His first name is Benny, but the world has always known him by his surname, Latimore. The Tennessee native, who’s lived in Hillsborough County for a...
St. Petersburg Opera Company’s 15th season wasn’t all that it could have been. The ongoing pandemic scrubbed an entire well-planned schedule of fully-produced operas at the...
Question: What were the bay area’s big band musicians doing during the pandemic? Answer: Everything but playing music, that’s for sure. There’s reason to celebrate tonight’s...
Welcome to a relatively slooow late-summer weekend. Let’s not call these the Dog Days, however, because the things that are happening are anything but dog-like: Victor...
Trumpeter Duane Eubanks comes from a long line of jazz musicians. His mother, all three of his brothers and a handful of uncles are players of...
The jazz duo Orilla debuted on an episode of The Catalyst Sessions last fall, and went on to appear, virtually, several times over the intervening months....
Gypsy Star, the Suncoast world-music band fronted by guitarist and composer Billy Keen, makes a too-long-in-coming return to thestudio@620 Friday, in support of a new single,...
There’s a plethora of tribute bands out there (and, more than likely, a band called “Plethora”) and they’re all certainly staffed with solid musicians. But is...
In all of opera, arguably the best-known aria of all is “Vesti la giubba,” from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Between Caruso, Pavarotti and Crazy Joe Davola on Seinfeld,...
If you need proof that music is indeed the universal language, consider Tampa’s Ona Kirei. The jazz vocalist, born and bred in Barcelona, Spain, is a...