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Jazz Still a Passing Fad
Jazz musicians improvise for a living. In L.A., as in the rest of the country, where fewer and fewer arts patrons seek jazz as a music of first choice, players improvise ways to find work. Los Angeles has been important to jazz, and vice versa, since the musics beginnings. New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who ...
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Lindones Silveira
As of a few days ago I am a new fan of artist Lindones Silveira. I stumbled onto a terrific Miles Davis painting and consequently spent the next few hours pouring over his art galleries. The Blues Jazz collection stands out as a favorite, but his sets on women, urban scenes and abstract art are also ...
Too Much Kind of Blue? The Case for Giving Overexposed Masterworks a Rest
*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well! Richard Williams recently wrote a book called The Blue Moment: Miles Davis Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. I haven't yet read Mr. Williams study of the great jazz trumpeters best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going ...
MOCA: Dennis Hopper Double Standard
The actor's death casts a shadow over a retrospective of his work, opening July 11 at MOCA, but his close involvement with the event makes it a personal reflection of his role as an artist. Dennis Hopper was 'closely involved' in upcoming MOCA show, says museum director Jeffrey Deitch. There have been many tributes to renegade ...
Remembering Dennis Hopper, Photographer
A self-described compulsive creator, the late Dennis Hopper was as prolific behind a camera as in front of it. And not just making motion pictures, but still images, by the thousands. He photographed most avidly during the 1960s, chronicling the burgeoning L.A. art scene and its prime movers. His pictures have been included in virtually every ...
Betty Lavette Gets to the Soul of British Rock
Her 'Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook' puts a new spin on classics by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Who and more. The woman on stage was nearly 65, dancing across the boards in high heels and shaking her hips to an old Beatles song called “The Word." Except that Bettye LaVette was ...
Dennis Hopper: Photographs, 1961-1967
I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it's really these photographs, that kept me going creatively. - Dennis Hopper The Sixties In all their turbulence and revelation, have been documented many times over but the photographic recollections of actor/artist/director Dennis Hopper have set ...
Sidekick No More: Eubanks Starts Post-Leno Life
Kevin Eubanks ended his 15-year tenure as musical director of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Friday with a song, alone on acoustic guitar. It was Adoration, an original ballad flecked with classical filigree, and he gave it a warmly dignified calm. He seemed unhurried and introspective, already pulling away from the frenetic clamor of ...
Bandleader Kevin Eubanks Ends 18 Years with Leno
It's a wrap for Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks after 18 years backing up host Jay Leno. “I don't think we've ever had an argument," Leno said, bidding Eubanks farewell on Friday's show. “We've had a lot of fun." Eubanks, whose duties included comic sidekick to Leno as well as guitarist, had been aboard since Leno ...
Southern California Summer Festivals and Performances
A look at the wide array of musical offerings around Southern California this summer. June 12-13 The Playboy Jazz Festival The 32nd annual summer music party returns, with performances by Chick Corea, George Benson, Kurt Elling, Esperanza Spalding, Bobby Hutcherson, the Manhattan Transfer and more. The Hollywood Bowl ...
