At first listen, some will hear bits of jazz or rock 'n' roll, while others will hear traces of funk, hip hop or electronica. With every subsequent listen after, those varying tones and sounds comprising the music of Medeski, Martin and Wood eventually come together within a series of distinct grooves making the New York…Read more Medeski, Martin and Wood play the Bowl in August

For those listeners who've followed the life of Counting Crows since its thrust into the public eye with the 1993 debut album "August and Everything After," most will admit the band has been nothing but evolutionary. From "AAEA's" compositions and lyrics that seem to have an emotional intensity like the eye of a hurricane sprung…Read more David Immergluck of Counting Crows speaks with The Beach Reporter

Born in 1973 to an opera singer-pianist and a jazz bassist, Nicholas Payton most likely possessed a musical propensity flowing through his veins long before he ever picked up the trumpet. As a native of what many consider the birthplace of jazz -- New Orleans -- Payton fulfills just one of many fascinating traditions setting…Read more Trumpeter Nicholas Payton is performing at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City through the week

Growing up in the tiny Irish village of Ballyporeen with a population of 500 people, singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes as a young child thought country living to be quite boring. As a way of alleviating the monotony, she would spend time playing the piano. With seven other siblings and a father who played keyboards in a…Read more Irish-born singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes performs at the Troubadour in Hollywood

Attracted to a career much different than that of his famous father, Dr. Hugh Everett III, Mark Oliver Everett chose the life of a musician as the founder of the band, Eels. Everett's father, a quantum physicist who exchanged letters with Albert Einstein on his theories of parallel universes, authored a book in the 1950s…Read more The Eels and frontman ‘E’ will release new album later this month