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Jazz Lives as UCLA Live Eliminates International Theater Festival
UCLA Live has officially extinguished the house lights on its signature international theater festival, eliminating theater from its 2010-11 schedule, announced Tuesday. The series will offer a reduced number of individual performances in dance, jazz, world music and more 47 this season, down from 85 performances last year. But the entire theater festival was a casualty ...
Sound Gets 3D Upgrade
Mixers and theaters alike moving ahead with upgrades. Iosono's Brian Slack, whose multispeaker system delivers so-called 7.1 sound, calls 5.1. one-dimensional. It's long been a rule of thumb that as moving images improve, sound has to improve with them. And love it or hate it, there's no denying that 3D adds visual information to a projected ...
Hollywood Bowl Summer Season Opens
People don't come to the annual Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and Opening Night concert expecting to hear, say, an entire symphony or a complete set by their favorite pop star. Or at least they shouldn't by now. The Hall of Fame concert is supposed to be like a platter of musical hors doeuvres, an event ...
William A. Fraker Hollywood Cinematographer
William A. “Bill" Fraker, a cinematographer who was nominated for six Academy Awards including for “Looking for Mr. Goodbar," “Heaven Can Wait" and “1941," died June 2nd at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 86 and had cancer. Fraker, a larger-than-life figure, was one of America's most respected cinematographers, known as much for the ...
The 'Soul' of a Remarkable High School Jazz Band
Anyone compiling a list of the all-time great funk masterminds would inevitably think of names such as James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone. One name that may not come as readily to most is Conrad O. Johnson, band director of the Kashmere Stage Band. As the new documentary “Thunder Soul" makes clear, Johnson and his ...
So Cal Hot Summer Jazz
Lee Ritenour with Dave Grusin Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, CA The jazz favorites who teamed on Ritenour's 2008 album “Amparo" take on Ritenour's latest, “Six String Theory," joined by fellow guitarists John Scofield, Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'. With Dianne Reeves. July 21st 8 p.m. Cassandra Wilson ...
2D Or Not 3D That is the Question
The process of converting 2D films to 3D has hit some serious speed bumps on the road to acceptance, but it will remain a key component of filmdom's march into 3D. That was the message emerging from a panel Thursday assembled by the Intl. 3D Society in association with the Visual Effects Society. Without mentioning the ...
Rico Belled - "The Pursuit of Comfort" - Now Available!
Rico Belled's debut album The Pursuit Of Comfort is now available. It features many great musicians: Jeff Kashiwa (Rippingtons), Katisse Buckingham (Yellowjackets), Dave Karasony (Rippingtons), Jeff Babko (James Taylor), Jonathan Dresel (Jimmy Kimmel Live) and many more. Stylistically ranging from Afro-Cuban to Brazilian Jazz, with some Funk and Weather Report thrown in, there are 10 original ...
Cuban Singer Silvio Rodriguez Dazzles at the Gibson Amphitheatre
Rodriguez is given multiple encores in a night of sublime music leaning more poetry than politics. Rodriguez set a graceful, warm tone with just a guitar and a few accompanists. Silvio Rodriguez, the great Cuban singer-songwriter who performed a dazzling set Thursday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre, has the type of lyrical and melodic gifts that ...
The Denise Donatelli Quartet Plays Charlie O's Jazz Club
Born in Allentown, Penn., Denise Donatelli was drenched in music from an early age. She has performed in jazz clubs and jazz festivals across the country. Her first CD, In the Company of Friends, was released in 2005 on the Jazzed Media label and her 2008 release, What Lies Within on the Savant Records label, debuted ...
