[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.] It is now March. Begrudgingly, the winter is unlocking its jaws and giving way to the thaw. Co ... More >>
Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>
Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>
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 >>
Friday, September 7 Fresh & Onlys THE ECHO San Francisco's Fresh & Onlys have always been a formidable little band, but sometimes it seems they get a little squished between local-to-them indie giants like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees. However, let us tell you -- this new album Long Slow Dance has g ... More >>
Friday, August 3 Rusko AVALON Quite possibly the most honest man in dubstep, Leeds-born, L.A.-dwelling producer Rusko has taken responsibility for the existence of the much-maligned "brostep" trend -- which is to say, injecting the dark atmospherics and effects of the original genre with a distinct ... More >>
Also, Beachwood Sparks, Jesca Hoop, Ravi Coltrane and others
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 >>
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 >>
The latest chef to step behind the virtual turntable at KCRW is Jonathan Waxman, who returns to his Southern California roots in his set for the radio station's Guest DJ Project. Waxman, the chef/owner of Barbuto in New York City and author Italian My Way, has a short but diverse list that includes ... More >>
Also, Leon Russell, Chris Brown, Azar Lawrence Quintet and others
[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.] Now that we have been released from the grips of August and go deeper into September, I a ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana
PHOTO BY STAR FOREMANSteven Ellison, aka Flying LotusThe great nephew of jazz legend John Coltrane might be expected, destined to become a music titan himself. But Echo Park's Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, who Chris Martins profiles in our print edition, was dead set on a career in film, ... More >>
PHOTO BY STAR FOREMANSteven Ellison, aka Flying LotusThe great nephew of jazz legend John Coltrane might be expected, destined to become a music titan himself. But Echo Park's Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, who Chris Martins profiles in our print edition, was dead set on a career in film, ... More >>
PHOTO BY STAR FOREMANSteven Ellison, aka Flying LotusThe great nephew of jazz legend John Coltrane might be expected, destined to become a music titan himself. But Echo Park's Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, who Chris Martins profiles in our print edition, was dead set on a career in film, ... More >>
Legendary composer-performer Terry Riley is the creator of such groundbreaking "Minimalist" works as In C, A Rainbow In Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and, with the Kronos Quartet, decidedly un-Minimalist works as Cadenza on the Night Plain and Salome Dances for Peace. He'll perform solo and in collabora ... More >>
An L.A. collective conjures California creative soul music with a lot of improvisational elements
An L.A. collective conjures California creative soul music with a lot of improvisational elements
An L.A. collective conjures California creative soul music with a lot of improvisational elements
Also: Vocalist Nnenna Freelon, Five Peace Band with Corea, McLaughlin and Garrett
Also, Michael Gira, The Pretenders, Foreign Born, and others
Also, Michael Gira, The Pretenders, Foreign Born, and others
And Seun Kuti's Afro-funk groove
Sanders, Garrett and Lloyd blow into town
A legendary underground jazz movie returns
A legendary underground jazz movie returns
Coleman, Brubeck and more usher in a swinging autumn
Richard Grant leaves home base for a show at Café 322
Ravi Coltrane at Catalina, and other picks
Turtle Island Quartet at the Jazz Bakery, and more
Thom Rotella plays for a good cause; Royce Hall echoes with sounds from modern Brazil and ancient Persia
Thom Rotella plays for a good cause; Royce Hall echoes with sounds from modern Brazil and ancient Persia
Masters of Persian Music at UCLA
Alice Coltrane and Carl Stone
Alice Coltrane and Carl Stone
What kind of idiot’s never seen Sonny Rollins?
What kind of idiot’s never seen Sonny Rollins?
What kind of idiot’s never seen Sonny Rollins?
What I Saw at the Parisian Room
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, beyond the footnotes
Life and violins at the school that Flea built
Cecil Taylor has evolved you
Cecil Taylor has evolved you
I listened to ’em, honest
Patti Smith speaks
Jimmie Maddin on the L.A. scene circa the '40s & '50s
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