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B.B. King Warms the Holidays at the Club Nokia
B.B.King plays the holiday season bright at the Los Angeles Club Nokia December 27th and 29th. His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to wear his crown well. At age 76, he is still light on his feet, singing and playing ...
Charlie Brown Christmas Live
Charlie Os has a solid seven straight nights of killer jazz music this week, every one a pick. If you can manage to do all your shopping in the vicinity of Victory and Woodman, you can just kinda pop in on your way home every night. (Theres a 7-Eleven nearby, a liquor store, always a yard ...
Sag Announces and the Real Race Can Now Begin
With this morning's announcement of the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, the “real" race for Oscar can now begin in earnest. Critics awards are nice and we are getting a steady diet of them every day, but it's the guild awards that tend to be a real barometer of the temperature of the race. ...
Brian Wilson Plays the Wiltern
Brian Wilson's latest album, That Lucky Old Sun, lives up to his legacy of symphonic and woozy California pop. Catch him and other artists at these upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. The Palladium Taste of Chaos Tour, Thursday, Feb. 14; Disturbed, Jan. 29 (Sat.) The Wiltern The ...
Tribute to Tommy Dorsey and More Around L.A.
Benny Golson, Jazz Summit II, Cecelia Coleman nad other jazz around L.A. Benny Golson still sounds fine, too, and hes finishing up his umpteenth Jazz Bakery stand this Friday and Saturday. And check out Catalinas on Tuesday, where theres a Tribute to Tommy Dorsey. Getting that utterly perfect, sweet trombone will be Bill Watrous; indeed, hell ...
Clint Eastwood Nominated for Golden Globes Best Film Score
Clint Eastwood is riding high. Giving a first time screen writer a boost, in June green lighting Gran Torino, then beginning shooting in July. The film just released and this morning Eastwood was nominated for Best Song for the film as well as Best Original Score for his motion picture soundtrack the Changeling. The other nominations: ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet at Disney Hall
The veteran sax man and his combo treat a Disney Hall audience to an improvisational tour de force. Miriam Adam, the clarinetist for Grammy-winning quintet Imani Winds, sounded almost apologetic as she back-introduced the ensemble's first song in its opening set for Wayne Shorter, an evocative, dramatic piece from Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Clad in a ...
Celine Dion's Taking Chances Tour at Staples Center
It's a no-brainer why Celine Dion's Taking Chances tour is shaping up as one of the highest-grossing North American concert attractions of 2008. Think about it: As a nation were going to have to pony up several hundred-billion dollars and hope it might halt the ever-deepening economic meltdown. Feel-good factor for that outlay? Zilch. But for ...
Grammy Awards Blow Their Own Horn with Nomination Concert
The Grammy Museum will open downtown this weekend, but on Wednesday night the venerable awards brand was trying to prove it's no relic in this “American Idol" era. The nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday not at some early-morning news conference -- as they have been in the past -- but sprinkled ...
John Beasley "All-Star" Quartet at the Jazz Bakery
Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, Jeff “Tain" Watts and John Beasley play the Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles December 4-6, 2008 Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock's Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record ...
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