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Jazz Los Angeles

Jazz Los Angeles

Jazz Music in L.A. Saturday Pharoah Sanders Quartet @ Jazz Bakery 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City This saxophonist's 1960s musical forays with John Coltrane are the stuff of jazz legend--furious, creative innovation that led audiences to new and unfamiliar musical... Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble @ Warner Grand Theatre ...

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2009 Playboy Jazz Festival

2009 Playboy Jazz Festival

Line up for the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival June 13 & 14, 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl, presented in cooperation with the L.A. Philharmonic Association. SATURDAY 13 2:20- 11:00 PM The Neville Brothers Remembering the Miles Davis Classic Kind of Blue @50 Jimmy Cobb's So What Band Featuring Wallace ...

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette Play UCLA Live

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette Play UCLA Live

The BBC called the greatest piano trio in contemporary jazz, the jazz trio against which all others are measured. One night only, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette play at UCLA's Royce Hall. Wed. March 11th at 8PM. Monica Mancini the glamorous vocal equivalent to diamonds flashing, says the New York Times, performs Sat. March ...

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Bill Cunliffe's "The Blues & the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party - March 5

Bill Cunliffe's "The Blues & the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party - March 5

Bill Cunliffe “The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party at April Williams' Upstairs at Vitellos Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar ...

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Frame After Frame Hollywood's Golden Age in Soundtracks

Hollywood’s “Golden Age” was, of course, black and white. What gave the pre-World War II talkies their “color” was their ornate, even gaudy, music. Many of those scores were the product of migr composers and their American followers, who wrote in a reactionary tuneful, tonal, lush Wagnerian style. Although the language of a Europe that was ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazzing Round L.A.

Jazzing Round L.A.

Jazz Music Los Angeles A rare Cohen showing After a years-long touring hiatus, the wittily morose singer- songwriter Leonard Cohen returns to U.S. stages. Catch him and other artists at these upcoming shows across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. Nokia Theatre Leonard Cohen April 10 (Mon.) Club Nokia ...

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Playboy Jazz Fest Announces Lineup

Playboy Jazz Fest Announces Lineup

Quincy Jones had a twofold purpose in taking the podium at Wednesday's announcement of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival. First he continued his advocacy for a secretary of the arts Cabinet position; second he introduced 23-year-old Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom he has taken under his wing over the past few years. Rodriguez, who performed ...

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News: Performance / Tour

'Ella' at Laguna Playhouse

A diva despite her mild temperament, Ella Fitzgerald proudly wore the title of “first lady of song.” Yet she seemed comfortable in the spotlight only when she could lose herself in music. Give her a microphone and she could fill a room with clarion sunshine, but her stage presence tended to subside with the orchestra. In ...

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News: Technology

Ticketmaster: AEG May Cancel if Merger Succeeds

Ticketmaster: AEG May Cancel if Merger Succeeds

Ticketmaster's chief executive sought Thursday to allay antitrust fears over the ticket seller's planned merger with concert promoter Live Nation by revealing that a major venue operator has threatened to cancel its contract if the merger goes through. The revelation, made before a House subcommittee examining the proposed merger for antitrust concerns, was meant to suggest ...

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No Doubt Shows Raise Doubt About Ticketmaster

There’s no question that No Doubt is planning to close its reunion tour on its old Orange County turf with performances July 31 and Aug. 1 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. But those shows raise the question of how efficiently Ticketmaster is following through on its recent agreement with the New Jersey attorney general’s office ...


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