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Parker Guitars Announces General Availability of the Adrian Belew Signature Fly Guitar
Cutting Edge Construction and High-End Components Make This One of the Most Advanced Guitars Ever Built Chicago, IL. — March 5, 2009 — Parker Guitars, a leader in innovation and originality within the music world, announced today the addition of the Adrian Belew Signature Fly® to their line of electric guitars. Designed from the ground up ...
Bachsters Meet Bopsters for a Second Show!
Hello Friends, the miraculous flexibility of the web has once again illuminated the possibilities of this new world. Dig this, yesterday we had the idea of expanding the music and as a result of your enthusiastic and kind response we’re going for a SECOND SHOW!!! Hahaahhhaa, we’re on! So, to recap—our String Consort group, which ...
Adios Nonino and Astor Piazzolla: Shipwrecks, motorcycles and a used Bandoneon in Manhattan
By Marcello Pedrolo In order to understand Astor Piazzolla completely, we must be able to get in touch with ourselves first. Let Piazzolla’s music talk to your soul and explore at the same time the intriguing brakes, the different paces of emotions and intensity of the lead against the rest of the instruments; lows and highs, ...
2009 Playboy Jazz Festival
Line up for the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival June 13 & 14, 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl, presented in cooperation with the L.A. Philharmonic Association. SATURDAY 13 2:20- 11:00 PM The Neville Brothers Remembering the Miles Davis Classic Kind of Blue @50 Jimmy Cobb's So What Band Featuring Wallace ...
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette Play UCLA Live
The BBC called the greatest piano trio in contemporary jazz, the jazz trio against which all others are measured. One night only, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette play at UCLA's Royce Hall. Wed. March 11th at 8PM. Monica Mancini the glamorous vocal equivalent to diamonds flashing, says the New York Times, performs Sat. March ...
Bill Cunliffe's "The Blues & the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party - March 5
Bill Cunliffe “The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party at April Williams' Upstairs at Vitellos Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar ...
Frame After Frame Hollywood's Golden Age in Soundtracks
Hollywood’s “Golden Age” was, of course, black and white. What gave the pre-World War II talkies their “color” was their ornate, even gaudy, music. Many of those scores were the product of migr composers and their American followers, who wrote in a reactionary tuneful, tonal, lush Wagnerian style. Although the language of a Europe that was ...
Jazzing Round L.A.
Jazz Music Los Angeles A rare Cohen showing After a years-long touring hiatus, the wittily morose singer- songwriter Leonard Cohen returns to U.S. stages. Catch him and other artists at these upcoming shows across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. Nokia Theatre Leonard Cohen April 10 (Mon.) Club Nokia ...
Playboy Jazz Fest Announces Lineup
Quincy Jones had a twofold purpose in taking the podium at Wednesday's announcement of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival. First he continued his advocacy for a secretary of the arts Cabinet position; second he introduced 23-year-old Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom he has taken under his wing over the past few years. Rodriguez, who performed ...
'Ella' at Laguna Playhouse
A diva despite her mild temperament, Ella Fitzgerald proudly wore the title of “first lady of song.” Yet she seemed comfortable in the spotlight only when she could lose herself in music. Give her a microphone and she could fill a room with clarion sunshine, but her stage presence tended to subside with the orchestra. In ...
