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Dexter Gordon

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Top Five Los Angeles Jazz Albums of 2011

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    March 10, 2011

    Brick's Picks: Gerald Wilson Lives Up to the Hype ... and Then Some

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2011

    THE POET AND THE JAZZBOS

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    January 6, 2011

    Brick's Picks: Never Mind the Oogie Oogies, Here's Positootly

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2010

    BRICK'S PICKS: A CHARLIE O'S CHRISTMAS

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    November 18, 2010

    BRICK'S PICKS: BOUNCING OFF THESE HOLY WALLS

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    September 23, 2010

    Buddy Collette, 1921-2010

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Up the Wazoo

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    March 6, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Horns of Plenty

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    October 15, 2009

    Brick’s Picks: Easing Into the Jazz

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    June 11, 2009

    Brick’s Picks: Playboy Jazz Fest's Players: King Sunny Ade, Jimmy Cobb, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    May 28, 2009

    Celebrating Freddie Hubbard, Bidding Farewell to the Jazz Bakery in Culver City

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: Traveling Man — Tootie Heath

    Gretchen Parlato​See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early innovators like Hampton Hawes, Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon honed thei ... More >>

  • Music

    March 12, 2009

    SF Jazz Collective With Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, Robin Eubanks; David Sanchez at Jazz Bakery

    Also: Vocalist Nnenna Freelon, Five Peace Band with Corea, McLaughlin and Garrett

  • Music

    February 26, 2009

    All-Star Gamers

    Jazz in L.A., February 27-March 5

  • Music

    February 5, 2009

    Brick's Picks: Ascending the Mountain

    Jazz in L.A., February 6-12

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Tonight at the Grammy Museum: Charlie Haden Talks Jazz

    Legendary acoustic bass player Charlie Haden, whose work with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and pretty much every other jazz player of any import, will speak jazz and business with Grammy Museum director Robert Santelli at the museum's new digs in L.A. Live. The public conversation, part of the Duke ... More >>

  • Music

    May 15, 2008

    Brick's Picks: Tigran Hamasayan, Kneebody, Nels Cline and more

    Legendary acoustic bass player Charlie Haden, whose work with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and pretty much every other jazz player of any import, will speak jazz and business with Grammy Museum director Robert Santelli at the museum's new digs in L.A. Live. The public conversation, part of the Duke ... More >>

  • Music

    February 21, 2008

    Brick's Picks: The World Beat

    Rhythms from north to south, east to west

  • Music

    February 14, 2008

    Brick's Picks: Excavatin' the Melody

    Dig these jazz treasures, Feb. 15-21

  • Music

    January 31, 2008

    Brick's Picks: Beneath an Amber Moon

    Seven days of solid jazz, plus the sounds of Brazil

  • Music

    November 15, 2007

    Brick's Picks: Big Band Blowout

    Jazz picks around L.A.

  • Music

    November 8, 2007

    Ghost 'tranes

    Jazz picks around L.A.

  • Music

    November 30, 2006

    Jazz Listings

    For the week of Jan. 5 – 11

  • Music

    August 10, 2006

    Music Picks

    For the week of August 10–17

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2006

    Jazz Listings

    For the week of August 10–17

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Metal and Wood

    Music materials 2004

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Time of the Session

    When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

  • Music

    June 26, 2003

    Is This Jazz?

    The school of Bobby Bradford

  • Music

    May 1, 2003

    Date With the Night

    The school of Bobby Bradford

  • Columns

    December 27, 2001

    Man and Superwoman

    The school of Bobby Bradford

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    The Elixirs

    Charles Lloyd on ultrapolation, dehumidification and the sound

  • Music

    December 23, 1999

    Open, Like a Door

    Billy Higgins takes a stick to cultural idiocy

  • Music

    December 9, 1999

    Original Jamsters

    No-dress-code jazz releases

  • Music

    September 16, 1999

    'Don't Like Vanilla'

    The many flavors of Central Avenue Sounds

  • Music

    December 24, 1998

    Birth of the Cruel

    Progressive jazz for your silent night

  • Music

    October 22, 1998

    Don't Wake Me

    A dream week of jazz in L.A.

  • Music

    July 23, 1998

    Honk if You're Hungry

    A dream week of jazz in L.A.

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    News

    A dream week of jazz in L.A.

  • Music

    March 19, 1998

    Jazz Central

    Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles

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