If you would like to keep up on what I'm doing (mostly musical performances around Southern California, but also some writing and recordings, and maybe some minor touring), please join my email list here: jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/m... Thanks!

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Our Jazz Styles Series, which began a couple of years ago, publishes brief, introductory volumes aimed at the general reader and college students who wishes to learn more about the basic jazz genres, from the turn of the 20th century to today. Browse our growing collection at tinyurl.com/5dpdnksp.

Two big shows Saturday! 2PM at @daredevilarts with Andrea Centazzo and Ellen Burr at the Electric Lodge/Daredevil Arts Festival in Venice. $15. Film with live original score, both by Andrea Centazzo. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/animae-mun...

<jumping on a meme> Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

Hey Culver City people: Dig the new CC feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... and LMK if there are things we should add. Thanks!

Congratulations to Jonathon Grasse on winning Biography of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association! jjajazzawards.org/2025-winners...

This month's shows. May 10 Santa Monica Symphony 7PM - free - RSVP www.smsymphony.org/events/seaso... May 16 The Soapbox 6:30-10PM - free May 17 Intangible (trio edition) 2PM May 17 Anna Homler & David Javelosa 7PM - free - RSVP (sold out, standby list is open) welcometolace.org/lace/perform...

Four shows this week! Two experimental/two classical. Thursday at 10AM Intangible (gamin, Robert Reigle, Tim Feeney, and me) kicks off the "A Day for Us" fire recovery fundraiser in DTLA. $25 for 12 hours of music & performance. (events.immersiveartcollective.org/.../imm.../1...)

Two shows this week! Andrea Centazzo's music Wed. night with Andrea & Ellen Burr, then jazz etc. Friday. No cover either place, so stop by if you're free!

If you missed this live score performance last week in Long Beach, we're doing it again Friday night! ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/495... Supported by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles!

Performance video by my band Intangible now online as part of the Wonder Valley Experimental Music Festival Virtual Edition: youtu.be/nz6TIrm5LaI?...

Tomorrow night (4/1) tune in at 8PM PST for a video stream including a performance by Intangible (gamin, Robert Reigle, Tim Feeney, and me). www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINa...

This show is tonight. If you are near Pasadena I hope you come by!

This was the last set in a two-night festival of ad hoc improvisation groupings in January. I think it was pretty good. With Marc Perez (trombone etc) and Matt Crane (drums). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLpv...

Coming in May - one film has a solo bass score by me, but I'm sure the rest are great... kinolorberedu.com/film/wonder-...

March shows. www.smsymphony.org/events/sprin... healingforcerecords.com/events/andre...

Two shows this weekend! Come through if you're in LA.

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Improvised music this Saturday afternoon in Pasadena. Set 1: Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Jason Levis (drums), Vinny Golia (winds) Set 2: Miller Wrenn, Lisa, and me (bass x 3) Set 3: assorted combinations of the above, plus Charles Sharp (winds) and Wilfrido Terrazas (flutes) Hope to see you there!

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One show left in our Bay Area Tour: Tonight at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco - Ken Ueno (voice), gamin (piri & saenghwang), Tim Feeney (percussion), and myself (bass) - plus two other fantastic acts. 7PM. No cover. Hope to see you there!

If you'd like to watch something different today, you can stream this show, featuring Intangible (Robert Reigle, gamin, yours truly, and birthday boy Tim Feeney) live between 2-6PM PST. Performance + talk + some records. kfjc.org/event/7184

Bay Area Tour: - Intangible 1/19 7PM (sfsound.org/series/#2025...) - Intangible on KFJC Monday 1/20 2-6PM (stream: kfjc.org/event/7184) - gamin, Tim Feeney, and yours truly play with Ken Ueno at the Makeout Room, SF, , Tuesday 1/21 7PM (www.facebook.com/events/89043...) Hope to see you there!

My next show - a week from Friday. Playing tunes (by Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley, Bobby Bradford, and more) with friends at an Ethiopian restaurant. No cover. Stop by if you're near West LA.

Dean Westerfield's drawing of the last two sets from Saturday night's Some Things from Nothing improvisation festival in Pasadena. That's Marc Perez (trombone), me, and Matt Crane (drums) in the back.

I updated my website with a 2024 wrap-up: jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/2... info on the new Andrea Centazzo box set I'm on: jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/m... and Jan. 2025 shows: jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/j...

This documentary, shot at the 2022 Ictus Festival in Milan is now available to stream for free! Features a legion of improvisers from across the US and Europe, yours truly, and the star of the show - Andrea Centazzo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pE1...

I am really excited to be part of this set of recordings from a four-night festival held in Milan in 2022 celebrating Andrea Centazzo & Ictus Records. Download available now: sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/ictus-... CDs & video coming soon!

The Soapbox is my "jazz" band. We have a monthly gig at the Industry Cafe & Jazz, a casual Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurant in Culver City's Arts District. We play tunes, some standard, some not, in ways that are standard and not. No cover.

I organized this program last night. I think it was pretty cool. Check it out if it seems like your sort of thing: youtu.be/YvLxkUEMNHs

If you're in the LA area, reserve your tickets now for this show on Dec. 7. We're giving the west coast premiere of John Williams' "Prelude & Scherzo" for piano & orchestra with Gloria Cheng as soloist. Amazing, and it's free. Sure to sell out... www.smsymphony.org/events/winte...

I am not sure how much self-promotion is appropriate on this platform, but I am playing a nice classical show at 2PM today in Downtown LA if you're around. vicentechamberorchestra.com

and, if you're in the Los Angeles area, I have two shows this weekend. Jazz in Culver City Friday night (poster below) and classical in Downtown LA Sunday (vicentechamberorchestra.com).

For people who might not know me, here's my musician stuff: jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com My political stuff: www.c-c-d-c.com and my most recent book: sunypress.edu/Books/F/Free...