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Margo Reymundo Releases Pop & Jazz Hybrid CD "My Hearts Desire"
Los Angeles, CA-March 23, 2009---Margo Reymundo had a dream to release a collection of songs that would abundantly reflect who she was. With references to legendary figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn being made, any astute music listener can envision what Margo presents on her new recording. With the release of My Hearts Desire ...
Concord Releases "The Very Best of Prestige"
The new 2-CD set The Very Best Of Prestige Records, hits stores this week (March 24, 2009) on CD & digitally. The new 'must have' compilation celebrates the 60th anniversary of Prestige Records. The track list features; John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, and more. The entire collection is available ...
Stanford Lively Arts Tribute to Miles Davis Culminates with “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory,” April 18
To commemorate the half-century anniversary of Miles Davis’ legendary 1959 album Kind of Blue, Stanford Lively Arts—in a collaboration with Stanford Jazz Workshop and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH)—will present “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory” on Saturday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium. This unique concert will ...
"Louis & Keely" at the Geffen Playhouse
He’s an Italian American jack-in-the box with unerring instincts for scat and swing. She’s a pageboy bob with perfect pitch and a cool-as-a-cucumber delivery. Together, their lounge act diverted the casino herds in the 1950s, inspiring the Rat Pack and leading the way to Sonny & Cher. Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara, last year’s ...
Van Morrison Will Bring 'Astral Weeks' Show Back to California
The resurrection of Van Morrisons watershed 1968 album Astral Weeks in concert continues to expand with the Irish singers announcement of plans to bring it back to California in May for several more performances. Morrison will present the work in its reconfigured entirety at Berkeleys Greek Theatre on May 2 and 3 and then will return ...
Prosecutor: Spector Played 'Russian Roulette with the Lives of Women'
Urging jurors to convict Phil Spector of murder Monday. Prosecutor said the fatal shooting of an actress was the inevitable result of the legendary music producer’s “history of playing Russian roulette with the lives of women.” Referring to a string of women who testified, Deputy Dist. Atty. Truc Do said Spector had terrorized them with guns ...
College Television Awards Announced
Students from UCLA, American Film Institute, Cal State Northridge and Art Center College of Design are among the first-place winners. Six local students were among the first-place winners of the 30th annual College Television Awards, handed out Saturday night by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. Julie Sagalowsky and Josh C. Feldman of UCLA ...
Academy of Ancient Music at Segerstrom Hall
The ensemble performs Bach's six 'Brandenburg' Concertos. We don't normally think of Bach -- whose music is felt to have been touched by a divine spirit and always displayed transcendent intellect -- as a rite of spring. But as musicologists and early music specialists never tire in pointing out, dance is the motor that drove much ...
Play Dates Los Angeles
JAZZ MUSIC LOS ANGELES Cryptonights: Myra Melford and Be Bread, Alex Cline Continuation Quartet REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles The Los Angeles creative jazz label Cryptogramophone Records celebrates its 10- year anniversary and double CD release. Pianist Myra Melford leads Be ...
