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Dogfish Head Bitches Brew Honors Miles Davis

June 6, 2010

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has announced the release of Bitches Brew to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary jazz-funk-rock-fusion masterpiece Bitches Brew by jazz legend Miles Davis. Delawares Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has created its own Bitches Brew a bold, dark beer thats a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer ...

JazzPOP Outdoor Concerts Return to the Hammer in August

June 9, 2010

Featuring Darren Johnston Quintet, Bennie Maupin Ensemble, Industrial Jazz Group, & Nicole Mitchell Trio Los Angeles - The Hammer Museum's free JazzPOP music series celebrates its fifth year of outdoor concerts in the Hammer courtyard. Veteran artists and bold new voices perform original, adventurous music that combines inventive composition with improvisational prowess and propulsive groove. Musician ...

Minor Key to 'Tonight Show' Tune

June 9, 2010

“The Tonight Show" gets its fourth theme song in a little more than a year, as new music director Rickey Minor joins the late-night talker on Monday. Minor will immediately put his stamp on the Jay Leno gabfest with a new theme, along with an entirely new band. For those keeping track at home: Leno signed ...

Alex Cline's Band of the Moment at the Hammer Museum on July 27th

June 9, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 FREE! Led by drummer-percussionist-composer Alex Cline, Band of the Moment is a uniquely eclectic ensemble of Los Angeles creative jazz all-stars who represent a full spectrum of modern jazz music's more creative and compelling developments over the last few decades. ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Seating is on a ...

Enter Music Publishing Hits a Record During Drummies Voting 2010

June 9, 2010

San Jose, Calif.,--DRUM! Magazine, one of Enter Music Publishings hip, drum/percussion magazines with worldwide distribution, saw record-breaking vote totals in the just-concluded balloting for their annual drumming awards, the Drummies. According to surveymonkey.com, approximately 6500 drummers posted 120,000 votes in the 40 categories that comprise The Drummies. The Drummies, now in its fifteenth year, is the ...

Jazz Still a Passing Fad

June 9, 2010

Jazz musicians improvise for a living. In L.A., as in the rest of the country, where fewer and fewer arts patrons seek jazz as a music of first choice, players improvise ways to find work. Los Angeles has been important to jazz, and vice versa, since the musics beginnings. New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who ...

The Miles Davis Online Interview: Lindones Silveira

June 2, 2010

As of a few days ago I am a new fan of artist Lindones Silveira. I stumbled onto a terrific Miles Davis painting and consequently spent the next few hours pouring over his art galleries. The Blues Jazz collection stands out as a favorite, but his sets on women, urban scenes and abstract art are also ...

S.D. Teen a 'Jazz Piano Phenom' - Pianist Chase Morrin, 16, Leads Bands and Plays in Others, Composes, Teaches and Takes AP Courses

June 2, 2010

It's a good thing San Diego piano wiz Chase Morrin has the boundless energy of a teenager. Anyone with less drive and stamina might get tired just contemplating his nonstop schedule, let alone trying to pull it off. Morrin, 16, is the leader of his own jazz trio and his five-man Latin Connection. He is also ...

Too Much Kind of Blue? The Case for Giving Overexposed Masterworks a Rest

June 1, 2010

*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well! Richard Williams recently wrote a book called The Blue Moment: Miles Davis Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. I haven't yet read Mr. Williams study of the great jazz trumpeters best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going ...

Gerry Mulligan - "Walking Shoes" (1956)

June 1, 2010