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“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.” - Charles Mingus |
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 Saturday, 18 May 2013 |
Los Angeles Jazz   Live Jazz Calendar for the Los Angeles Area
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012 |
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"Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite." - B.B. King  Kenny Burrell © Andrea Canter Dubbed the "grand master of the jazz guitar" by Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Burrell pioneered the guitar-led trio with bass and drums in the late 1950s. Known for his harmonic creativity, lush tones, and lyricism on the guitar, he is also a prolific and highly regarded composer. Come hear this living legend with his quintet featuring Tivon Pennicott on saxophone, Mike Wofford on piano, Roberto Miranda on bass, and Clayton Cameron on drums at Catalina's Jazz Club in Hollywood on Friday, November 2nd through Sunday, November 4th. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Friday, 12 October 2012 |
 Vijay Iyer © Andrea Canter
2012 has been a remarkable year for Vijay Iyer. Iyer received top honors in five categories of the 2012 Down Beat International Critics Poll, including Jazz Artist of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year (for Accelerando), Jazz Group of the Year (for the Vijay Iyer Trio), Pianist of the Year and Rising Star Composer. No other artist in the sixty-year history of the magazine’s poll has ever taken five titles simultaneously For his UCLA concert he will perform in three contexts. His trio, featuring Stephan Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums, starts out the evening, pushing the classic combo configuration to entirely new territories. Vijay’s new sextet, featuring the core trio plus legendarily influential alto-saxophonist Steve Coleman, with the addition of Graham Haynes on trumpet and cornet, and Mark Shim on tenor sax, will close out the evening. The Concert takes place at 7:00 p.m.on Sunday, October 14th at UCLA - Royce Hall in Los Angeles. |
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Written by Glenn A. Mitchell, LA Jazz Scene
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Thursday, 06 September 2012 |
 Taylor Moore (Bob Barry, Jazzography.com) The Young Artists Jazz Series, produced by Barbara Brighton at Catalina’s Jazz Club, featured drum phenom Taylor Moore on August 21st. This was an outstanding LA debut for Moore, from Chicago, who played with two excellent UCLA up-and-coming young artists, pianist Julian Le and bassist Owen Clapp. Moore already has a number of pretty terrific musical credits at her young age of 23, including some performances with percussionist Shelia E., pianist/singer/songwriter Patrice Rushen, world-class drummers Ndugu Chancler and Charles Heath, and jazz pianists Willie Pickens, Ken Chaney and Robert “Baabe” Irving III, just to name a few. Moore’s education is mostly in Chicago area, including her Bachelor’s of Music in Performance and Production from the University of Illinois in 2011. She also was awarded the 2011 Youth Jazz Award from Jazz in the Alley, a premier jazz preservation organization in Chicago. |
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Written by Glenn A. Mitchell, LA Jazz Scene
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Thursday, 06 September 2012 |
.jpg "Image") Joe LaBarbera Quintet (James Frank Dean) Superb drummer Joe La Barbera brought his amazing quintet to Blue Whale to celebrate their new Silver Streams CD release on Saturday, August 11th. It was a packed house, setting the stage for a fantastic musical evening. Silver Streams is the title of La Barbera’s new CD, paying tribute to the great Horace Silver in the title tune composed by Bill Cunliffe. The rest of this great CD—one of the best new releases in some time-- includes compositions by members of the quintet and other composers. In addition to La Barbera, the quintet included Bob Sheppard (saxes), John Daversa (trumpet and flugelhorn), Bill Cunliffe (piano) and Tom Warrington (bass). |
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