Herbie Hancock

Pan African Film and Arts Festival 2013 Spotlights Immigration, Civil Rights and Jazz

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 10 Lamps PEHRSPACE Lamps are punk (like Chrome? Or Suicide?). They're from space (like Hawkwind?) but also from hell (like Electric Eels!), where everything melts together into a big hot white ball of confusion that's bright enough to give off some sick kind of light but which will ... More >>

Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die

By Joseph Lapin Because there are multiple decades of jazz, it's almost impossible to pick the top 10 albums of all time; the hip cats with their canes and cool shades will throw their used saxophone reeds in my direction and call me a young whippersnapper. Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't ... More >>

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Peace - Hollywood Bowl - 8/29/12

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Peace Hollywood Bowl 8-29-12 Better than...the Republican National Convention. Let's get this out of the way early: I like peace. Obtaining peace and air conditioning are my two highest priorities these days and peace is winning by a mile. I also like pianist Herbie Hanco ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, August 27 Summer Twins THE SATELLITE Summer's here and the time is right for a pure-pop escape. Sisters Chelsea (lead vocals and guitar) and Justine Brown (drums) lay down a simple, unabashedly irony-free form of pop that layers '60s garage rock with dreamy harmonies. "I'm just a piece of g ... More >>

Music Picks: Diana Krall, Concrete Blonde, Herbie Hancock

Also Echo Rising, Shlohmo, Divine Fits and others

Henry Rollins: The Column! Miles Davis, Cool on a Postage Stamp

[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: Miles Davis Celebration and Postage Stamp Unveiling - Hollywood Bowl - 6/27/12 Abo ... More >>

Miles Davis Celebration and Postage Stamp Unveiling - Hollywood Bowl - 6/27/12

A Celebration of Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl 6-27-12 Better than...celebrating Garfield creator Jim Davis Last night, under a vivid half moon, this year's Bowl jazz series kicked off with a tribute to Miles Davis. It was largely a hit and as eclectic as the great trumpeter's game-changing career. E ... More >>

Herbie Hancock With The Los Angeles Philharmonic - Disney Hall - 9-27-11

For more photos, see Mark Edward Harris' slideshow. Herbie Hancock, Gustavo "The Dude" Dudamel conducting the L.A. Phil Walt Disney Concert Hall September 27, 2011 Better Than: Multitasking to a Gershwin recording. Actually listening again is a revelation. Go ahead, put "Rhapsody in Blue" in a mi ... More >>

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Wanna Own a Legendary Record Label? Black Jazz Puts Itself Up for Sale

​Story by Brett Koshkin Neither John Coltrane nor Herbie Hancock ever recorded for the Bay Area-based Black Jazz label that flourished in the '70s West Coast jazz scene. Far from being a commercial powerhouse, the label concentrated on an epicurean selection of then-fresh faced soul-jazz musi ... More >>

Music Picks: Julieta Venegas, Deicide, Yefim Bronfman, Chick Corea and Gary Burton

Also Conspiracy of Beards, Lykke Li, Khaira Arby and others

Music to Pick Up/Download

Airto Moreira, Brazilian Percussion Legend (and "Bitches Brew" Sideman) Playing Intimate Gig...at Footsie's?

Miles Davis' Percussionist Brings Brazil to Footsie's

Brick's Picks: YOU MUST GO SEE ORNETTE COLEMAN, OK?

Tonight: Seven Saturdays, Herbie Hancock celebration, Ty Segall, Princeton, Busdriver

May we invite Jonathan D. Haskell inside your head? It'll only take a few minutes, really. There. Now relax. Haskell makes ambient music under the name Seven Saturdays, the kind of stuff that belongs in movies that haven't been made yet, or maybe even imagined. His orchestrated tomes are are par ... More >>

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

Brick's Picks: The World's a Jazz Stage

This Weekend: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Rage Against the Machine, Robyn, Jackson Browne, Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban, Delta Spirit

via MySpaceMiguel Atwood-Ferguson​Tonight's installment of Grand Performances at California Plaza -- one of our town's finest, free music al fresco opportunities -- figures to be especially grand. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, the composer/producer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist who boasts a resume ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Thao and Mirah With the Most of All, We Barbarians, Line and Circle

Photo by John VandersliceThao and Mirah​Bay Area-based indie-folk songstresses Thao Nguyen and Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn each has built estimable catalogs over the past several years, Nguyen under her tongue-twisting moniker Thao With the Get Down Stay Down and Mirah as, well, Mirah. They teamed u ... More >>

Brick's Picks: That Old-Time Jazz Religion

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The Hollywood Bowl Announces Its 2010 Schedule

​Is it that time already? Yes, for the 89th time, it is. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association just announced the line-up for the 2010 Hollywood Bowl season, and despite its age, the outdoor beauty will stage a few firsts: Gustavo Dudamel's first Bowl subscription concerts as music direct ... More >>

First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz

First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz MP3

Busy LA Weekend: Dudamel, Yorke, Byrne, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Faithfull

Busy weekend of music ahead, one of the most action-packed of the season. We, in fact, are being pulled in about six different directions. Tonight, if you're lucky and/or connected, you may be at Thom Yorke and band's first ever show, which is at the Echoplex. Across town in Pasadena, David Byrn ... More >>

Abstract Truths

Jazz Bakery Bows Out, but the Groove Goes On

Brick's Picks: Blue Note 7, Ravi Coltrane, Stones Reed Man Tim Ries and more

Brick's Picks: Wayne Shorter at Disney, Mundell Lowe at Giannelli Square, Ralph Alessi at Ramada Hollywood

Brick's Picks: Blue Note Specials

What not to miss this week

USC Thornton School of Music Announces New Popular Music Performance Program

Wanna be famous as a superstar musician? Learn how to bed groupies by the sheer force and magnetism of your stage strut? Find out which hallucinogens will help best develop the plot of your career-defining Concept Album? Before now, you'd have bang your head against your snare a few times, have to s ... More >>

Centerfolds and Saxophones

Jazz in L.A., June 13-19

Hot Week for Latin Lovers

Latin Jazz Festival 2008 at the Greek, plus spicy fare at Catalina, Jazz Bakery

Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>

Fall Harvest

While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

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Fall Harvest While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

Queen Week

What to do in Los Angeles this week

(Powdered) Sugar Walls

The Grammy parties and the pod people

DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, MF Doom—No Shit!

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

Film Reviews

For the week of April 14 - 20

Tripping Quincy Jones . . . and Other Scenes From EG 2006

Laptop Laserium

Used in concert by Seal — Seal! — G-Force is one trippy-ass program

Strut That Art

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

Big Weird Fun

Funked up, bumming you out and completely down: Electric Miles still charged for days

Birth of the Cruel

Progressive jazz for your silent night

Into the Cauldron

Why Do You Think They Call ’Em Hams?