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Tribute to Tommy Dorsey and More Around L.A.
Benny Golson, Jazz Summit II, Cecelia Coleman nad other jazz around L.A. Benny Golson still sounds fine, too, and hes finishing up his umpteenth Jazz Bakery stand this Friday and Saturday. And check out Catalinas on Tuesday, where theres a Tribute to Tommy Dorsey. Getting that utterly perfect, sweet trombone will be Bill Watrous; indeed, hell ...
Hot House Swing Ensemble Got Tube
The Hot House Swing Ensemble, a favorite of Marin County for their vintage jazz, bringing the classic sounds of early jazz to contemporary audiences. With a 7 piece band and harmony vocals, they reprise the best loved tunes of the big band era including seldom heard renditions of the jive, hep and hot music of the ...
Clint Eastwood Nominated for Golden Globes Best Film Score
Clint Eastwood is riding high. Giving a first time screen writer a boost, in June green lighting Gran Torino, then beginning shooting in July. The film just released and this morning Eastwood was nominated for Best Song for the film as well as Best Original Score for his motion picture soundtrack the Changeling. The other nominations: ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet at Disney Hall
The veteran sax man and his combo treat a Disney Hall audience to an improvisational tour de force. Miriam Adam, the clarinetist for Grammy-winning quintet Imani Winds, sounded almost apologetic as she back-introduced the ensemble's first song in its opening set for Wayne Shorter, an evocative, dramatic piece from Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Clad in a ...
Celine Dion's Taking Chances Tour at Staples Center
It's a no-brainer why Celine Dion's Taking Chances tour is shaping up as one of the highest-grossing North American concert attractions of 2008. Think about it: As a nation were going to have to pony up several hundred-billion dollars and hope it might halt the ever-deepening economic meltdown. Feel-good factor for that outlay? Zilch. But for ...
Grammy Awards Blow Their Own Horn with Nomination Concert
The Grammy Museum will open downtown this weekend, but on Wednesday night the venerable awards brand was trying to prove it's no relic in this “American Idol" era. The nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday not at some early-morning news conference -- as they have been in the past -- but sprinkled ...
John Beasley "All-Star" Quartet at the Jazz Bakery
Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, Jeff “Tain" Watts and John Beasley play the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles December 4-6, 2008 Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock's Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record ...
San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center Announces Its First Major Exhibition
Rare art and photographs from the Fillmore Jazz Era of the 1940s and 1950s highlight free exhibit. SAN FRANCISCO (Dec. 2)-- The Jazz Heritage Center, San Franciscos only permanent cultural and educational complex dedicated to jazz, announced that it will be holding its first exhibition, Harlem of the West Revisited. Beginning Dec. 6, 2008 and lasting ...
Grammy Museum Opens with Hands-on Approach
The Recording Academy's Grammy Museum doesn't officially open its doors to the public until Saturday, but a Tuesday morning preview revealed the new facility to be a heavily interactive exhibition hall, one whose emphasis is not on past trophy winners or even historic artifacts but instead on music education and appreciation. The 30,000-square-foot space, which comes ...
L.A. Live Turns On the Lights
The $2.5-billion entertainment district across from Staples Center in downtown L.A. celebrates its opening today. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne writes: The project is relentlessly focused on creating its own wholly separate commercial universe: a brighter, more strategically frenzied place than the world outside its doors. In its first phase, L.A. Live unveiled a large plaza, ...
