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Article: Live Review

Summertime Jazz: Still Alive and Swingin' in Los Angeles

by Chuck Koton
September 27, 2009

When the news hit that the Jazz Bakery's last shows (at least at its Culver City location) would take place at the end of May, I feared that a bleak summer lay ahead for Angeleno jazz lovers. Even the reassurances and optimism of the Bakery's long-time director, Ruth Price, about reopening at a new site, did ...

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Article: Album Review

Azar Lawrence: Prayer For My Ancestors

Read "Prayer For My Ancestors" reviewed by Chuck Koton

by Chuck Koton
May 2, 2009

Azar Lawrence is a man on a mission. His task: to express beautiful, healing music.At a young age, Lawrence was already touring and recording with jazz legends like Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis. Then, after recording several successful albums, including Bridge into a New Age (Prestige 1974) and Summer Solstice (Prestige 1975), ...

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L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'

by Chuck Koton
January 22, 2009

The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...

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Article: Profile

Sonny Fortune: Thank God For That Day Job

by Chuck Koton
July 2, 2008

With an auspicious name like Sonny Fortune, could there be any doubt that this man would find success and fulfillment down whatever path he chose to follow in life. Fortune-ately for jazz lovers, he focused his talent and energy on the saxophone. Fortune's destiny began at the beguine-ing; he was born at ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

Remembering Frank Morgan: Tears, Laughter and Music in Culver City

by Chuck Koton
January 17, 2008

Frank Morgan Memorial Celebration The Jazz Bakery Los Angeles (Culver City), CA January 5, 2008 2:00-5:30 P.M. A memorial celebration is always a bittersweet affair. There is an inescapable sadness over the passing of a friend, but there is also joy in remembering the spirit of the departed ...

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Article: Live Review

Azar Lawrence: Cookin' at the Jazz Bakery

by Chuck Koton
December 15, 2007

Azar Lawrence QuartetJazz BakeryCulver City, CANovember 25, 2007 For those jazz fans who have been wondering where Azar Lawrence has been since the late 70s, there is good news: He is alive and well and burnin' up clubs in the L.A. area again. After a too long detour out of ...

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Article: Live Review

Monterey Jazz Festival Turns 50

by Chuck Koton
November 29, 2007

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey Fairgrounds Monterey, California September 21-23, 2007It might be tough to get a minyan for a jazz performance in L.A., but it's easy up north where a record 45,000 jazz fans endured rain and mud that threatened to turn this annual jazz bacchanal into Woodstock Redux. ...

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Article: Live Review

David Liebman: Four Nights in Culver City

by Chuck Koton
November 16, 2007

David Liebman QuartetJazz BakeryCulver City, CaliforniaOctober 31 - November 3, 2007 Saxophone master David Liebman brought his eclectic style to the Jazz Bakery in Culver City and amply demonstrated the futility of applying labels to music. At times, Liebman is the progressive rocker who played with Ten Wheel Drive. At ...