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Jason Bazilian has been offering integrative medicine in San Diego County since 1998, including complementary care at the White Sands senior-living community in La Jolla. But he’s never lost his musical roots.
For years, Bazilian has taught drumming on Monday and Friday afternoons at La Jolla Music on Girard Avenue.
And he and his wife, Wendy, who live along the border of La Jolla and Pacific Beach, are the co-founders of Bazilians Health Clinic at 1140 Wall St. in La Jolla. The integrative health practice offers acupuncture services, Chinese medicine and more.
Thanks to one of his long-standing musical connections, Bazilian recently had an opportunity to play with a musician he considers to be “a true legend of the Hawaiian Islands.”
That would be Henry Kapono, a Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter, author and actor born in Oahu. Over his decades-long career, he has won 21 Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards, described on his website as “Hawaii’s Grammy.”
He’s also the founder of the Henry Kapono Foundation, a nonprofit that supports music and arts in Hawaii.
The Kapono-Bazilian connection came by way of Johnny Helm, Kapono’s engineer and co-producer, in November.
Over the span of a week, Bazilian and Helm did a series of gigs together and worked on Kapono’s newest EP, or short record.
The first day, the band members met at a marina and got to know one another over Greek food. The first session in Oahu, Bazilian recalls, was loose and creative.
“It was just one of those really, really special afternoons where there was no pressure,” Bazilian said. “There was no stigma. He’s very, very open about wanting you to play what you feel and going with the part, the drumming, the percussion that seems most appropriate to you and fits the music the best.”
The result of those sessions is “Summertime,” a six-track EP released July 11 that spans 19 minutes and several genres. Bazilian described it as “Hawaiian island style mixed with rock ‘n’ roll, a little bit of country, really good storytelling and a little flavor of funkiness.”
Henry Kapono and his band take a curtain call after an Aug. 3 performance at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. The concert included cuts from Kapono’s new “Summertime” EP. (Jason Bazilian)
Much of Bazilian’s work on the record was intrinsic. Music had long been a part of his life, from music programs in elementary, middle and high school to touring in a rock band.
Overall, Bazilian sports 40 years of musicianship and teaching experience.
“I was born with drumming,” he said. “I feel like I had to when I was a little kid. I was always banging on things in the kitchen. … That’s all I wanted to do.”
Bazilian says his two fields of work have “a very interesting overlap,” as personalized medicine also requires some creativity.
“I kept coming back to that idea of putting in the time, hours and practice to try to really get good at something and understand the art of what you’re doing,” said Bazilian, who has a doctorate in acupuncture and Oriental medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland. His website says he is licensed in California, New York and Connecticut.
How he and Wendy approach patients with their clinic can vary based on age and other factors. White Sands residents, for example, often require care to ease migraines, arthritis, knee problems and other aches and pains.
“There’s a whole spectrum of how you look at each individual, and Chinese medicine is very much based on the individual pattern,” Bazilian said. “So there actually is a lot of room for artistry.”
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