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Playing Banjo Eased Oscar Stress for Steve Martin
Steve Martin says playing the banjo helped prepare him for his Oscar-hosting gig. The 64-year-old actor-writer-musician says performing live with the Steep Canyon Rangers made him feel comfortable on the Kodak Theatre stage at the Oscars. Martin says he wasn't sure why he wasn't nervous before co-hosting the March 7 Oscars with Alec Baldwin, but a ...
The Jazz Bakery Keeps Cooking
The Jazz Bakery is a nonprofit organization. To followers of the scene, that statement is a redundancy, of course. In Los Angeles, saying a jazz club doesn't make money is like saying a restaurant doesn't serve scrap iron. In 18 years as president and artistic director of the Jazz Bakery, Ruth Price has always known that ...
Actor Robert Culp Dies After Falling at His Hollywood Home
Actor Robert Culp, best known for his role as an international tennis star and globe-trotting secret agent in the hit 1960s television series “I Spy," died Wednesday morning after a fall at his Hollywood home. The 79-year-old actor was rushed to Queen of Angels hospital shortly after 11 a.m. after hitting his head while taking a ...
'The T.A.M.I. Show': A Pop Music Time Capsule
The 1964 concert never turned into the annual fundraiser it was envisioned as, but it did bring together the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys and James Brown, and now it's on DVD. “The T.A.M.I. Show," the fabled film document of an equally legendary 1964 concert in Santa Monica with the Rolling Stones, James Brown, ...
Christian Scott New Album Available Exclusively on iTunes
The anticipated new album from Concord Jazz star trumpeter Christian Scott is available now exclusively on iTunes, and available everywhere March 30th. Yesterday You Said Tomorrow was recorded at the renowned Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey by legendary engineer Rudy Van Gelder (John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock). ...
Caetano Veloso Will Open the Greek Theatres 2010 Season
Caetano Veloso is one of the greatest songwriters of the century: a master melodist, a lyricist who merges surreal imagery with a sense of history and a sense of humor, a singer whose voice radiates tenderness and supple swing and a musician who connects to traditional music, pop and jazz from all over. The New York ...
Witness: Michael Jackson Doctor Interrupted CPR
Michael Jackson's doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer's chaotic final moments. The explosive allegation that Dr. Conrad Murray may have tried to hide evidence is likely ...
Prosecutors Want Michael Jackson's Doctor's License Suspended
California prosecutors filed court papers seeking to suspend the medical license of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was charged last month in the death of Michael Jackson. When Murray was charged, the judge agreed he should be barred from administering anesthetics like the ones prosecutors said killed the pop star last year when he was in Murray's ...
The Voice of the Hollywood Bowl
Mark Ferber dies at 60; longtime production supervisor at the Hollywood Bowl. To thousands of concert-goers, Mark Ferber's voice was comfortingly familiar as he announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Hollywood Bowl." As a child, he bicycled to the Bowl to do his homework in the picnic areas he found so peaceful. He was hired ...
L.A. Band Tries to Cash in with Free Monthly Album
In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living. Wood and a bunch of other artists use the soundproofed space with an extra-high ceiling to create a new album every month. It's a staggering feat when you consider it means ...
