Click on the blue title above to see what you missed. Dee Lucas and the band made a rainy winter day seem like spring for a bit on Dec. 21, 2019 @ The Island Hotel in Ft Walton Beach Florida. Dee will definitely be back with Destin Smooth Jazz and all of his new fans in the Panhandle. See more of the show on our YouTube Channel. Thank you Big, The Road Warrior of Smooth Jazz for a great show. https://youtu.be/f7aeMUCN5sY
Two weeks ago, I made the 2 ½ hour drive to D’Iberville, MS to enjoy Satchmo’s first annual free jazz show. What a great investment of my time for such a great show. The line-up included Starz Live, Dee Lucas, Wake Campbell, Theresa Grayson, and Dean James. The compelling reason for the drive on a Sunday…
In 2009 my wife and I attended our first jazz festival. Our biggest dilemma prior to deciding to go, could we stomach 3 days of jazz? I had a history of peaks and valleys in my jazz listening habits and collected and listened to jazz since high school. At one point, I was even trying…
What a week!! We traveled to Galveston, Tx this past weekend for the Moody Gardens Wine and Jazz Festival and had a great time.Iw as introduced to the expertise of Andre Cavor on the sax with great performances by Norman Brown, Julian Vaughn, Gerald Albright and others. All and all, we had a great weekend…
Three years ago, Destin Smooth Jazz realized that our local area had little to no live Smooth Jazz from April to September; we were in a Smooth Jazz desert. DSJ embarked on a journey in 2018 and launched our promotion company and held the first show on Memorial Day weekend 2019. Those of you who…
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr On The Importance Of Jazz On the Importance of Jazz Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of…
My favorite jazz tune growing up in Sumter, SC was organist Jimmy Smith’s High Heel Sneakers, which also tied with his Got My Mojo Working. I was turned on to Jimmy Smith after my father returned from his second trip to Viet Nam with a seven-inch reel-to-reel player. Jimmy Smith was one of the recorded…