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Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including Broadway's Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson

Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration saga Long Way Go Down at the Art of Acting Studio, and for the silly Aussie import Priscilla Queen of ... More >>

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at the Geffen Playhouse and the Plight of Black Performers in Hollywood

Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals

Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others

Music Picks: The Dickies, Rufus Wainwright, Jack DeJohnette

Also, Calle 13, Andre Nickatina

Stanley Clarke Band - Catalina Bar & Grill - 2/23/12

Stanley Clarke Band Catalina Bar & Grill 2-23-12 Better than...vacuuming Joan Rivers' carpet. Last night, mere blocks from Academy Award street closures and packs of scantily clad women, bassist Stanley Clarke took to the Catalina Bar & Grill to kick off the first of his three night residency, bac ... More >>

Music Picks: Coldplay, Estelle, Joss Stone, Lana Del Rey

Also, Enuff Z'Nuff, Gizzelle, Goliath and others

Kris Bowers Played On Watch The Throne: He's At Catalina's Tomorrow Night

Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute​When most college students return home for winter break, they watch TV in the den and get drunk with high school friends. Pianist Kris Bowers, a 22-year old-graduate student at Julliard, however, has come home to Los Angeles with some big prizes, and will perfo ... More >>

Music Picks: Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band, Jane Monheit, Manhattan Murder Mystery

Also, Fishbone, Luciana Souza, Infected Mushroom and others

Music Picks: Andrea Bocelli, Carina Round, A Hero A Fake

Also, Norma Jean, Jonathan Richman, Jay-Z and Kanye West and others

Music Picks: Digital Underground, Beady Eye, Erykah Badu

Also, Jane Birkin, Human Drama, Big Jay McNeely

Music Picks: Janet Jackson, John Escreet Quartet, DJ Quik, Charles Bradley

Also, Charlie Haden Quartet West, John Williams, Philip Glass and others

Jazz Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's Five Favorite Film Soundtracks

​Interview by Sean O'Connell Trumpet player and New Orleans native Terence Blanchard is a very busy man, but when he isn't blasting his fiery, post-bop horn on a recording date or scoring the latest Hollywood drama, he always makes time for the stage. From August 19th through the 21st, Blan ... More >>

Music Picks: Tinariwen, Colbie Caillat, A.R. Rahman, Best Coast

Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

69 Things for Music Lovers to Do In L.A. on Valentine's Day

Timothy Norris​ Don't sacrifice your Monday night music excursions into our fair city of Los Angeles, just to be a slave to the grueling whip of commercialized love. You can have your cake and eat it too, especially if that cake comes with a plethora of "ingredients" that help you get your ro ... More >>

Music Picks: Repeater, Project Blowed 16th Anniversary, Infected Mushroom

Also, Riot Grrl Christmas Carnival, Captain Ahab and others

Music Picks: Buzzcocks, Diana Ross, Isis, the xx

Also, Compton Metal Night, Health, Thao and Mirah

Music Picks: Neil Innes, Korean Music Festival 8, Avi Buffalo, Lupe Fiasco, Coheed and Cambria

Also, No Age, Sheila E & the Escovedo Family, Greg Laswell and others

Music Picks: Liz Pappademas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mad Professor, Bill Frisell

Also, Taylor Swift, Los Tres, Saint Motel, David Allan Coe and others

Music Picks: Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bad Religion, Non

Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others

Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Paul McCartney, Melissa Auf der Maur

Also, Jay-Z, Metric, Triorganico, Air and others

Rock Picks: Fol Chen, Moonrats, Brightblack Morning Light, Bachelorette

Also, the Curious Mystery, Graham Parker, Miss Derringer, Marduk and others

Branford, Bob Bain, Will Bernard with John Medeski

Rock Picks: Everest, Mumiy Troll, Busta Rhymes

Also, Faun Fables, Chris Darrow tribute, Allen Toussaint and others

Brick's Picks: Savina Yannatou, Janis Mann, Tony Bennett and more

Getting found in the music

Brick's Picks: Otmaro Ruiz, Katia Moraes, Daby Touré and more

Jazz in L.A., August 1-7

Brick's Picks: Standard Time and Beyond

Notes From the Real ... and the surreal

Brick's Picks: Beneath an Amber Moon

Seven days of solid jazz, plus the sounds of Brazil

Everybody Do the Medulla Oblongata!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Brick's Picks: Golden Moments '07

Jazz picks around L.A. — plus a look back

Sands of Time

Jazz picks around L.A.

Klezmer With Hot Sauce

Straight Ahead, With Detours

Charles Owens at Charlie O’s and other picks

His Beat Goes On

Roy Haynes at Catalina and other jazz picks

Brick's Picks: The Two Tenors

Pete Christlieb and Don Menza battle it out at Charlie O’s — plus, other jazz picks

A Tale of Two Cities

Hargrove, toast of the Big Apple; Clatworthy, lost on the left coast

'Phone Phreaks

The B.E.C.K. Quartet and other jazz picks

From Radical to Roots

The Creative Music Festival and other jazz picks

Jazz Listings

For the week of Jan. 5 – 11

Matthew Shipp Docks at Barnsdall; Cryptonight Suspended

Music Picks

For the week of April 28 - May 4

Another Lost Weekend?

What to do from March 3 - 9

Jazz Listings for February 10 - 16

For February 10 - 16

Jazz Listings

Jazz Listings

January 27 - Feb 2, 2006

Jazz Listings

Concerts Clubs Other Jazz

The Man Who Would Be King

Gene La Pietra’s quest to rule Hollywood

Letters

Selling Really Weird Music

Don't Read This Story

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