate setting, rather than watch them through binoculars at the Hollywood Bowl, is a welcome one.
Keyboardist Corea and bassist Clarke are, of course, two of the four co-founders of Return To Forever (RTF), the pioneering fusion jazz band that was launched not long after Corea’s tenure with Miles Davis ended in the early 1970s. White, RTF’s second and best-known drummer, first recorded with Corea 40 years ago. Both were featured on Davis’ epic 1969 double-album, “Bitches Brew,” which — 28 years later — profoundly inspired the members of England’s Radiohead as they made their 1997 art-rock masterpiece, “OK Computer. ”
I first heard Clarke on two splendid 1972 albums, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers‘ “Child’s Dance” and Stan Getz’s “Captain Marvel.” Barely 21 at the time, he played with such fire, sensitivity and skill he seemed to have already nearly mastered his instrument.
Corea, Clarke and White re-teamed last year with RTF guitarist Al DiMeola for a sold-out reunion tour that, sadly, skipped San Diego. Yet, not having the high-velocity DiMeola here at Anthology might be a plus, since it will allow his RTF band mates to explore an even broader palette of acoustic and electric music.
The trio’s repertoire at Anthology will feature selections from various RTF albums, retooled jazz standards, new music and a surprise or two. Those surprises will almost certainly not include cameos by Chaka Khan, Jean Luc Ponty or original RTF guitarist Bill Connors, who were all scheduled to guest at last night’s Hollywood Bowl gig.
But no matter. Because when Corea, Clarke and White are in sync on stage, there are more than enough musical treats to go around.
