Terence Blanchard

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 8 Nickodemus SUBSUELO AT KOBO'S Nickodemus' multicultural Turntables on the Hudson compilations and New York City-based events have brought together flavorfully funky house and Latin-based sounds from around the world. The DJ then took the series global with his creation of the ongoin ... More >>

Music Picks: California Lions, Efterklang, Lucy Rose

Music Picks: Fishbone, the Growlers, Redd Kross

Music Picks: R. Kelly, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, August 13 Grandaddy THE FONDA In the year 2000, a group of schlubs from the California meth- and cow-town of Modesto released the perfect record to ring in the new millennium. It was called The Sophtware Slump, and its sun-dappled, spacey, sad-faced robot-pop seemed to capture so much about ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Ray Charles Tribute - Hollywood Bowl - 7/11/12

Ray Charles: Genius Soul = Jazz Hollywood Bowl 7-11-12 Better than... hanging out at the Ray Charles Post Office on Washington Boulevard. Last night, a parade of marquee-ready names hit the stage of the Hollywood Bowl in tribute to the "Genius of Soul," Ray Charles. Featuring Babyface, Martina M ... More >>

Chucho Valdes and Poncho Sanchez - Walt Disney Concert Hall - 2/16/11

Christina Limson O'ConnellPoncho and Terence channel Chano and Dizzy​ Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band Chucho Valdes & the Afro-Cuban Messengers Walt Disney Concert Hall 2-16-12 See also: *Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck *Marlon Brando R ... More >>

Marlon Brando Rocked the Conga Drums -- in Fact He Invented One

See also: Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter -- with M ... More >>

Music Picks: Roberta Flack, Summer Twins, John Cage Centenary Festival

Also, Spindrift, Lenny Kravitz, Dorian Wood, Howlin Rain and others

Walter Smith III Quintet - Blue Whale - 12/17/11

​Walter Smith III Quintet Blue Whale 12-17-11 Better than...a set by Thurston Howell III Houston-born saxophonist Walter Smith III is a busy man. His first-call tenor frequently shares the stage with some of the best young musicians out there, finding a particular affinity with trumpet playe ... More >>

Jazz Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's Five Favorite Film Soundtracks

​Interview by Sean O'Connell Trumpet player and New Orleans native Terence Blanchard is a very busy man, but when he isn't blasting his fiery, post-bop horn on a recording date or scoring the latest Hollywood drama, he always makes time for the stage. From August 19th through the 21st, Blan ... More >>

Brick's Picks: We Go to Playboy Jazz Festival for the Music

Brick's Picks: Full-Frontal Jazz

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 >>

Tonight: Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Chris Shiflett, Carbon Leaf, Crooked Cowboy

Femi Kuti​Need some positive force? Yeah, so do we. Olafela Olafemi Anikulapo Kuti (known as Femi), the son of Nigerian Afro-beat legend Fela Kuti, is renowned for live performances that feature exultant saxophone and even more celebratory dancing adding up to a sweaty spectacle of funk. But ... More >>

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

BEBOP A-LULA

Brick's Picks: Tableside With Legends

Brick's Picks: Here, There and Way Out There

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 >>

Celebrating Miles and Gil

With Christian MacBride, Terence Blanchard and Jimmy Cobb

Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

Brick's Picks: New Traditionalists, Old Innovators

Latin Playboys

The rhythm, in many shapes and sizes, lands in town this week

Festival Beating

Day of the Drum and Watts Towers Jazz Festival

Brick's Picks: Legends of the Fall

Coleman, Brubeck and more usher in a swinging autumn

Straight Outta Leimert Park

Richard Grant leaves home base for a show at Café 322

Will You Marionette Me

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Smoove Moves

Playboy Jazz Festival and other picks

Inside Job

Spike Lee puts a new spin on an old formula

Alligator on a Stick, San Pedro Punks and Luchadors

Forever Then

Truth or Consequences

Washington soars, Lee stumbles

Summer of Spike

On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas

Survival, Revivalle

Mutants, campers, martyrs . . .