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Guitarist Grant Geissman's New CD, "Cool Man Cool"
Grant Geissman Cool Man Cool April 21 Release Futurism Records 2054 After a long flirtation with smooth jazz, guitarist Grant Geissman went back to his jazzy roots and came up with the most personally satisfying statement of his career in 2006’s Say That!, his paean to the golden era of ...
Wally Marks Delevoper Made Room for the Jazz Bakery
Wally Marks, whose family real estate firm helped develop Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade and preserve the Helms Bakery building, has died. He was 78. Marks, who was also a philanthropist and human rights activist, died Monday of cancer at his West Los Angeles home, said his wife, Suzy. In 1956, his father founded the Beverly ...
Paul McCartney, Tom Hanks, Eric Idle, Tom Petty Salute George Harrison
Paul McCartney topped the star-studded turnout Tuesday in Hollywood for the unveiling of a Walk of Fame star for his former Fab Four band mate George Harrison. The ceremony that also drew such celebrity friends and admirers as Tom Hanks, Tom Petty, Eric Idle, Jeff Lynne, Joe Walsh, T-Bone Burnett and Harrison’s widow, Olivia, and their ...
Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets' Echoes of Ethnicity
Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets +2 ECHOES OF ETHNICITY Owl Studios / April 14 Release Change is in the air these days, and change has come to Derrick Gardner’s long-standing group The Jazz Prophets. After over 20 years as a sextet with a firm front line of Gardner, trumpet, his brother Vincent on trombone and ...
Marcus Miller to Play with Bob Sheppard, Alan Pasqua, Bernie Dresel, and More...
MARCUS MILLER, ALAN PASQUA, BOB SHEPPARD, BERNIE DRESEL, CHRIS TEDESCO, BOB MCCHESENEY, MATT HARRIS, SCOTT WHITFIELD AT THE HW JAZZ FESTIVAL Eight world-renowned jazz musicians will be playing together one time only at the 4th Annual Harvard Westlake Jazz Festival on April 18th. The “All Star Combo” will have Marcus Miller on bass, Bob Sheppard on ...
Rob Mullins Trio to Perform at Riordan Fellows Gala Fundraising Event
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Rob Mullins Trio will perform Saturday April 18 2009 from 7-11p.m. at the Riordan Fellows Gala Fundraising Event. The event will be held at the Beverly Hills Country Club. “We are honored to have such a famous and accomplished entertainer as Rob Mullins for our event" says Hao Hu, Riordan Gala Event ...
DCA Presents the Charles Mingus - Son of Watts - Musical Caravan Project - Part II
Los Angeles - The Charles Mingus - Son of Watts - Musical Caravan is a year-long tribute to the life and work of Charles Mingus, one of the most important figures in 20th Century American Music. The celebration began in September 2008 with the opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, and continued with the ...
Famous Record Producer Must Serve at Least 18 Years of a Mandatory Life Sentence
A Los Angeles jury convicted Phil Spector of second-degree murder Monday, making the legendary record producer who worked with the Beatles and a host of other pop stars the first celebrity found guilty of murder on Hollywood's home turf in at least 40 years. The verdict read in a tense, standing-room-only courtroom came six years and ...
Exclusive Universal Music Group Releases on "Record Store Day," April 18th
ON SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2008, HUNDREDS OF INDEPENDENTLY-OWNED MUSIC STORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL CELEBRATE “RECORD STORE DAY.” On this day, all of these stores will simultaneously link and act as one with the purpose of celebrating the culture and unique place that they occupy both in their local communities and nationally. This is the one ...
On-Location Film and TV Shoots in L.A. Hit Lowest Levels on Record
The recession and incentives from other states have caused location work in the region to fall to the lowest levels on record, a FilmL.A. report to be issued today shows. Location filming for movies and TV commercials on the streets of Los Angeles, once as prevalent as the corner taco truck, is rapidly fading to black. ...
