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Los Angeles Jazz   Live Jazz Calendar for the Los Angeles Area
Current concert and complete club listings for Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Calendarinfo provided by lajazz.com read more ...
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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Monday, 06 February 2006 |
"I don't
want to put a name on my music," she says. "Other people
can put a name on what I do. It's just the union of what I've been
listening to and what I've been learning. It has some elements of
classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don't want
to give it a name."—Hiromi Uchera Hiromi, Photo by Andrea Canter The Bad Plus might fly higher in the
media, but arguably the most electrifying jazz artist of the current
decade is a diminutive pianist named Hiromi Uehera. The 26-year-old
artist has impressed no less than Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea and
Ahmad Jamal, wowed critics with three successive Telarc recordings
(Another Mind, Brain, and the newly released
Spiral) [Click here for the Jazz
Police review of Spiral]. Hiromi
takes on the west coast, at Catalina’s in LA (Feburary 20-21), at
Yoshi’s in Oakland (February 24-25), and north to Seattle at Jazz
Alley (February 28-March 1). |
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
 Chick Corea, Photo by Howard A. Gitelson
Multiple Grammy Award winner and National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master Chick Corea will perform a free concert with his band Touchstone and Spanish flamenco dancer, Auxi Fernandez, in a special pre-Valentine's day event on Sunday, February 12th at 2:30 pm at the Hollywood Virgin Megastore located in the Hollywood and Highland Complex. An autograph session will immediately follow the performance.
The free concert will include selections from Corea's newly released album, "The Ultimate Adventure" (Concord Records, 2006), an exotic blend of Spanish, North African and Middle Eastern melodies inspired by the fantasy novel of the same name written by best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard. "The Ultimate Adventure" book is being co-released in a retro-stylized paperback version of the novel that recreates the original pulp magazine cover design and story illustrations (Galaxy Press, 2006). This is set to be the first in a line of over 100 pulp fiction books to be released by Galaxy Press at a rate of four per month starting in March. |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
 Photo by Andrea Canter Winner of the IAJE Young Talent award for saxophone at age 12, a protégé of Marian McPartland by 15, a member of the Red Rodney band while still in his teens, and with a long list of recordings as both leader and sideman while still in his 20s, Chris Potter is one prodigy who has lived up to his early billing. Familiar to jazz audiences through his performances with Dave Holland (Quintet and Big Band) and Dave Douglas, as well as his memorable gigs with his own quartet, Potter celebrates his latest release, Underground, with a cross-country tour that started off at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago (February 2-5) before heading to Minneapolis (The Dakota, February 6-7)), Toronto (Revival, February 15), Los Angeles (Jazz Bakery, February 21-26), Santa Cruz (Kuumbwa, February 27), Oakland (Yoshi’s, February 28-March 1), Albuquerque (Outpost, March 2), Boston (Regatta Bar, March 3-4), and New York (Jazz Standard, March 7-12). In addition to showcasing the energy and creativity of this explosive ensemble, we can expect a good sampling of the quartet's brand new release, Underground. Born in Chicago and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, Chris Potter was introduced to music early, first studying piano and then switching to the saxophone after hearing Paul Desmond’s “Take Five.” He studied jazz and played in the |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Thursday, 19 January 2006 |
The exciting
Bill Frisell Quintet featuring Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, Greg Tardy & Kenny Wollesen
will travel from Berkeley at Cal Performances on Jan 22nd
to Los Angeles for a night at the Jazz Bakery on Jan 23rd,
to New York at Zankel Hall on Jan 29th, and
to Minneapolis at The Dakota Bar & Grill on Jan 31st through Feb 2nd.
 BIll Frisell, photo by Michael WIlson "When I was 16, I was listening to a lot of surfing music, a
lot of English rock. Then I saw Wes Montgomery and somehow that kind of
turned me around. Later, Jim Hall made a big impression on me and I
took some lessons with him. I suppose I play the kind of harmonic
things Jim would play but with a sound that comes from Jimi Hendrix",
Frisell told Wire. Bill also lists Paul Motian, Thelonious Monk, Aaron
Copland, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and his teacher, Dale Bruning, as
musical influences. |
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