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Duke Ellington

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: African Music

    KCRW Broadcast #165 for Saturday, May 19, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Advice From Diamond Dave Fanatics! Hello from Cape Town! Before we go any further, I want to say that hours ago, I read about the passing of Chuck Brown, the legendary Washington DC musician, the founding father of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz

    See also: *Top 10 Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop *Top 5 Los Angeles Jazz Albums of 2011 Lots of folks know almost nothing about jazz, but condensing the hundred some odd years of the genre into ten albums is not easy, something akin to asking someone to describe the histor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! We Are the Aliens, Everyone Else Is Earthling

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Coming to you from a small room offstage in the very cozy and cool Belly Up in Aspen, Colo., t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues

    KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 8, 2012

    Dances in the Key of Life

    KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    10 Restaurants for Mardi Gras

    We think Paul Simon must have accidentally left out a few lyrics from "Take Me to the Mardi Gras." Sure, we love the "music in the street both night and day" and the chance to "jingle to the beat." But what about the celebratory New Orleans-style food and drinks? Jambalaya, gumbo, crawfish and etouf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Copping MP3s For 
Free Is Not Cool

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also "People Who Pirate Music Are Assholes" Yesterday, I met up with a longtime pal, a v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Pictures Of Rappers' Cats, and a Snoop Dogg Feline Bombshell!

    ​Last week we brought you pictures of jazz players with presidents. It was pretty awesome, particularly Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon. But now, something even better: Pictures of rappers' cats! Fact is, while canines are a common subject (and metaphor) in hip-hop songs, felines don't appea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Pictures Of Jazz Players With Presidents!

    Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon spend some QT​By Sean J. O'Connell Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Since his first recording session with trombonist J.J. Johnson in 1949, he has relentlessly dedicated himself to discovering the limits of the honking beast. This Th ... More >>

  • Music

    June 16, 2011

    Fun With Duke and Jazz

    Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon spend some QT​By Sean J. O'Connell Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Since his first recording session with trombonist J.J. Johnson in 1949, he has relentlessly dedicated himself to discovering the limits of the honking beast. This Th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    The House of Ella

    Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon spend some QT​By Sean J. O'Connell Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Since his first recording session with trombonist J.J. Johnson in 1949, he has relentlessly dedicated himself to discovering the limits of the honking beast. This Th ... More >>

  • Music

    March 31, 2011

    Brick's Picks: Full-Frontal Jazz

    Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon spend some QT​By Sean J. O'Connell Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Since his first recording session with trombonist J.J. Johnson in 1949, he has relentlessly dedicated himself to discovering the limits of the honking beast. This Th ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2011

    David J's Black Dahlia

    The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World

    The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Henry Rollins Column: Decision Points, the Dreamosphere and the Voice-Over Cliffhanger

    Maura Lanahan​ [The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a 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 in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday evening, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Top 10 Wine And Band Pairings: Or, How About Some Air Supply With That $2 Chuck?

    Flickr user 1808wineThe Vintage Cadillac Essentials​Heavy metal drinking is really the only excuse for naming a wine Sledgehammer. Either that, or you're a mega-millions corporate exec type trying to hook us on cheap inexpensive wine (see #2 when you turn the page). And so begets a Top Ten lis ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Redtop's Boogie

    Flickr user 1808wineThe Vintage Cadillac Essentials​Heavy metal drinking is really the only excuse for naming a wine Sledgehammer. Either that, or you're a mega-millions corporate exec type trying to hook us on cheap inexpensive wine (see #2 when you turn the page). And so begets a Top Ten lis ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Up the Wazoo

    Flickr user 1808wineThe Vintage Cadillac Essentials​Heavy metal drinking is really the only excuse for naming a wine Sledgehammer. Either that, or you're a mega-millions corporate exec type trying to hook us on cheap inexpensive wine (see #2 when you turn the page). And so begets a Top Ten lis ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 25, 2010

    Ross Lipman's Urban Decay

    Film-restoration specialist brings his own works on city ruins to L.A. for the first time

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    Brick's Picks: Saxes Roasting on an Open Fire

    Film-restoration specialist brings his own works on city ruins to L.A. for the first time

  • Stage

    February 19, 2009

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

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

  • Music

    September 27, 2007

    Festival Beating

    Day of the Drum and Watts Towers Jazz Festival

  • Music

    July 12, 2007

    Bricks Picks: Old Forms, New Sounds

    Kenny Burrell, Davi Vieira, Sal Marquez and more

  • Film+TV

    November 2, 2006

    A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger

    Kenny Burrell, Davi Vieira, Sal Marquez and more

  • Music

    October 26, 2006

    Stefon Harris Dukes it out at Jazz Bakery

    Jazz, metal and wildlife

  • Stage

    August 24, 2006

    Sex, God and Little Armenians

    Generational divides, from Hollywood to NYC

  • Stage

    August 10, 2006

    Thibaudet Plays Liszt

    Generational divides, from Hollywood to NYC

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    Jon Brion's Amazing Musicquarium

    The Nowhere/Everywhere man on Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, quantum physics, Roxy Music, acoustic alchemy, God and extreme coffee drinking

  • Art+Books

    April 6, 2006

    The Arkivists

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

  • Music

    January 26, 2006

    Ghosts

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

  • Music

    June 2, 2005

    The Joy of Jazz

    Kenny Burrell — educator, if you please

  • Music

    January 20, 2005

    Waves of Sympathy

    Kenny Burrell — educator, if you please

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    The Battle of a Band

    Maetar explodes a world of funky stuff

  • Stage

    December 18, 2003

    All That Jazz

    Talking about my generation

  • Music

    July 24, 2003

    Insane Clone Posse

    Talking about my generation

  • Music

    August 29, 2002

    Heathen Worship

    Talking about my generation

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Secret Agent

    Cecil Taylor has evolved you

  • Stage

    October 25, 2001

    Metamorphoses

    Cecil Taylor has evolved you

  • Music

    September 27, 2001

    Divinity

    Cecil Taylor has evolved you

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Of Wasps and Wind

    James Newton loves the wrong notes

  • Music

    January 18, 2001

    Sun Sonnets

    James Newton loves the wrong notes

  • Stage

    January 18, 2001

    Nick Stewart,
    1910–2000

    James Newton loves the wrong notes

  • Stage

    December 21, 2000

    American Inventions

    Swing! and Heather Woodbury imagine our nation

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Shakespeare in his Pocket

    A brief conversation with Gordon Parks

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Sunny Days, Sultry Nights

    Highlighting the events of the season

  • Stage

    August 26, 1999

    Frigid Eyre, Cool Duke

    The bizarre alchemy of musicals

  • Music

    July 1, 1999

    Juke Joint Jive

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

  • Music

    November 19, 1998

    New Standards

    Marcus Roberts' assimilation and re-expression

  • Stage

    April 16, 1998

    'Da Funk

    Marcus Roberts' assimilation and re-expression

  • Music

    March 19, 1998

    Jazz Central

    Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles

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