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Hollywood Bowl Announces Schedule; Changes up Jazz Leadership
After being first reported last month on our sister blog Culture Monster, the Hollywood Bowl has now dotted the I's and crossed the T's on its 2009 season, which was officially announced this morning. In addition to highlighting previously unannounced shows with the Beastie Boys (Sept. 24) and John Fogerty as part of the Bowl's annual ...
Altovise Davis Dies Widow of Sammy Davis Jr.
Altovise Davis, the widow of Rat Pack singer and dancer Sammy Davis Jr., died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke, her business partner, Barrett LaRoda, said. She was 65. Davis was surrounded at the Los Angeles hospital by friends and family, including her son, Manny Davis. Trained as an actor and dancer, ...
Raul Malo Sings Meltingly
Musical styles simmer together happily in the melting pot of this ex-Maverick's output. In the midst of what essentially was a dance party Thursday night at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, singer Raul Malo set down the twangy guitar he'd been strumming joyfully for an hour, dismissed the members of his five-piece band -- ...
Rickie Lee Jones@largo at the Cornet
The folk-pop singer has become quite the L.A. live maven. Jones in recent months, holding down an Echoplex residency and revisiting the hits like “Chuck E.'s in Love" that made her a favorite lady of the canyons. Rickie Lee Jones Saturday Mar 14 Largo at the Coronet 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., ...
'The Jazz Age' at Blank Theatre
The Blank Theatre Company’s signature charms — quirky characters, witty sets and the deft use of music — are on full, if flawed, view in Allan Knee’s “The Jazz Age.” This soapy but absorbing portrait of the Lost Generation’s F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway features a Tin Pan Alley score by a live ...
Playboy Jazz Festival Announces Lineup
The Neville Brothers, Sharon Jones and the Dap- Kings, the Wayne Shorter Quartet and Kenny G are among the performers slated to appear at the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival, June 13-14 at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to the Neville Brothers and Sharon Jones, Saturday's lineup will feature a 50th anniversary salute to Miles Davis' ...
Greek Theatre and Gibson Amphitheatre Announce Summer Series
The Greek Theatre and the Gibson Amphitheatre have announced their forthcoming summer concert series for 2009, along with an expanded edition of their Premiere Marquee Club perks package. Among the notable headliners this season at the Greek are alt-country siren Neko Case, chamber-folk auteur Andrew Bird, dapper soul man John Legend and globe-trotting folk veterans Gipsy ...
Feds Demand Prison for Guns N' Roses Uploader
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are pursuing a 6-month prison term for a Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty in December to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release Guns N' Roses tracks, according to court documents. Kevin Cogill was arrested last summer at gunpoint and charged with uploading nine tracks of the Chinese Democracy album to ...
Defense Rests in Phil Spector Murder Retrial
Phil Spector's defense attorney rested his case Thursday in the music producer's murder retrial involving the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler advised Spector of his right to testify, but he chose not to take the stand in his own defense. Attorney Doron Weinberg concluded with testimony from forensic psychologist ...
L.A. Area Jazz Gigs
JAZZ PERFORMANCES LOS ANGELES The SF Jazz Collective with Miguel Zenon Friday Mar 13/ 8:00 PM Saturday Mar 14/8:00 PM Sunday Mar 15/ 8:00 PM Price: $25-37 Music Style: Jazz, Latin Catalina Bar & Grill 6725 W Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Chick ...
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