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Celebrate Great Jazz Experienced in Local Hangs
Jack Sheldon was hot at Jax last Thursday. Jennifer Leitham swung the bassline like mad and plunged into these beautifully dense solos with great washes of chords or hanging, aching notes Drummer Dick Weller kicked it up crazily as Joe Bagg finessed coherent melodies (or chunks of Monk) from a piano last tuned during the Eisenhower ...
Irving Bush Trumpeter Played with Big Bands L.A. Philharmonic Passes
Irving Bush, a trumpeter with a broad range of musical interests, including jazz and classical, who later in life served as personnel manager for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has died. He was 78. Bush died Jan. 8 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from multiple myeloma, according to Kazue McGregor, the Philharmonic librarian. ...
At Whisky a Go-Go, Applause for Co-Founder Elmer Valentine
They came to West Hollywood on Monday night not to bury one of the celebrated figures in L.A. music's storied past, but to praise him. A few hundred family members, friends, former employees and just plain fans of Whisky A Go-Go co-founder Elmer Valentine, who died at age 85 in December, packed the venerated club he ...
Raging Free Jazz Drummer Weasel Walter Upcoming Live Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe
Hyperactive free jazz drummer Weasel Walter will be spreading his intense style of spontaneous musical interaction in many venues across the U.S. and Europe this spring in the company of many notable improvisers like Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and Marco Eneidi. His upcoming release out March 15, 2009 is a trio record with West ...
Vibrato Grill Jazz...Etc. Present Corky Hale and Her Jazz Trio
Vibrato Grill JazzEtc. Presents CORKY HALE, Jazz Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist and Her Jazz Trio Featuring Jazz Guitarist, JOHN CHIODINI Vibrato Grill JazzEtc. 2930 N. Beverly Glen Circle; Bel Air, CA 90077-1724 Sunday, March 1, 2009 from 6:30 9:30 p.m. “More than a triple threat!" --The Los Angeles Times “A musical tornado. ...
Remembrance: A Night at the Whisky with Elvis Costello
Everybody at Mondays tribute to Elmer Valentine, the co-founder of the Whisky a Go Go who died in December at age 85, had a story about a favorite moment they'd spent in the venerable West Hollywood club. Mine stems from Elvis Costellos first L.A. appearance at the club, back in November 1977. Id spent five weeks ...
M83 Gets the L.A. Phil Treatment
If you've ever imagined how that wicked drum intro to M83's “Don't Save Us From the Flames" would sound on a timpani, save March 7 as date night with your favorite Molly Ringwald doppelgnger. The Anthony Gonzales woozy French electronica band is ganging up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall for a dual-headlining set ...
Is There a California Music?
Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California The 25th Focus! festival at the Juilliard School is geared toward answering one overriding question: Is there a “California music,” to quote the festival’s artistic director, Joel Sachs, and “if so, what is it?” In other words, are there characteristics of contemporary music from ...
Leslie Uggams Puts Her Own Stamp on Lena Horne in 'Stormy Weather'
ON A ‘STORMY’ PATH: “This is really all about Lena,” Leslie Uggams says. “I’m not doing a copy of Lena. There is only one Lena Horne. But I’m bringing the essence of Lena.” Both entertainers overcame racism and broke barriers for African Americans. Uggams is portraying Horne at the Pasadena Playhouse. Leslie Uggams and Lena Horne ...
The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1
Henry Rollins, music director Mark “Mr. Shovel" Sovel and DJ Darren Revell talk about the shutdown of the L.A. music station. About three months ago, while I was driving home from LAX on a Saturday night, the car stereo was barely on, my mind was far away, and I just wanted to get home. Then the ...
