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Jazz Pianist Rob Mullins to Headline Denver Amphitheatre
Los Angeles CA --Jazz pianist, recording artist, and educator Rob Mullins will headline the Grand Opening of the new City Hall Event Center in Denver, CO on October 18, 2008. Mullins, a former Denver resident who released his first five albums in Colorado, will make his first appearance in Colorado in 25 years for Denver nightclub ...
Jazz! Strike up the Bland
The sax player and the Brazilian chamber group explore the works of Darius Milhaud and Heitor Villa-Lobos in an uneven performance at Royce Hall. Make a poet a diplomat and good may come of it. France sent the great humanist writer Paul Claudel to Brazil during World War I, and food found its way from South ...
Gone with the Ages the Coconut Grove
The Ambassador Hotel lesson Demolishing such iconic buildings not only destroys history, it wastes resources. By Diane Keaton Last week, I drove past the 22-acre vacant lot once known as the Ambassador Hotel. As I looked at the rubble of our lost cause, I pulled over, sat back and gave in to ...
Big Band Fiesta Draws Latin Lovers
Plus, Matt Slocum, Ernie Watts, Wolfgang Schalk and other jazz highlights Ken Postons Los Angeles Jazz Institute has a habit of throwing weekend-long bashes featuring scads of big bands, and sometimes it seems there aint a big band around that Poston hasnt corralled into whatever venue hes managed to book. Theres always a theme, too this ...
A Half-Century of McCabe's Guitar Shop
Little shop of adorers Hanging from the walls are a saz, a charango, a bouzouki and dozens of djembes, didgeridoos and kalimbas, along with hundreds of ukuleles, mandolins, banjos and guitars variously stringed, shaped, amplified and not. A couple of harp guitars (the baroque axe Robbie Robertson played in The Last Waltz), a 19th-century varietal, and ...
Howard Hewett Releases A Cherished First Christmas CD
Howard Hewett, who has been bringing us R&B for years, is inviting his fans to join him for Christmas this year. Howard Hewett's Christmas CD is set to release October 14th, 2008 on Groove Records, bringing back the warmest of memories and classic Christmas songs. Howard Hewett's Christmas CD combines Hewett's soulful warm R&B voice with ...
Lloyd Thaxton TV Dance Show Host, Dies at 81
What came to be 'The Lloyd Thaxton Show' began in 1959 and was nationally syndicated in 1964. Amid the dancing teenagers and guest appearances was his unique brand of zany humor. Lloyd Thaxton, the host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s who memorably injected a visual zaniness into his daily rock ...
Performance: Ernie Watts at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, October 7-11
Ernie Watts and his quartet will return to the Jazz Bakery Wednesday, October 7th trhough Saturday, October 11th. The Jazz Bakery wasthe scene of a live recording of the Ernie Watts Quartet latest CD, To The Point. The Quartet features Ernie Watts on saxophones, David Witham on piano, Brice Lett on bass, and Bob Leatherbarrow on ...
Marsalis Bringing Classical Brazilian Jazz to Pac
Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis will bring his mesmerizing musical program, “Marsalis Brasilianos,” to the Cohan Center stage of the Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly on Thursday. Presented by Cal Poly Arts, “Marsalis Brasilianos” features Marsalis in a unique collaboration with the Philarmonia Brasileira, under conductor Gil Jardim. The project celebrates the music of ...
Blue Ash's Powerpop Gem Debut Album Reissued on Collectors' Choice
Youngstown, Ohio band, signed to Mercury by Paul Nelson (New York Dolls), never hit the big time but is worshipped by the pop cognoscenti LOS ANGELES, Calif. — When England’s Guardian newspaper assembled its list of “1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die,” the 1973 debut album from Blue Ash made the grade alongside all the ...
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