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JazzTrax this week: April 3rd-4th
- CBS's hit Charlie Sheen Sitcom 'Two and a Half Men' Music Director Visits Jazztrax Studio
- Big Bear Lake Snow Melt Has Begun...
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Weekend of  April  3rd - 4th
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Showcase of the Absolute Newest!
 
 
JazzTrax Guest
Guitarist Grant Geissman
Music Director of  Charlie Sheen's
CBS Sitcom 'Two and a Half Men'
Grant Geissman

Guitarist Grant Geissman the JazzTrax Studio this week.With an extensive solo career, big name in this genre especially in the late 80's and early 90's, he has for seven seasons been the co-music director and co-creator of the catchey theme song for the smash CBS Charlie Sheen sitcom 'Two and a Half Men'. He has stories galore from that show including how it's put together each week at Warner Bros. in Burbank with an actual classroom and tutors off the set for young Jake, the child actor. Annd how he and his partner create all the piano playing for Charlie Sheen who appears to be playing, but cannot play the piano. Plus memories of his earliest days in the L.A. music scene as guitarist for Chuck Mangione in the late 70's. Grant was the guitar solo of the Top40 Intrumental hit 'Feels So Good'.
   
   
Archive Album
2006 Pieces of a Dream 'Pillow Talk'
Pieces of a Dream

April will bring the first early JazzTrax listens from the forthcoming David Benoit & Mindi Abair. Along with Songs from March brand new Chris Standring, Steve Oliver & Jaared, Art takes our ears back into 2006 and one of the JazzTrax Top 10 Albums four years ago with hourly listens from Pieces of a Dream's 'Pillow Talk' CD including it's big radio hit, 'Forward Emotion'.
     
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Big Bear Lake
Art Good
Big Bear Lake melt has begun...
 
Spring is here after one of the biggest snowfall winter's in recent Southern California history. January's nine- footer the biggest since 1969 in Big Bear. The largest Alpine Lake above Los Angeles is filling to the brim! With beautiful blue water! It is two and a half months to the move of the 5th Annual JazzTrax Summer Music Festival to our new Lakeside Lawn with the stars performing on a floating stage on the lake. Host Hotels literally at the Festival Venue. 
 
Book Now so as to experience fully our Summertime 'Ski In, Ski Out' (without the skiis) locale. From our Host Hotels,  Marina Resort, Robin Hood Resort, WALK to everything as JazzTrax is now in the Village of Big Bear Lake and right on the lake.
Get ready for the Opening Night Sunset Cocktail Party as the sun goes down on the lake behind our Floating Stage on Big Bear Lake and then with NO ticket required, Guitarist Steve Oliver rocks our Opening Night After Party at Nottingham's!

- See Big Bear Summer Line-Up Right Now
- Book Hotel Ticket Package at Host Hotel
- Purchase Tickets Right Now

Catalina Island Set For Summer Season begining in late April with opening of Descanso Beach, ending with October's Three Weekends of JazzTrax

Did you know that Catalina Island is all of Southern California's Sailing Destination? With Yacht Clubs and Marina's dotting the coastline from Santa Barbara to San Diego. where else would they head but an Island 26 Miles out there in the Pacific Ocean... to our tiny seaport village of Avalon with the Wrigley's who own the Island having gone through an extensive remodel of Descanso Beach, adding Cabana's and Beach Fire Pits where our October Saturday Night JazzTrax Festival After Parties have everyone dancing on the Beach at Midnight! 
 
Most economical way to come to JazzTrax is with another couple or couples, sharing the overnight accommodation expenses on rental condo's, full rental houses, or Hamilton Cove Villa's that include a private golf cart for zipping around Avalon. And of course the brand new Zip Line from up the mountain down to Descanso Beach... 'zip and sip'. Catalina Island Vacation Rentals (www.CatalinaVacations.com ) can set you up with the very best accommodations right now.

Come Explore The Getaway Possibilities For You and Your Most Loved One, or You And Friends at a JazzTrax Festival On-Line
 
Just like reading the Travel Section with a cup of latte on Sunday Morning, grab your cup and come visit us online at JazzTrax.com. Explore our Picture Pages that depict clearly the two incredible JazzTrax Festival locations. Because in all the world no place like this for jazz!

On line, click directly to the Avalon Ballroom's October Seating Chart or June's LakeSide Lawn on Big Bear Lake Seating Chart and SEE what it all looks like and what might still be available for your dream JazzTrax Festival getaway.

Click our on line links for Accommodations and while sipping your coffee or weeknight glass of wine,  view and dream of being in a Hamilton Cove Villa overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Of putting on the 18 hole Hamilton Cove putting green or playing tennis on one of two lit courts. Or being in the outdoor Jacuzzi that overlooks the Ocean.

Look at the pictures of in town Avalon Hotels from which you simply slip out the door onto Main Street's tasty restaurants and interesting shops all facing a seaport harbor filled with sailboats and fishing boats with a short walk down the Boardwalk to the Casino and the Avalon Ballroom where each October over three consecutive weekends JazzTrax presents World Class Contemporary Jazz on the JazzTrax Live Performance Stage. See the 30 Artist October Line-Up Right Now!

Or at Catalina Vacations click to view the incredulous rental houses in Avalon, including on the flats and on the hillside below the Wrigley Mansion overlooking the ocean, harbor, casino, village, with scenic sightlines that are almost unimaginable. Spectacular 2, 3, 4 bedroom rental houses that can have you in shared accommodations with other couples or friends, having the most remembered JazzTrax Festival getaway you could ever have imagined. It's early Spring. the time to dream of such a getaway, and plan early for the absolute best hotel and ticket deals. Don't let someone else get your dream seats on the Lakeside Lawn or in the Avalon Ballroom. Don't let someone else get your dream room in the Village of Big Bear Lake or Villa at Hamilton Cove or rental house in Avalon.

In all the World, no place like this for Jazz. On an Alpine Lake, in Summertime above Southern California. On an Island. 26 Miles out to Sea in a tiny Seaport Village called Avalon in a Ballroom. smothered in Smooth Jazz. looking out to sea.
 
Art Good
JazzTrax Producer/Creator
The JazzTrax Radio Show in April 2010
The Weekly 5-Hour Showcase of the Absolute Newest
featuring the Stars of Smooth Jazz and a Classic Archive Album
   
Weekend of April 3rd-4th
Show #1014
Guest:
Guitarist Grant Geissman
Music Director of Smash Charlie Sheen CBS Sitcom'Two and a Half Men'
Archive Album:
Pieces of a Dream 2006 'Pillow Talk'
   
Weekend of April 10th-11th
Show #1015
Guest:
Saxophonist Jaared to Debut 'Manhattan Nights'
Archive Album:
Jesse Cook Solo Debut 1995 'Tempest'
   
Weekend of April 17th-18th
Show #1016
Guest:
New Saxophonist Kyle Wolverton
Archive Album:
1994 Rick Braun 1997 'Body and Soul'
   
Weekend of April 24th-25th
Show #1017
Guest:
David Benoit to debut 'Earth Glow'
Archive Album:
1986 'Introducing Jonathan Butler'
 
~ 5th Annual ~
Big Bear Lake
JazzTrax Summer
Music Festival 
 
Summertime
 'Ski in, Ski out'
Just Steps
from everything!

Park the car
walk to The Village, Venue, and Hotel

Full Weekend
and Session Tickets
On Sale NOW!

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The 24th Annual
Catalina Island
JazzTrax Festival 
~ since 1987 ~
 
Full Session Tickets
On Sale NOW!

The Best Seats
sell first!
 
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