{"id":452309,"date":"2026-09-03T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452309\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:20:10","slug":"the-three-san-diego-concerts-you-will-very-likely-regret-not-attending-in-the-coming-week-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452309\/","title":{"rendered":"The three San Diego concerts you will very likely regret not attending in the coming week \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep Purple, with Kansas<\/p>\n

\u201cNever Say Die\u201d is the name of a 1978 Black Sabbath album. But its title has been a near-constant mission statement for Deep Purple, which \u2014 like Black Sabbath \u2014 debuted in 1968.<\/p>\n

True, Deep Purple imploded in 1976 and was on hiatus for the next eight years. But the pioneering English hard-rock band has been an otherwise constant presence since then. And three of its five current members \u2014 drummer Ian Paice, bassist Roger Glover and singer Ian Gillan \u2014 have been bandmates since 1969, a year after Deep Purple debuted.<\/p>\n

Black Sabbath, by comparison, was inactive from 1984 to 1985, 1996 to 1997 and 2006 to 2011, before concluding its final farewell tour in 2017, then reuniting for four songs last summer, a few weeks before the death of lead singer Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n

Where Black Sabbath\u2019s varying lineups have featured more than half a dozen different lead singers over the years (including, briefly, Gillan), Deep Purple has had four and Gillan\u2019s tenure in three editions of the band adds up to a combined 44 years.<\/p>\n

Gillan is now 81, Glover, 80, and Paice, 78 (the same age as keyboardist Don Airey, who joined the band in 2001). Simon McBride, 47, joined the band in 2022 and is the fourth guitarist in Deep Purple\u2019s 57-year history.<\/p>\n

Against considerable odds, Deep Purple released its 24th studio album, \u201cSplat!\u201d, in July and is on the road again \u2014 nine years after launching its \u201cThe Long Goodbye Tour\u201d and 10 years after drummer Paice suffered a mini-stroke. Last year, Gillan disclosed that he was diagnosed with retinopathy and now has only has 30 percent of his vision remaining. He also stressed he is no hurry to retire.<\/p>\n

Deep Purple\u2019s fourth album to come out in the past six years, \u201cSplat!\u201d may not measure up to such band classics as 1970\u2019s \u201cIn Rock,\u201d 1971\u2019s \u201cFireball\u201d and 1972\u2019s \u201cMachine Head.\u201d Those three albums that were hard-rocking favorites of mine in my mid-teens, as well as \u2014 on some especially charged songs \u2014 vital prototypes for speed-metal.<\/p>\n

But \u201cSplat!\u201d is a consistently solid and accomplished outing by a veteran band that sounds like it still has more than a little left to prove. Its performance here Tuesday comes nearly a month after the group reunited \u2014 for the first time since 1993 \u2014 with Deep Purple\u2019s long estranged original guitarist Ritchie Blackmore at a New York concert. They only played one song together, the inevitable \u201cSmoke On The Water.\u201d<\/p>\n

No other reunions have been announced with Blackmore, 81, who suffers from vertigo, gout and heart issues, and has four herniated disks in his lumbar region. \u201cI think we realized it could be the last time we see each other, maybe,\u201d he told Guitar Player magazine. \u201cI was there to heal any wounds \u2014 but there weren\u2019t any wounds. Everyone was like, we were in the army, all along the Western front and we were all getting together again. Very emotional moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8. North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, 2050 Entertainment Circle, Chula Vista. $24.75-$122. ticketmaster.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MilesMiles Davis was one of the major cultural forces of the 20th century. His impact is still being felt today, 35 years after his death. His legacy will be saluted in concert this weekend at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. (Sony Music)
\n\u201cMiles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie at The Shell: A Night In Tunisia and More,\u201d Gilbert Castellanos & The KSDS Jazz Orchestra<\/p>\n

What\u2019s in a name?<\/p>\n

Saturday night\u2019s concert at The Shell was originally billed as \u201cManteca! A Dizzy Gillespie & Chano Pozo Celebration,\u201d featuring Gilbert Castellanos & The KSDS Jazz Orchestra.<\/p>\n

The description of the renamed concert on The Shell\u2019s website still includes \u201cA Night in Tunisia,\u201d \u201cCubana Be, Cubana Bop,\u201d \u201cManteca\u201d and \u201cTin Tin Deo,\u201d four perpetually vibrant gems that bebop trumpet king Gillespie and Cuban percussion legend Chano Pozo recorded in the 1940s.<\/p>\n

But now the show will also include performances of landmark works by Davis and Rollins, making for a more varied repertoire.<\/p>\n

And with an 18-piece band that includes such standout players as trumpeters Castellanos and Derek Cannon, saxophonists Justo Almario and Charlie Arbelaez, trombonist Matt Hall and pianist Irving Flores, expect musical fireworks to prevail.<\/p>\n

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5. The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222 Marina Park Way, downtown. $47-$103. theshell.org<\/a><\/p>\n

TajMo: Taj Mahal & Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019 Room On The Porch Tour 2026<\/p>\n

American roots-music giant Taj Mahal is 84. Blues stalwart Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019 is 74.<\/p>\n

Their first album together, 2017\u2019s \u201cTajMo,\u201d won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Bues Album. Its sequel, last year\u2019s \u201cRoom On The Porch\u201d is just as enticing.<\/p>\n

With only a 10-year age difference between them, the musical rapport between these two guitar-playing singers and songwriters is more like an older and younger brother than father-son.\u00a0But the wealth of experience they bring\u00a0 to the stage is as palpable as the depth and skill they bring to the rich aural traditions that they salute and extend on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n

Backed by a 7-piece band, the two switch instruments and lead vocals with the ease and assuredness one would expect from artists of their stellar caliber. And they soar on stage whether performing their own songs or taking deep dives into such classics as Sleepy John Estes\u2019 \u201cDiving Duck Blues\u201d and Jimmy Cox\u2019s \u201cNobody Loves You When You\u2019re Down and Out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Keb'Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019 (left) and Taj Mahal are touring together this summer as TajMo. The duo will perform next week with their band at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay (Courtesy of Jay Blakesberg)<\/p>\n

7:30 p.m. next Friday, Sept. 11. Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island. $87.50. humphreysconcerts.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep Purple, with Kansas \u201cNever Say Die\u201d is the name of a 1978 Black Sabbath album. But its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[967,181,6682,74,76,75,420],"class_list":["post-452309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}