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Neal Hefti Former Big Band Trumpeter, Arranger and Composer Dies
Neal Hefti, a former big band trumpeter, arranger and composer who worked with Woody Herman and Count Basie and later composed the memorable themes for the movie “The Odd Couple" and the campy hit TV series “Batman," has died. He was 85. Hefti died Saturday at his home in Toluca Lake, said his son, Paul. He ...
Jazz Pianist Rob Mullins to Headline Denver Amphitheatre
Los Angeles CA --Jazz pianist, recording artist, and educator Rob Mullins will headline the Grand Opening of the new City Hall Event Center in Denver, CO on October 18, 2008. Mullins, a former Denver resident who released his first five albums in Colorado, will make his first appearance in Colorado in 25 years for Denver nightclub ...
Jazz! Strike up the Bland
The sax player and the Brazilian chamber group explore the works of Darius Milhaud and Heitor Villa-Lobos in an uneven performance at Royce Hall. Make a poet a diplomat and good may come of it. France sent the great humanist writer Paul Claudel to Brazil during World War I, and food found its way from South ...
Gone with the Ages the Coconut Grove
The Ambassador Hotel lesson Demolishing such iconic buildings not only destroys history, it wastes resources. By Diane Keaton Last week, I drove past the 22-acre vacant lot once known as the Ambassador Hotel. As I looked at the rubble of our lost cause, I pulled over, sat back and gave in to ...
Big Band Fiesta Draws Latin Lovers
Plus, Matt Slocum, Ernie Watts, Wolfgang Schalk and other jazz highlights Ken Postons Los Angeles Jazz Institute has a habit of throwing weekend-long bashes featuring scads of big bands, and sometimes it seems there aint a big band around that Poston hasnt corralled into whatever venue hes managed to book. Theres always a theme, too this ...
A Half-Century of McCabe's Guitar Shop
Little shop of adorers Hanging from the walls are a saz, a charango, a bouzouki and dozens of djembes, didgeridoos and kalimbas, along with hundreds of ukuleles, mandolins, banjos and guitars variously stringed, shaped, amplified and not. A couple of harp guitars (the baroque axe Robbie Robertson played in The Last Waltz), a 19th-century varietal, and ...
Howard Hewett Releases A Cherished First Christmas CD
Howard Hewett, who has been bringing us R&B for years, is inviting his fans to join him for Christmas this year. Howard Hewett's Christmas CD is set to release October 14th, 2008 on Groove Records, bringing back the warmest of memories and classic Christmas songs. Howard Hewett's Christmas CD combines Hewett's soulful warm R&B voice with ...
Ragfest 2008 Hits Fullerton on October 25-26
RagFest, Southern California's own annual festival of ragtime music, is here! The event, sponsored by Friends of Jazz, unfolds in downtown Fullerton on October 25 and 26, offering a full weekend of live ragtime music, with a variety of piano music, instrumentals and vocals. Steamers Jazz Club, 138 W. Commonwealth Ave., is festival headquarters and the ...
Lloyd Thaxton TV Dance Show Host, Dies at 81
What came to be 'The Lloyd Thaxton Show' began in 1959 and was nationally syndicated in 1964. Amid the dancing teenagers and guest appearances was his unique brand of zany humor. Lloyd Thaxton, the host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s who memorably injected a visual zaniness into his daily rock ...
Saxophonia to Perform at First Annual Marin Art and Jazz Festival October 19th
On Sunday October 19 2008 at 2pm, Saxophonia, a presentation of Miraflores Academie’s two premiere performance groups, will perform at the first Marin Art and Jazz Festival at the San Rafael Corporate Center 750 Lindaro Street, in downtown San Rafael. Saxophonia, directed and accompanied by Marcia Miget, consists of two of the ensembles of Bay Area-based ...
