Caltech Orchestra Concerts this weekend

Hello all.  Seasons change…..

Letting you know this Friday and Saturday nights at 8 PM I will be in the bass section of the Caltech Orchestra.
Our performance is at Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech Campus
1200 E. California Blvd. M/C: 2-70, Pasadena, CA 91125

The Orchestra along with Caltech Glee Club and Chamber Singers will present:

Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore (K. 339)

Bernstein Chichester Psalms

Admission is free and no tickets required.
For more info call 626-395-3295

Hope you can attend!
Leslie

This Weekend

I’m in the bass section of the Caltech Orchestra this Sunday April 22, 2018 @ 3:30 pm

The concert takes place in Ramo Auditorium on the Cal Tech Campus in Pasadena.

1200 E. California Blvd., M/C, Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-3295/music-theater-art@caltech.edu. If you’ve not been there before allow extra time to find it.

Admission is free and no tickets are required.  Youngjoon Choi, Piano (competition winner). Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2.    Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

I invite my friends to come, bring your friends and family for an exhilirating afternoon with the Caltech Orchestra.

Jazz in the Schools Black History Month 2018

Another Black History Month Program with Dr. Bobby Rodriguez in a 5 piece band that introduces grammar school kids to Jazz, America’s Art form.  It is a pleasure to be part of this with Dr. Bobby Rodriguez, Maria Martinez, Andre Delano and Brian O’Rourke.

Our sponsors are Los Angeles Jazz Society, Musicians Trust Fund, Beyond the Bell, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs and the Herb Alpert Foundation.

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The Bass is a really big instrument!

Creativity is a human trait.  We can foster it in each other.  More pictures will be added to this post soon.  We have five more performances coming up this month.

Jazzabration celebrates Leslie Baker and Yevette Stewart

Thanks to any and all who take the time to share this wonderful time with me and Yevette Stewart, a friend and fine Jazz Vocalist.  We are being honored in Inglewood “City of Champions ” as a Living Legends of Jazz and Blues.  I look forward to joining many of my colleagues who have been so honored.

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 Jazzabrations & Vespers at “The Side”(Live Jazz and Liturgy interwoven)

Morningside Church
8722 Crenshaw Blvd. Ingelwood CA 90305
March 26, 2017 5-7 PM
$20 donation at the door
RSVP www.morningsideucc.org
or call Linda Morgan 562-762-6441

 

What a Year!

2016 has been a great year for growth and new beginnings.  The creativity flows.  The fun continues. How lucky am I?  I picked up 2 new basses this year, both Fenders.  So I got plenty to boom boom boom with considering the collection of instruments those 2 get added to. The Fender Precision sounds great in Bobby Hurricane Spencer’s All Star band where I feel transported to New Orleans every time because of a fantastic drummer named Albert Trepanier Jr.  This is the band with the trending video, over 112K people know “we got the blues”.  It’s been great to play music with so many very talented people.