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Spinal Tap Break out Classics on Unwigged & Unplugged Tour
The men of Spinal Tap went costume-free last night at Southern Californias Grove of Anaheim, but Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer had no trouble getting into character. Singing Tap classics as well as material from A Mighty Wind and Waiting for Guffman, the trio offered pitch-perfect parodies of arena-rock excess and folk-revival earnestness on ...
Jeff Beck Hits Strat-Sphere at the el Rey
Jeff Beck guitar legend has jaws dropping and eyes popping Tuesday at the El Rey. In the age of “Guitar Hero," in which anyone with a few hundred bucks to spend on a video-game system can feel like a world-class shredder in a matter of minutes, what's the real deal still have to offer? For one, ...
Generations Band, Featuring Jimmy Cobb and Eric Alexander, Returns to Yoshi’S SF on Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 & 7
Two sets Wednesday night and “Battle of the Combos” Competition Finals on Thursday (San Francisco, CA) The Generations Band, an all-star sextet featuring Jimmy Cobb, Eric Alexander, Andrew Speight, David Hazeltine and Ray Drummond, will make its return to Yoshi’s San Francisco for two nights of special event concerts on Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 and ...
2009 Art & Jazz Festival on the Redondo Beach Pier
The new free spring event will offer a wonderful variety of artisans and jazz ensembles along the Redondo Beach pier. Attendees can shop and stroll to the sounds of jazz and waves. The free two-day event will feature jazz artists Scott Martin, Mark Shapiro & El Blammo, The Swingsations, Karl Grossman, Thelonious Dub, Abe Lagrimas, Jr., ...
Warner Bros. Celebrates Hollywood's Jazz Age
The cycle of gangster movies launched by Warner Bros. in the early 1930s often included scenes in speakeasies with anonymous musicians in the background. Anatole Litvak's Blues in the Night (1941) and Jack Webb's Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), which were released this month by Warners on DVD, reversed the perspective. These are Warner gangster pictures told ...
Saturday Nite Jazz in the Southland
Today's Jazz Events in The Southland Melissa Morgan Quartet 8:00 pm Spazio Sherman Oaks The Rat Pack - Live at the Sands 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm Orange County Performing Arts Center Costa Mesa Tony Martin 8:00 pm Catalina Bar ...
Playboy Jazz Festival 2009 Ramps Up
Jazz bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding and soul/funk outfit Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are among the seven acts making their debut appearance at the 2009 Playboy Jazz Festival. Now in its 31st year, the annual festival will be held June 13-14 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Back for his 28th year as master of ceremonies ...
Paul Williams to Lead ASCAP
Multihyphenate Paul Williams has been elected chairman and prexy of the songwriters rights org ASCAP. Williams will succeed Marilyn Bergman, who announced her resignation as after 15 years at the helm of ASCAP earlier this month. Williams, who has been an ASCAP board member for the past eight years and vice chairman for two years, was ...
SAG and Studios Reach Tentative Deal
Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract for the union's 120,000 members. Sources close to the talks say the union's negotiating task force will be briefed today on the proposed agreement, which is expected to be voted on by SAG's 71-member national board ...
Warner, Universal Set Music Deal
Warner Bros. has brokered a deal that hands administrative rights to all of its movie and TV music to Universal Music Publishing Group. Deal essentially puts UMPG in control of seeking out royalties for catalog and future tunes produced for Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. TV, Lorimar Prods., Castle Rock and New Line. That includes music ...
