Buddy Collette

Brick's Picks: Just Like It Was in the '30s

R.I.P. Gil Bernal; Los Angeles Tenor Sax Great is Dead

​Obituary by Jonny Whiteside Tenor sax veteran Gil Bernal died on Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was 80. Bernal was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician who began his professional career with swing kingpin Lionel Hampton in 1950, and played and collaborated with everyone from Ray ... More >>

Buddy Collette, 1921-2010

​Obituary by Jonny Whiteside Tenor sax veteran Gil Bernal died on Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was 80. Bernal was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician who began his professional career with swing kingpin Lionel Hampton in 1950, and played and collaborated with everyone from Ray ... More >>

Legendary LA Jazzman Buddy Collette Dead at 89

merryljaye.com"Buddy Collette," by Merry Jaye​Legendary LA jazz performer Buddy Collette died last Sunday. He was 89 years old. Collette was a treasure trove of LA jazz history, a living depository of black culture in this city going back to the 1920s. Born in 1921, he was exactly the right ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Huevos Jazzeros

merryljaye.com"Buddy Collette," by Merry Jaye​Legendary LA jazz performer Buddy Collette died last Sunday. He was 89 years old. Collette was a treasure trove of LA jazz history, a living depository of black culture in this city going back to the 1920s. Born in 1921, he was exactly the right ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Thelonious Assault

merryljaye.com"Buddy Collette," by Merry Jaye​Legendary LA jazz performer Buddy Collette died last Sunday. He was 89 years old. Collette was a treasure trove of LA jazz history, a living depository of black culture in this city going back to the 1920s. Born in 1921, he was exactly the right ... More >>

Today in Photographs: August 23, 1962

​Scene inside a Little Tokyo record shop. Note L.A. sax player Buddy Collette's Man of Many Parts LP in lower left-hand corner. LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

A World of (Jazz) Music

​Scene inside a Little Tokyo record shop. Note L.A. sax player Buddy Collette's Man of Many Parts LP in lower left-hand corner. LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

This Week in LA Weekly: Jerkin', Sunn 0))), Amanda Blank, LA Ladies Choir, More

This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Amir ElSaffar, Kyle Eastwood, Dot Org at Eagle Rock Center

This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

Ghost 'tranes

This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Jazz Central

Two days of great jazz on the avenue

Top of the Bop

Brick's jazz picks

Unenslaved

Scoping the stars and sewage of Central Avenue

The Arkivists

Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South L.A.

Waves of Sympathy

Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South L.A.

Fullness

Gerald Wilson, big bands and the rewards of non-suicide

The Function of Jazz

Abstraction under siege in a utilitarian world

Of Wasps and Wind

James Newton loves the wrong notes

The Goods

I listened to ’em, honest

The Elixirs

Charles Lloyd on ultrapolation, dehumidification and the sound

Brass Roots

Charles Lloyd on ultrapolation, dehumidification and the sound

'Don't Like Vanilla'

The many flavors of Central Avenue Sounds

L.A. Weekly Music Awards Nominees 1999

The many flavors of Central Avenue Sounds

News

The many flavors of Central Avenue Sounds

Jazz Central

Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles