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Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum
Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum: Political activism, music biz lessons and what about another Rage album? Prior to Tuesday evening, when Tom Morello was last seen on stage in Los Angeles, he was spearheading a benefit for various homeless advocacy groups at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood, performing with the likes of Wayne Krame and ...
Tamela D'Amico - Got a Little Story by Lisa Steinberg
Q: Your album Got A Little Story comes out on April 14th, will you be doing anything special for the big release? D'Amico: Actually we are still in the process of planning something right now, but it is unclear as to what coast I will be on to do it or if we are ...
Jazz Musings in the 90210
Jazz Music Los Angeles Jenny Scheinman The Little Room at Largo 366 La Cienega Ave, Los Angeles On the heels of a pair of acclaimed releases in 2008, the beguiling jazz violinist performs backed by Nels Cline and the suspiciously pseudonymous fellow guitarist Moe Hawk. Apr 01, 2009 ...
Idan Raichel Project Israeli Keyboardist at the Orpheum Theatre
The Israeli keyboardist-composer blends rhythms and sounds from around the globe into a zesty world music stir fry. An Ethiopian Jew by birth, Israeli keyboardist-composer Idan Raichel is a man with a mission: bringing to the Tel Aviv scene a younger generation's music that blends a bold variety of Middle Eastern, African, Indian, Latin American and ...
Elton John and Billy Joel in Concert
Saturday night's alright for the piano men, who gave fans a three- hour show full of hits. Partnerships between pop superstars usually deliver less than the sum of their talents. Nostalgia isn't always enough, but a surprising collaboration between Elton John and Billy Joel, who play nothing more than their best-known hits from the '70s and ...
Tonight: Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman in Conversation at USC
One of the coolest things about L.A.'s pop life is the presence of everyday demigods, everywhere. So many key contributors to contemporary music's canon hang out at the local Coffee Bean or have their kids in your preschool. Count Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman among my favorites -- goddesses with no pretense and unflagging energy. Best ...
Maurice Jarre, Composer for 'Lawrence of Arabia,' Dies
Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who captured the majesty of the desert in his music for Lawrence of Arabia and wrote the haunting “Lara's Theme" in his score for Doctor Zhivago, has died. He was 84. Jarre died over the weekend in Los Angeles, where he had lived for decades, Bernard Miyet, a friend of the composer ...
Chick Corea/ John McLaughlin and the Five Peace Band
REVIEW Back in the era when Chick Corea and John McLaughlin pushed jazz-rock to its virtuosic limits, the musicians assembled before a packed Royce Hall Thursday night would have been called a “supergroup." Even the name Five Peace Band evokes that time, when “peace, love and understanding" was a deeply felt rallying cry, not ...
Bound for Hell, or Glory, at the Cinematheque
Not since I saw Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner go at each other in an excellent production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a couple of years ago have I experienced a night of live theater quite as riveting as the three-way cage match between David Carradine, Haskell Wexler, and the audience the other night following ...
Tateng Katindig Trio Live One Night Only April 2, 2009 Upstairs at Vitello's New Jazz Room
Pianist Eduardo Katindig Jr. known to his family, friends and the music circle as “Tateng" is making a rare appearance April 2nd 2009 with his Trio ,vocals April Williams, in “The Hippest new Jazz Room in Studio City" and making waves as a Jazz pianist in the Los Angeles area. He was born in the Philippines ...
