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Angel City Jazz Festival
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The Troubadour
9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: West Hollywood
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The Redwood Bar & Grill
316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Downtown
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Category: Music Venues
Region: Out of Town
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The highlight of the seven-day festival, this show features five excellent bands that are as varied in style and aesthetics as they are united in aggressive writing and daring improvisation. Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, led by vocalist Dwight Trible, is followed by the brilliant Japanese tag team of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura. A few bands from Paris, the progressive Kandinsky Trio and stunning pianist Tigran Hamasyan and his quintet (featuring Ben Wendel on sax) are up next. The evening concludes with saxophonist/Guggenheim fellow Rudresh Mahanthappa with his fusion of electro-acoustic jazz and South Indian Carnatic. If you want a relaxing evening, don't go, for your face should be melted off by the end. But hey, what's left of it will be smiling. —Gary Fukushima
Pac Div, YG, Skeme
GLASS HOUSE (POMONA)
As last spring's mixtape Mania! proved, SoCal hip-hop trio Pac Div still send Twitter into a tizzy — even though the industry's behind-the-scenes biz (they made a switch from Universal Motown to ATL rapper T.I.'s Grand Hustle Records this year) keeps pushing back their debut album, Grown Kid Syndrome. Doubtful the delays have put a damper on them: They were raised on the "just another day out in sunny L.A." sound and spirit, their live shows are testaments that California indeed knows how to party, and they just announced a new EP set to drop in November. Rising Inglewood rapper Skeme opens, along with Def Jam artist YG, who did his part for raunch rap with the whispery strip-club anthem "Pussy Killer" and last year's ubiquitous radio hit "Toot It and Boot It." —Rebecca Haithcoat
Blink-182, My Chemical Romance
You might as well know going in that Neighborhoods, the Blink-182 reunion album in stores this week, is no great shakes. Imagine a less tuneful version of Tom DeLonge's short-lived Box Car Racer or a less-grandiose version of his still-operating Angels & Airwaves. (The key word here? Less.) That said, Blink remain a hugely appealing live act, one with just the right number of jokes to offset all the damaged-kid drama of their later material. At Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in 2009, DeLonge left no double entendre unmolested. They play here as co-headliners with My Chemical Romance, who've always made being a damaged kid sound like a blast. Also Oct. 8 at the Hollywood Bowl. —Mikael Wood
Elbow
GREEK THEATRE
Anyone who claims Elbow are too mellow hasn't seen them play live. Led by charismatic, honey-voiced frontman Guy Garvey, the Mercury Prize–winning Manchester quintet can rock it with the best of them. Their latest album, Build a Rocket Boys!, showcases their penchant for starting songs softly and building to a crescendo so climactic it'll make last night's bedroom escapades pale in comparison. Huge in their native England, Elbow are still building a stateside fan base five albums into their career, but a stellar Coachella appearance earlier this year finally is creating enough buzz to fill amphitheaters here rather than clubs. Although frequently said to be a cross between Coldplay and Radiohead, Elbow's lush orchestration and Garvey's hyperliterate, heartbreaking lyrics put them in a class of their own. —Laura Ferreiro
McCABE'S
Jolie Holland's fifth album, Pint of Blood, is an intimate affair, recorded at her home studio, where she was backed by a small group called the Grand Chandeliers: producer Shahzad Ismaily, engineer Grey Gersten and guitarist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn). But the intimacy is also in her songs, where her jaunty melodies and radiantly sunny confidence sometimes give way to a vulnerably lovelorn quavering. The Chandeliers lay down sympathetic, subtle accompaniment, such as the way that a slight dip in Ribot's steel guitar implies a rusty lock turning and a dark room opening up into a boundless Western sky. Holland takes her band on a not-always-merry journey, from the stark acoustic idyll "June" and the folkie disillusionment of "All Those Girls" to the jazzy, tie-dyed exuberance of "Little Birds." —Falling James
Also playing:
THE DAYLIGHTS at Hotel Café; ERASURE at the Hollywood Palladium; PETER BJORN & JOHN at Troubadour; KENDRICK LAMAR at Whiskey A Go Go; PORTUGAL. THE MAN at Avalon; SANTANA at Hollywood Bowl.
sun 10/2
Shogun Warrior
THE BAKED POTATO
Every first Sunday of the month at the Baked Potato, keyboardist Jeff Babko leads fusion/jam superband Shogun Warrior from behind a Fender Rhodes, topped with a turntable he spins, offering often humorous samples to bridge tunes. Babko's fellow Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandmate Toshi Yanagi rips through guitar solos with abandon, while big-band leader John Daversa splits trumpet and the rarely heard EVI, a synthesized horn he twists to maximum limits. Tonight's lineup features the virtuoso guest duo of Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Steve Hass (drums). Think '70s Miles Davis meets the Headhunters — Shogun Warrior should be opening for the likes of Medeski, Martin & Wood or Phish. The only problem is, they'd blow those better-known bands away. —Tom Meek
Also playing:
ALEX CLINE, ROSCOE MITCHELL TRIO at REDCAT; MARNIE STERN, DUNES at Bootleg Bar; WHISPERTOWN at Satellite; THE CHAPIN SISTERS at McCabe's.
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