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L.A. Jazz Collective Fall Festival Saxophone Summit 2008
The biggest jazz event of the week has to be the L.A. Jazz Collectives Fall Festival, a three-night, four-venue bash that begins Friday at the Pasadena Jazz Institute. Headlines with the Josh Aguilar Group, Damon Zick and Friends, the Joe Bagg Quintet (with trumpeter Ron Stout) and the Steve Cotter Group; then Saturday at PJI again ...
Irving Gertz Composer for Sci-Fi Films
Irving Gertz, a film and television composer who contributed music to 1950s science-fiction films such as It Came From Outer Space and The Incredible Shrinking Man and to 1960s TV series such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, has died. He was 93. Gertz died Friday at his home in West Los Angeles, said ...
KCRW Taps Jason Bentley as Music Director
Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW-FM (89.9) has tapped Jason Bentley as music director. Bentley, a longtime DJ at the station, will replace Nic Harcourt, who announced last week that he would be stepping down at the end of the month. Bentley will step in as the host of KCRW's flagship music program, Morning Becomes Eclectic, ...
Academy Disqualifies 'Dark' Score
Music cue sheet lists five names as composers The score for “The Dark Knight" has been disqualified by the executive committee of the Academy music branch. Formal letters to that effect are expected to go out this week to composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, who collaborated on the music. Their previous collaboration, ...
Masters at the Greek & Sharp's Gathering at the Bakery
MASTERS AT THE GREEK WITH ELLIS MARSALIS, MCCOY TYNER, MARC RIBOT, BRAD MEHLDAU There is a lot of jazz this week, but if we have to pick a fave its Jesse Sharps Gathering at the Jazz Bakery this Sunday. Jesse, a key player in the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, released The Gathering a few years back, ...
Four Bay Area Female Songwriters Concert in a Round
Local songwriters Daphna Rahmil, Leanne Weatherly, Lori Ludy, and Jane perform their original material in a concert scheduled for Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mission City Coffee Roasting Company in Santa Clara. The Mission City is located at 2221 The Alameda in Santa Clara. Phone (408) 261-2221. Admission is free and those ...
The Swing Solution Big Band Dinner Dance
What better way to spend a Friday, end-of-the-work week, evening? A delicious, inexpensive dinner and dancing to the 17-piece Swing Solution Big Band. The evening is part of a series of Friday evening dances with the band at the Santa Clara American Legion Hall featuring an evening of dancing to the one of the best dance ...
Jay Fiondella Flamboyant Owner of Chez Jay Santa Monica Landmark Dies
Jay Fiondella, the flamboyant owner of Chez Jay, the scruffy restaurant-bar he opened almost 50 years ago that became a Santa Monica landmark and something of a shrine to his exploits as an adventurer, has died. He was 82. Fiondella died Nov. 6 at a Santa Monica care facility after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, ...
John Beasley & "All-Star" Quartet at Ronnie Scott's, London Nov 24-26, 2008
Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, Jeff “Tain” Watts and John Beasley 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 by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to play music ...
Beck and Jenny Lewis Open Club Nokia
Many music fans get serious about pop through a love affair with a club. Whether it was a legendary spot or just the dive down the street from the dorm, such a place provides more than just loud sound and overpriced beer. People get attached to the strangest things in clubs -- memorably awful bathrooms, decorously ...
