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Brubeck Brothers Quartet performed Friday and educated the next morning
During Friday night’s Brubeck Brothers Quartet performance at the Montalvo Arts Center’s intimate Carriage House theater, the quartet played original as well as historical jazz. There was precise drumming by Dan Brubeck. His brother Chris, on bass and trombone, kept the rhythm going talking...
Event benefits annual jazz festival
Los Gatos Music & Arts and Linda L. Lester will present “The GALA” for Jazz on the Plazz, featuring renowned vocalist Kim Nalley.
The event will take place Sept. 26 from 5-9pm La Estancia Estate, 18000 Overlook Road in Los Gatos. The gala benefits Jazz...
This week’s cover shot: Oktoberfest
KCAT TV & Radio turned the Los Gatos Civic Center Lawn into a Bavarian village last Saturday for their Oktoberfest fundraiser. This included live music, traditional food, dancing and games.
All proceeds go to support KCAT’s year-round media programs that "uplift, educate, and connect our...
Sounds of Summer bringing bluegrass to Plaza Park
Several weeks ago, a dirt-manure mixture was spread—by hand—around Town Plaza Park. And while the blades are coming in thick and luscious with clover, it’s a different kind of bluegrass that will be the star of the show tomorrow.
Los Gatos Music and Arts, the...
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet to teach master-class
Imagine being a middle or high school-aged music student who gets to play alongside jazz greats.
That will be more than a dream for several local students, thanks to an upcoming workshop organized by Los Gatos Music & Arts (LGM&A), which has produced Jazz on...
The Three Graces have arrived at Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company
Three classic figures—splendor, joy and good cheer—now reside at the front of Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co., representing the “stronger together” ethos that has been a theme since a devastating car crash shook the building.
The artist behind this temporary mural, which went up last...
Los Gatos guitarist to rock San Jose as a Beach Boy this weekend
The Beach Boys came on the scene in 1961, straight outta Hawthorne, California. The group’s songs embodied the myth of a youthful and carefree Southern California existence, one filled with surfboards, cars and pretty girls.
The core group—bassist and primary songwriter Brian Wilson, his brothers...
James McMurtry takes ‘Los Gatos’ song for a spin at Americana Awards
Nearly a year ago, I was having a drink and editing some video over at the Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn in Davenport, when I met a surfer, up from LA for a weekend trip.
When I told him I was working as a reporter for...
Can a plaza be an island? Enjoying our jazz oasis
Is Los Gatos like San Francisco, without the bridge and the fog? Is Los Gatos like Hawaii, without the ocean and the hula? No, our exceptional town of Los Gatos, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, is uniquely just Los Gatos. And...
Los Gatos’ country station selling to K-LOVE owner for $3M
It traces its roots to North Santa Cruz Avenue. Its second studio was on Royce Street.
And even after moving its air room to San Jose, Los Gatos has remained 95.3 KRTY’s home, as far as the Federal Communications Commission is concerned. The independently-owned station...
