Charlie Parker

Tickets on Sale for Outstanding in the Field's 2013 Tour!

Tickets are on sale for Outstanding in the Field's 2013 Tour. As is usually the case, the dates include a preponderance of stops at West Coast farms. In case you don't know much about this travelin' pop-up party, let us illuminate the vibe. A 60-year-old bus zips around to farms all over the coun ... More >>

What's in the Chef's Market Cart: Eggs from Schaner Family Farms

What's in your cart, chef? This week we ask executive chef Charlie Parker of Freddy Smalls in West Los Angeles. "I've got eggs from Schaner," Parker says. "We use them in a few things. Devilled, fried, slow cooked." Schaner Family Farms is perhaps best known for their wide variety of excellent ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Nov 5-8

Monday, November 5 Leonard Cohen NOKIA THEATRE Well-dressed man Leonard Cohen is often referred to as a ladykiller; no doubt, the gifted songwriter, musician and poet is effortlessly suave, with a quiet charisma that surely aids in conveying the pointedly poignant words and hues of his music and po ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Not to Eat Meat on Mondays

5. You work at the USDA (or maybe don't anymore): And thus got an internal memo last week, which helpfully pointed out that "one simple way to reduce your environmental impact while dining at our cafeterias is to participate in the 'Meatless Monday' initiative." (Meatless Mondays is a 2003 non-profi ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

KCRW Broadcast #155 for Saturday, March 10, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style Fanatics! I am writing you from the backstage area of the House of Blues down here in Orlando FL. The next four shows are in the Sunshine State. So far, the US leg of the tour has been going ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: L.A.'s Experimental Punk Band Bark Bark Bark

KCRW Broadcast #148 for Saturday, January 14, 2012 Fanatics! As you know, I am on the road and will be for some time. Engineer X, the Young Will Bentley and I got together recently at the Auxiliary Wing of the Jasonic Temple and put together a fine show for you all. As you can see below, we have a ... More >>

Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss's Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes

[Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Lives: As Legend, or Corporate Slogan for Vans?

Photo by Silje at siljeohlalaThe Hopper posters that are popping up all over town.​ You must have noticed his eyes, with their slightly mournful, softened edges. And his beard, which looks like a bristling, black-and-grey hedgehog. Or at least the slogan in giant white letters, spelling out a ... More >>

Odd Future, Move Over: Flying Lotus Gets Jazz Treatment By Canadian Trio

Alex Sowinski on drums, in a pig mask​Who says jazz is dead? Nobody, if Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD has anything to do with it. Back in April, we happened upon the group's eight-minute re-imagining of two songs from Tyler, the Creator's Bastard and (our personal favorite) Gucci Mane's "Lemon ... More >>

You Can't Go Home Again: Henry Rollins on Being Back in the USA, Autumnal Feelings and his Favorite Thomas Wolfe Passage!

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Playboy Jazz Festival

The 32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival had its typical big-name veterans play - George Benson, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer - but it was the lesser known performers who almost stole the show. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. and Naturally 7 made their first appearances and the Pete ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Tubman Interpreted

Brick’s Picks: the Real McCoy

Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

Brick's Picks: Eddie Harris Tribute, Doug Webb, Med Flory and more

Tenors of the times

Brick's Picks: Roy Haynes, Ernie Andrews and Others

Jazz in L.A., May 30-June 5

Brick's Picks: Running Hot and Cold

Jazz in L.A., May 2-8

Poet Billy Collins Charms the Skirball Crowd

Brick's Picks: Blues Cruise

From the South Bay to the West Valley, jazz abounds

Passing Through Again

A legendary underground jazz movie returns

Sands of Time

Jazz picks around L.A.

Joe Henry’s Metaphysical Americana

Patriot songs

Brick's Picks: The Two Tenors

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

WTF?

Rhino Records’ last parking-lot sale, minus the parking lot

Top 10, er, 12 Movies of the Year

For a Few Million More . . .

In his 24th film since Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood is still working on Hollywood’s longest second act

Deep Song

Charlie Haden’s liberation music (1991 interview)

Ornette Coleman cover story, 1989

A Bear of Very Little Shame

Bastard Power

Metallica, still the kings

The Last Bohemian, RIP

Jirayr Zorthian, 1911–2004

California Tuffy

Carla Bozulich in the time of the preacher

Anthems for a New Century

Is This Jazz?

The school of Bobby Bradford

Steal This Drummer

The Function of Jazz

Abstraction under siege in a utilitarian world

This Ain't No Juilliard!

Life and violins at the school that Flea built

Jazz

If it’s dead, where’d all this come from?

Music, Race and Junk

Creation Myth

Drugs and musicians, together forever

Freedom Now

Max Roach on the day of the drum

The Gospel of Charles

Charlie Parker’s bebop nativity, unabridged

Psychotropic Delights

Sadie Plant on Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and the drug jones in all of us

Dieties of the Big Bang

Nervous Man Nervous

Big Jay McNeely in 3-D

Original Jamsters

No-dress-code jazz releases

Juke Joint Jive

Jimmie Maddin on the L.A. scene circa the '40s & '50s

News

Jazz Central

Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles

Old Flames

Riverside jazz: An invitation