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Playboy Jazz Festival Soars June 14th And 15th At The Hollywood Bowl
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS 36TH ANNUAL PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL JUNE 14-15, 2014 PERFORMERS INCLUDE CELEBRATED ICONS OF THE GENRE, EMERGING ARTISTS AND A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY GEORGE DUKE Headliners include: Dianne Reeves, George Benson with special guest Earl Klugh, Jamie Cullum, Fantasia, Al Jarreau and Stanley Clarke celebrating George Duke George ...
Herb Jeffries, Singer
After Herb Jeffries died on Sunday in Los Angeles, headlines around the world remembered him for his career as a singing cowboy in a succession of low budget 1930s Hollywood movies. Appreciative listeners are more likely to recall Jeffries as the singer who worked with the Earl Hines Orchestra, then joined Duke Ellington when the classic ...
Howard McGhee: West Coast, '45-'47
In early 1945, Coleman Hawkins asked trumpeter Howard McGhee if he wanted to join him for a month-long gig in Los Angeles at club due to open. The offer came in Buffalo, N.Y., where both musicians were playing and winter had set in hard, McGhee didn't need to be asked twice. Heading West on the road ...
World Jazz Vocalist Allison Adams Tucker Releases New Recording “April In Paris”
"With a voice supple, agile, and bright, she executes each song on the tracklist with ease and imagination, creating a serene atmosphere that leaves you smiling." —Eva Simontacchi for Jazzitalia Multi-lingual vocalist Allison Adams Tucker is celebrating the release of her second CD “April in Paris” on June 3, 2014 – Songs of springtime and new ...
Hot Guitarist Jacques Lesure Cools Outdoor Los Angeles Audience
Recently with the temperatures topping 90-100 degrees, most Angelenos were seeking some relief from the heat. That came in the form of Jazz Guitarist,Jacques Lesure and his Quartet. The former Detroit native, now L.A. based musician, cooled off the audience with a great play list of originals and standards including a very soothing ,but swinging title ...
Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses To Release Blow On June 10
A different kind of musical dawn is coming with flashes of rowdy big band, simmering soul and swaggering rock 'n' roll as Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses prepare to ignite a new legacy with their second full-length album, Blow out June 10 on Warrior Records/Universal Music Distribution. With Blow, Prima and the Witnesses revive a ...
Armen Nalbandian To Release Solo Piano Album, Time Waits On May 23rd
On May 23rd, 2014, pianist/composer Armen Nalbandian will release Time Waits (Blacksmith Brother Music), his ninth album as a leader and first solo piano album. Time Waits is also one of two solo piano albums that Nalbandian will be releasing this year and features several original compositions by Nalbandian as well as compositions by Thelonious Monk, ...
Bill Cote: Where Do You Start
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Sometimes preconceived notions about recordings can be smashed to smithereens in the most wonderful way. What, yet another GAS-and-jazz-standards recording--this one a debut from a middle-age male vocalist whose main gig is law? Well, quoting TV Land's “Gomer Pyle," “Surprise, surprise!" And, a most enjoyable musical discovery in the Cracker Jack® box it is.
Daniel Rosenboom: Fire Keeper
by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
To say Daniel Rosenboom is no ordinary jazz trumpeter, is no exaggeration. His father, David Rosenboom is currently Dean, Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music at the California Institute of the Arts (and has been at CalArts since 1990), and having a first trumpet teacher in the form of Wadada Leo Smith, where others may have ...
BreakOUt OUtwest Tour with OU and Amy Denio!
SPOOT MUSIC AND B DAHLIA PRESENT: BreakOUt OUtwest TOUR! with OU (Italy) and Amy Denio (Tiptons, Kultur Shock) “...a joyful, multidimensional romp through the Mediterranean and the Americas... OU shows a remarkable ability to turn on a dime without jarring the listener.” —Matt Cole, DooBeeDooBeeDoo, NY “...an exquisite parenthesis of alleviation... a veritable treat.” ...
