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Louis Armstrong

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums Of 2011

    ​The best albums of 2011 from Los Angeles artists came from a suitably diverse Angeleno cast of characters; there are rappers and singers, legends and transplants, folks with great careers in front of them, and those who may have peaked this year. One thing's clear: it was unquestionably a gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Top Five Most Embarrassing Early-'80s Soul Sell-Outs

    Larry Graham​By Sean O'Connell This Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl you'll be able to catch Larry Graham, wedged between performances by sand-swept Spyro Gyra and saxophone loverboy Dave Koz. But, Graham is a pioneering funk bassist, so why the heck is he a part of the Bowl's Smooth Summer Jazz ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    The House of Ella

    Larry Graham​By Sean O'Connell This Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl you'll be able to catch Larry Graham, wedged between performances by sand-swept Spyro Gyra and saxophone loverboy Dave Koz. But, Graham is a pioneering funk bassist, so why the heck is he a part of the Bowl's Smooth Summer Jazz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Pulitzer-Prize Winner Jonathan Gold Writes Moving Nate Dogg Obituary for LA Weekly

    Christopher Victorio for OC WeeklyMr. and Mrs. Broadus before Nate Dogg's memorial service Saturday ​ Within the structure of a classic G-funk track, a musical form as precise as a Mozart string quintet, after the opening skit, the establishment of the minimal beat, the rapper's expository ver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    SXSW Recap: Japan Nite Raises Money for Earthquake Relief

    photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World

    photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

  • Music

    January 20, 2011

    Brck's Picks: Hard-Ass Jazz

    photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 2, 2010

    LOUIS

    photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2010

    Uptown Downtown

    photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

  • Music

    November 18, 2010

    BRICK'S PICKS: BOUNCING OFF THESE HOLY WALLS

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Redtop's Boogie

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Up the Wazoo

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... 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

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

    By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    Notes From the Music Blog: Louis Armstrong’s Pot Habit

    Plus, Richard Branson’s foray into Above & Beyond

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Louis Armstrong's Marijuana Bust in Culver City: Never Smoke Weed in a Club's Parking Lot

    ​There's a great little anecdote in the new Louis Armstrong biography, Pops, written by Terry Teachout, about the trumpeter and his predilection for marijuana. The story reveals the truth that as long as you've got music clubs and parking lots, the chronic will surely follow. Armstrong, writes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    Happy Thanksgiving: We've Gone Fishing

    Enjoy your long weekend. Squid Ink is taking the holiday off. Although we haven't really gone fishing, here's the Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby soundtrack to our metaphorical fishing trip. (We were going to post a Gone Hunting video, that being more menu-driven, but all those YouTube videos showed ... More >>

  • Music

    June 25, 2009

    On the Road to Burma

    Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

  • Eat+Drink

    May 14, 2009

    Tavern, Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne's Westward Expansion

    California cool

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2009

    Comedy is Dead Returns to Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Headliner Patton Oswalt

    Comedy is Dead, the excellent comedy and music revue which brightens up Hollywood Forever Cemetery's hallowed Masonic hall from time to time, was back in full force on Thursday night, and Duncan Trussell - one of the comics performing as well as one of the organizers of the show - had some question ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2008

    John McCain's Favorite Songs of the Past 100 Years

    Blender recently posted a list of John McCain's favorite songs. Sure, you could make fun of him for choosing kinda gay stuff like Perez Hilton did, but the more telling fact is that the most recent song on this list is more than thirty years old. Think about that. Thirty-one years have come and ... More >>

  • Music

    July 24, 2008

    Brick's Pick's: Central Avenue Jazz Festival

    Blender recently posted a list of John McCain's favorite songs. Sure, you could make fun of him for choosing kinda gay stuff like Perez Hilton did, but the more telling fact is that the most recent song on this list is more than thirty years old. Think about that. Thirty-one years have come and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2008

    SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying

    A Pitchfork party without Sparks? That's like Eliot Spitzer without whores: fatigued, thirsty and miserable. And rest assured, Sparks flowed like the River Ganges, even going as far to sponsor the bash, which wasn't really as bad as it was boring. A bunch of people sitting in bleachers trying t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2008

    SXSW Day 3: Pissed Jeans, Valet, White Rabbits, Thurston Moore, and an impregnated brain

    Last night. Last night? Umm, last night ... What the heck did I do last night? Wait. Where the hell am I? In a hotel room, okay ... yeah ... good. At least I'm safe. Okay, now, what the hell did I do again? Jeez. Think. Flashes is all I got, and one grainy image on my cell phone. A half a taco on m ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 20, 2007

    Magical Mystery Tour

    Bastide reopens

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Eli Presser

    Pulling strings

  • Music

    April 19, 2007

    Last Call

    Herman Riley’s horn falls silent

  • Stage

    February 22, 2007

    Weekend Theater Reviews

    Including Altar Boyz, Bent, Kimberly Akimbo and more

  • LA Life

    February 8, 2007

    Sweet Val-en-tine (Bump, Bump Bahhh!)

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Stage

    September 7, 2006

    The Tomorrow Show

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    White Washing

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2006

    Archive

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Music

    January 12, 2006

    Lou Rawls, 1933-2006

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2005

    Heaux, Heaux, Heaux!

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Getting Out

    Scenes from the overture to a modern reconstruction

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Way Down Yonder

    New Orleans: The heart of the matter

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    The Battle of a Band

    Maetar explodes a world of funky stuff

  • Music

    November 27, 2003

    Nicholas Payton, Post-Satch

    Maetar explodes a world of funky stuff

  • Film+TV

    June 6, 2002

    Un Certain Disregard

    The 55th Cannes film festival

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2001

    Creation Myth

    Drugs and musicians, together forever

  • Art+Books

    March 29, 2001

    Bada Bing

    Gary Giddins’ bio of the great white jazzbo

  • Film+TV

    January 18, 2001

    All That Ken Burns

    Jazz ain’t got that swing

  • Stage

    January 18, 2001

    Nick Stewart,
    1910–2000

    Jazz ain’t got that swing

  • Eat+Drink

    January 4, 2001

    Someone’s in the Kitchen

    Jazz ain’t got that swing

  • Music

    November 9, 2000

    A Room for Music

    Jazz ain’t got that swing

  • Music

    November 18, 1999

    Altered Chords

    Artie Shaw on music, God, sex & fame

  • Music

    November 19, 1998

    New Standards

    Marcus Roberts' assimilation and re-expression

  • Music

    September 24, 1998

    Let's Get Dead

    Music for the modern zombie

  • Music

    March 19, 1998

    Jazz Central

    Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles

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