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Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 1
Jazz writers like to grouse about how nothing changes at the Playboy Jazz Festival from year to year but the names on the program. Yet one can look at this stasis in a different way, as comfort food in bad times, as a ritual that one can depend upon and hopefully will never go away. It ...
Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 2
It's dangerous to speculate which program of the two-day Playboy Jazz Festival will be the better one just by glancing at the lineup. Most of the time, you will be wrong. Someone might be having an off-day, one act doesn't flow comfortably into the next, an overlooked veteran or a newcomer will suddenly get hot, the ...
Christopher Nolan's Dim View of a Hollywood Craze: 'I'm Not a Huge Fan of 3-D'
Christopher Nolan, speaking at the Hero Complex Film Festival, was cheered loudly by the audience when he made a moviegoer confession: “I'm not a huge fan of 3-D." The director of “The Dark Knight" added that, after doing 3-D tests, his new film “Inception" will not be released in the trendy stereoscopic format because “we didn't ...
Tonys Celebrate Commerce, Not Art
In Tony Awards voters' eyes, box-office potential and Hollywood celebrity trump quality and innovation. Awards should be aspirational, validating excellence and originality even though each and every one of us knows that commercialism rules the day. But far be it from the ever-insecure Tony's the geeky glee club representative of the major entertainment awards to bite ...
L. A. Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann Dies
Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation. Fleischmann, a visionary administrator who had a hand in every decision made about the orchestra for nearly 30 years, was pivotal in raising its profile and quality. Ernest Fleischmann, the impresario who dominated the Los Angeles Philharmonic for nearly 30 years as it was ...
Playboy Jazz Festival Has the Bowl Jumpin'
“Who's got some extra suntan oil, man?" asked singer and unflappably cool customer Kurt Elling from the stage Saturday at the 32nd annual Playboy Jazz Festival. Marking his first appearance at the festival, the sharply dressed Elling had just finished a spry cover of Joe Jackson's “Steppin' Out," and the temperatures were climbing. “You look good ...
Simon & Garfunkel Come Together for Unexpected Mrs. Robinson
Hollywood's A-List turns out to celebrate Mike Nichols at AFI tribute The ambiance at the Sony Pictures Studios soundstage, where Judy Garland once walked down the Yellow Brick Road, had a couple of differences from the Academy Awards: The tribute for the 78-year-old was more intimate and, as Helen Mirren said while waiting for her car ...
Oscar and Frank
Lately, I've been listening to Oscar Peterson's album A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra, recorded in Paris in May 1959. This was one of the first albums Peterson recorded with his new trio partner, drummer Ed Thigpen, who replaced guitarist Herb Ellis; bassist Ray Brown remained. As a fellow Frank Sinatra fan - particularly of his classic ...
Charlie O's June Jazz
Doug Mac Donald Trio With John Heard, bass and Roy McCurdy, drums June 14th John Altman Quartet June 15th Latin Jazz Louie Cruz Beltran Quartet June 16th Janis Mann Quartet June 17th Scotty Barnhart, Trumpet John Heard Trio John Heard, ...
