Eden Alpert and Jimmy Jam at Vibrato Grill Jazz on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles. Then it was time to salute JFA’s 2023 lifetime achievement honorees. As Petrucelli noted before the video and live ...

Grammy-winning composer Dave Grusin (Mus; HonDocMus’89) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was the subject of a recent documentary, Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time. Director Barbara Bentree (MusEdu’80) has been a ...

“Dave Grusin’s 40-year career in the music business has led him down many paths, and all have been successful for this gifted musician, composer, arranger, recording executive, and cowboy.” —Jazz ...

Just as sunshine pop offered a counterweight to psychedelic hard rock in the late 1960s, soft jazz evolved in the 1970s as a lighter FM alternative to the mystical psychedelic jazz fusion movement.

A short video biography detailed the life and just a few of the accomplishments of Avant, the first of the evening’s honorees, before Davell Crawford and Kori Withers performed tributes to the exec.

Oscar and Grammy-winning composer, producer and jazz pianist Dave Grusin (Mus) is the subject of a forthcoming feature-length documentary, Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time. Dave has received eight Oscar ...

Nestled into a cozy corner of a shopping center high in the Hollywood hills, Herb Alpert’s jazz club Vibrato Grill was the site of a coronation Sunday for not one but three musical luminaries. The ...