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Interview with Composer/Multi-Woodwind Player Vinny Golia
So here is the first installment of my interview series of Southern California musicians who focus on 'Creative Music', or music that utilizes compositional elements and improvisational elements. I plan to interview as many musicians as I can, from longtime Angelenos, to up and coming players, as well as some recent transplants to Los Angeles, so ...
A 'Ring' Divided
The two leading singers in the L.A. Opera's staging of the Wagner tetralogy openly criticize the director for a production they see as flawed artistically and dangerous for performers. In a rare public airing of artistic differences, the two leading singers in the Los Angeles Opera's costly and ambitious staging of Wagner's “Ring" cycle have harshly ...
Review: Dave Fiuczynski at the Baked Potato
As the Baked Potato steams toward its massive 40th anniversary jazz festival next weekend, there was something perfect about East Coast guitarist Dave Fiuczynski's performance Thursday night. Revered as a home for musicians' musicians and those who love them, the Baked Potato is a cramped, warm little clubhouse hugging the 101 Freeway between Studio City and ...
Sonny Rollins, Nearly 80, Looks to the Future
Jazz's tenor sax titan brings his pianoless group to Walt Disney Concert Hall Sunday. “I was really blessed to be born when and where I was," Sonny Rollins says. In the mid-1950s, through the sheer gale force of his surging theme- and-variation solos, Sonny Rollins turned the tenor saxophone into jazz's iconic horn. Before Rollins, the ...
Los Lobos: Reborn in East L.A. for New Album Due Aug. 3
Los Lobos returned to their East L.A. roots in creating the new Tin Can Trust album thats been set for an Aug. 3 release on the Shout! Factory label. The long-running quintet set up shop in a gritty studio known mostly for recording underground punk and indie bands for its first album of original material in ...
Review: Jakob Dylan at the Wiltern
It couldn't have been by accident that the Wiltern Theatres stage lights were angled Thursday night so that Jakob Dylan's signature fedora rendered the upper part of his face obscured for much of his homecoming concert. For much of the supernaturally gripping material on his exceptional new Women + Country album deals with the shadowy parts ...
Live Review: James Taylor and Carole King at the Hollywood Bowl
James Taylor and Carole King made no effort to disguise their ages Thursday night at the Hollywood Bowl, where the two sixtysomething singers played the first of three dates on their Troubadour Reunion trek. The world tour which stops Tuesday at the Santa Barbara Bowl and wraps July 20 at the Honda Center in Anaheim comes ...
For Musicians, Economy is the Mother of Invention
Enterprising music makers are turning to the Internet and micro-financing through donations. Los Angeles singer and songwriter Sam Phillips turned up recently for a small-scale show at Hollywood's Hotel Caf. Playing for an intimate audience of several dozen, she was testing on a live audience new material she's been working on in her home recording studio. ...
Practice Concepts: Getting a Grasp on the 12 Keys
Feeling bogged down and overwhelmed with learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and modes in all 12 keys? Try this great practice idea I got from the great bassist, Putter Smith.Practice scales and arpeggios at the pace of one key a week. I thought this was a brilliant idea as it takes a big ...
Playboy Jazz Festival Gets Fans in the Spirit with Free Community Concert Featuring Oleta Adams, Sal Marquez and Lao Tizer at Warner Center Park, Sunday, June 6th, in Woodland Hills
Playboy Jazz Festival presents free community concert Sunday, June 6 in Woodland Hills For Southern California jazz fans, there's no better way to break through Los Angeles' annual June gloom than “Playboy Jazz in Warner Park," which returns to the Lou Bredlow Pavilion in Warner Center Park (located at 5800 Topanga Canyon Boulevard) on Sunday, June ...
