Interviews to come.....

I am going to start holding interviews with musicians based in the Southern California area. I need to start constructing questions and I have a list of people I would like to start with:

Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Shin Kawasaki, Ulrich Krieger, Hans Fjellstad, Steuart Liebig, Wayne Peet, GE Stinson, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Rocco Somazzi, Titus Levi, Jeff Kaiser, Mark Trayle, Jeff Gauthier, David Witham, Bobby Bradford, Michael Sessions, and many, many, more. I would like to interview a lot of the not so well known composers/players as well, but ones who are playing out often and keeping the music fresh. The previous list is just off the top of my head. I would like to dig deeper.

Will start soon maybe have the first up by next month, will have to see how it goes. Need to figure out how to do....I'm a musician not an interviewer. Would like them to be kind of like Anil Prasad's highly successful interviews on his Innerviews site.

Welcome to the Creative Music in Southern California Blog

There are so many talented and creative musicians in Southern CA that get little to no recognition locally, not to mention nationally. I wish to shed some light on a geographic, musical area where artists are turning out a huge body of quality work and in turn, they are not getting the same kind of attention that their counterparts in other parts of the country and world seem to enjoy.

I hope this blog will start to change that and that it will become a valuable resource to the fans and artists of the much neglected SoCal Creative Music scene by promoting individual artists, their upcoming performances, and new CD releases.

If you are an artist, please send me your gig info, CD release info, and what have you, so that we can try and build a more coherent scene and get some much needed recognition for the SoCal Creative Music.