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Music Picks: Funk-a-Palooza, Keith Jarrett, Ute Lemper & the Vogler Quartet

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Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk

100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Category: Attractions/Amusement Parks

Region: Out of Town

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Los Globos

3040 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Silver Lake

The Redwood Bar & Grill

316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

The Smell

247 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

631 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

The Viper Room

8852 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

El Rey Theatre

5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

The Avalon

1735 Vine St.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Hollywood

Walt Disney Concert Hall

111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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Pianist Alan Pasqua, bassist Darek Oles, drummer Peter Erskine and saxophonist Bob Mintzer make up this acronymic ensemble, their vocations all beginning with explosive introductions to the music world: Pasqua with Tony Williams, Erskine with Stan Kenton, Mintzer with Art Blakey, Oles with Brad Mehldau. Other associations include Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius, Lee Konitz, Allan Holdsworth and the Yellowjackets. Extremely fiery players in their youth, these four have matured like a fine wine, mellower but increasingly exquisite, as evidenced by their latest project, Standards 2, Movie Music. Still recording a ton, sounding as good as ever, all of them have cushy professorships at USC, which means they should write the textbook on how to have a successful career playing jazz. —Gary Fukushima

Mumiy Troll

THE VIPER ROOM

"Sometimes life is a bit rough/Vodka's not cold enough/You can cry it away," Ilya Lagutenko croons, almost sympathetically. "See whose land is on fire?/Not yours, not mine." The Mumiy Troll singer might know a thing or two about life's ups and downs. When the shadowy post-punk band formed in the then–Soviet Union's far eastern city of Vladivostok in 1983, they were practically treated like enemies of the state. Fast-forward a few decades and they're considered Russian national heroes. As ever, Lagutenko's darkly witty lyrics are wrapped up in a swanky Roxy Music glitter and crowned with Yuri Tsaler's insidiously searing guitar figures. "Sing along, God dammit," Lagutenko urges. "How do you like it? What a planet!" —Falling James

Also playing:

LIZZ WRIGHT at Broad Stage; OFF! at Galaxy Theatre; MICHAEL LANDAU TRIO at the Baked Potato; IMPERIAL TEEN at Satellite.

 

sun 3/25

Vitalic

EL REY THEATRE

Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, known in dance-music circles as Vitalic, is the man with the electro-disco hits. His early-'00s hit, "La Rock 01," kept dance floors packed for years with its frenetic synth lines and raucous rhythm. Not long after that, he unleashed "My Friend Dario," the closest thing you'll ever hear to a completely synthesized rock & roll jam. More recently, he has delved into disco, creating futuristic jams for late-'70s nightclubs that never existed and turning Jean Michel Jarre's seminal electronic track "La Cage" into a slick groove for the after-midnight crowd. Saturday night's gig is touted as a DJ gig. While you probably won't hear a live rendition of "My Friend Dario," you'll certainly get a glimpse into the records that inform Vitalic's sci-fi electro disco. —Liz Ohanesian

Family of the Year

AVALON

The video for recent single "St. Croix" has Family of the Year all posed up as the Beach Boys circa "Barbara Ann" (striped shirts and all), but there's more than a little post–Pet Sounds Wilsoniana hiding in this L.A. indie band. Singer-songwriter Joe Keefe and bros (including bio bro Sebastian) easily slice through the sort of indie pop Vampire Weekend, et al., thrust upon the charts, but little nonsingle gems like "Living on Love" (with the revelatory lyrical addendum " ... and libations!") and "Chugjug" and 2010's adorable "Stupidland" reveal a band that has studied the immortal chord changes of something like Sunflower's "Whole Wide World." If there's an off-center California pop sound for the here and now, this is probably what it sounds like. —Chris Ziegler

Also playing:

GOOD OLD WAR, BELLE BRIGADE at Avalon; DIONNE WARWICK at the Grammy Museum.

 

mon 3/26

NO., Young Hunting

THE ECHO

Not to be confused with the pop-rockers touring with the Strokes, NO. is the Echo Park–based band of baritone crooner Bradley Hana Carter, a former punk kid whose buzzing new project is tinted with the kind of darkness we've come to love and expect from the National. It's anthemic stuff, roughed up but pro-sounding, black and romantic. Co-founder and bassist Sean Daniel Stenz is one of the guys behind Origami Vinyl (one of the best-curated vinyl outposts in town), so it should be no surprise that NO.'s debut EP, Don't Worry, You'll Be Here Forever, sounds like something rock aficionados will be spinning for months to come. Though they have but a precious four recorded songs to their name, local openers Young Hunting have a lot to offer, with dreamy harmonies, woozy atmosphere, yearning sentiment and sun-dappled strumming. —Chris Martins

Also playing:

NICOLAS JAAR at the Echoplex; LES HOOPER BIG BAND at Typhoon.

 

tue 3/27

Keith Jarrett

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

It has been more than two decades since pianist Keith Jarrett last performed a solo concert in Los Angeles. Tonight's show should actually be worth the considerable wait, and is one of only three solo performances Jarrett has scheduled for North America in 2012. While Jarrett's sometimes mercurial stage presence is overly documented, his October trio appearance at Royce Hall included friendly commentary to the audience at the outset. Jarrett's latest, Rio, features a set of solo improvisations, and tonight's L.A. Phil–sponsored performance will follow the same formula. His recordings over the past three decades have largely defined the best in jazz piano, and have included some of the best-selling jazz albums of this era. Show up early — no late seating will be offered once the program begins. —Tom Meek

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