Click, Listen, Register, Play, Love, Celebrate!!!!

This Thursday Dec 18th @ 5pm @

City National Plaza – Click Pic for Directions!

KPFK’s Holiday Concert & Benefit Show

Saturday December 20th

Featuring Oscar Hernandez, Luis Conte and many more phenomenal artists!

Join KPFK’s own Maggie LePique as she celebrates 20 years at KPFK with a star studded Holiday concert at the Catalina Jazz Club on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood California!

 Music director for the night will be pianist Oscar Hernandez of the world renowned Spanish Harlem Orchestra. With amazing artists, guests and performances.

Oscar Hernandez

Host for the evening will be Richard Montoya! Joining Oscar and Richard will be an amazing line up of artists including:

Bassist Rene Camacho, Percussionist Luis Conte, Jazz Trombonist Phil Ranelin, Stunning vocalists – The Haden Triplets,Violinist, vocalist, and composer Lili Haydn, Singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd, Guitarist, composer Grant Geissman, Drummer Clayton Cameron, Jazz singer Michelle Coltrane Samba Da Mudança, surprize guests & more…

Also appearing will be Comedian Jimmy Dore of KPFK’s “Jimmy Dore Show”!

Plus your favorite KPFK DJs and personalities

Bill Gardner, Mark Torres, Teddy Robinson, Yatrika Shah-Rais, Sergio Mielniczenko and Maggie LePique

Get your tickets now!

 Images for the KPFK Hero Awards at Catalina Jazz Club 2011

KPFK Holiday Concert – Saturday December 20th

VIP Reception, Meet & Greet at 6:00 pm, Show starts at 8:00 pm

Catalina Jazz Club 6725 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

VIP Tickets $80* – General Admission $55*  – Reserve your tickets now!

VIP Ticket includes a sepcial meet & greet reception with appetizers, an exclusive KPFK gift bag and preferential reserved seating.

Early bird special – Limited Time –

General Admission $45*

Tickets available here http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/975689

*Dinner or 2 items minimum required at each table at Catalina’s

A benefit show for KPFK’s Studio A Project

**NOTE – Artists appearing subject to change without notice**

Click and Listen to an interview with John Beasley

The Performance will be at the Walt Disney Concert Hall December 6th & 13th at 11am

Click above and listen to the Sounds and Colors interview with Holophonor!

Enjoy the brand new band Holophonor! 2014 graduates of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz take on the future of the music together!

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Yes indeed!! The Jazzcat has a new app that you can download to your mobile devices so let’s roll together. The app is full of content that contains radio archives, performance recommendations, articles, over 150 interviews with you favorite jazz artists and so much more. Download it and check it out!!!

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 1) Click the link http://my.yapp.us/THEJAZZCAT

Your phone or mobile device will direct you to your App store and ask you to download the free application YAPP!

2) Download it! Of course this will require that you remember you password!

3) Once you do, select Download and existing app

The application will appear and then you can explore!!!

Lots to see, hear and read and I will be updating it all of the with Jazz content that I know you will enjoy!

Thanks!

LeRoy Downs

TheJazzcat

 Click Picture Above for Aug 16th show Below to Listen to Aug 9th show

Come join me for 3 hours of cutting edge progressive jazz at it’s finest. It’s not very often I get a chance to stretch for that length of time. If you believe and crave Freedom, Thought, Spirit, Love and Creativity in your music then be with me as we dance on the axis of spontaneity and beam with the sonic colors of sound!

89.9FM KCRW.com

Brother Bo Liebowitz has kindly given me the keys to the ship and while he searches for leisure, the dreidle of jazz energy will be spinning off the charts at full strength! I am calling those from all galaxies, Los Angeles, New York, Japan, Chicago, Copenhagen, London, Russia, Brazil, Poland and where ever else you reside on the planet. Let’s take this beautiful ride together!

Click Pictures below to listen to various shows

More Love, More Music! Jazz, the incredible sounds that allow us to interact with each other through sonic exploration not only of the music but ourselves! Come and spend one lovely hour as we tap into the roads less traveled and experience good, energetic, beautiful and progressive vibrations. It’s always so nice to be on the air playing, blending and creating a great jazz experience for you. Click the picture above and listen live

Click picture above for Sunday July 13th show. Only able to capture 30 mins…

Click Picture on left to listen to July 6th show below will be archived after tonight!

We will talk about the upcoming 25th Year Anniversary Honoring the Great Billy Higgins concert at the John Anson Ford on August 24th  

Click KXLU 88.9 banner to listen live!!!

LeRoy Downs is taking the wheel of Eddie Becton’s Jazz Journey! Eddie has given me the keys to the jet again this weekend and said it was cool to ascend, take some sharp turns, and High Fly! I always look forward to sharing great jazz music with you. Should be fun adventurous and beautiful! Listen to June the 6th great hour of progressive loveliness by clicking my picture. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have so much to talk about. There are some fantastic concerts that are just around the corner and I don’t want you to miss out! Let’s play some music and talk about it!!!!     Brother Becton might be back next week but if not, we will take flight again!!! You can click the picture of Eddie and I for a show that we did together in Nov of ’13. Please tune in at

7pm PST

89.9FM or KXLU.Com

Click Picture above to listen to the Archive of May 17th 2014 show!!! Click picture of Charlie Haden below for the tribute dedicated to the life of the Great Charlie Haden.

May his soul rest in peace!

Come and join me @ 3AM TONIGHT Friday Night / Saturday Morning as I appear alongside 89.9 FM KCRW.Com Jazz host Bo Liebowitz!!           

  Bo Leibowitz and LeRoy Downs trading sets of the finest jazz!!!

  Saturday July 12th

3am – 6am Los Angeles

 Progressive Jazz Music Lovers from all over the world UNITE!

New York  London  Chicago  New Orleans  Tokyo  Paris  Istanbul  Brussels  Moscow Washington Poland Copenhagen TUNE-IN!!!

To Listen Click KCRW Above

It will be cognitive jazz science as usual as Bo and I trade sets to create an experience in the music. A Pre-eminent, Progressive, Sonic Experience in Jazz!!!! Don’t Sleep !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pianist Helen Sung is an artist who was born classical and grew up a jazz player. The Houston born composer, educator and swinging pianist was first introduced to the music in college and once intrigued by its rhythms, harmonies and sense of freedom, she switched her classical major to study jazz. Accepted as part of the first iteration of The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, Helen soaked up all of the lessons from Jazz Masters such as Ron Carter, Clark Terry, Jackie McLean, Ray Brown, Jimmy Heath and many others. Her latest record “Anthem For A New Day”, features Reuben Rogers, Obed Calvaire, Ingrid Jensen, Seamus Blake, Regina Carter, John Ellis, Paquito D’Rivera. This JazzCorner.com InnerView is sponsored in part by the DC Jazz Festival. For more information visit http://dcjazzfest.org

Click Picture Below for interview

If you have ever heard one note from the great Dianne Reeves, you know she has you at hello! Her new album, “Beautiful Life” touches on several aspects of music and plays on the strings of our sensibilities, Mixing in her love of collaboration, Dianne has teamed up with a stunning array of peers including Esperanza Spaulding, Robert Glasper, George Duke, Gregory Porter, Gerald Clayton, Lalah Hathaway, Richard Bona and her producer Terri Lyne Carrington. In this JazzCorner.com InnerView, LeRoy Downs talks with Dianne Reeves about “Beautiful Life” sponsored in part by the Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival. For more information visit: http://pittsburghjazzlive.com

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