Brooks Geiken

Brooks Geiken is a retired Spanish teacher, with a lifelong interest in music, specifically Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and Black American music. His wife thinks he should write a book titled "The White Dude's Guide to Afro-Cuban & Jazz Music". Brooks lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Concert Reviews1 month ago

Dave Liebman Quartet At The California Jazz Conservatory

On Friday April 14th the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, California presented a rare opportunity to see and hear Dave Liebman in a quartet setting. The trio...
Album Reviews2 months ago

Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest: Olympians

Seven-time Grammy winning composer/conductor Vince Mendoza has arranged and conducted a suite of songs with the Metropole Orkest that reaches the lofty heights suggested by its...
Concert Reviews2 months ago

The John Santos Sextet: A Puerto Rico del Alma – Concert Review

At the end of October and the beginning of December 2022, the San Francisco Bay Area had two special occasions of music from percussion master John...