Longtime reader Patrick Scull tells The Syncopated Times that the Holy Crow Jazz Band was the sleeper hit of this year's Jazz Bash by the Bay in Monterey. He said their first set was to a nearly empty room and by the end of the weekend the room was jammed. It was "refreshing", he said, to hear a younger band play "our music" and be so well received.
This was the Crow's first festival performance but they've been together since 2015 and a few members and regular substitutes will be familiar from other West Coast groups.
Trumpet player Charles De Castro has been in the LA music scene for nearly twenty years. He has spent the last ten performing with The Petrojvic Blasting Company and California Feetwarmers.
Justin Rubenstein on trombone hails from Nashville. An experienced and well-traveled busker he played the cello for several years but due to daily wear and tear, maintenance became prohibitively expensive on a busking income and he was forced to seek a more economical version of the cello, which he found in the trombone. Also with the California Feetwarmers and The Petrojvic Blasting Company, he has recorded music for cartoons like Costume Quest and Over the Garden Wall.
David Elsenbroich is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area where he started playing classical guitar at the age of nine. In high school he started playing jazz and went on to study at USC’s Tho
