The 16th annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival is our fave local jazz fest, and it happens this weekend. Saturday highlights include the extraordinary Pan Afrikan...
TALE OF THE WHALE
We are writing this during Carmageddon weekend, and we planned a whole bit about being trapped on the Glendale Freeway for days as the city...
Since we gave baritone saxist Dale Fielder an over-the-top plus last week, we should, out of fairness to this town's three or four other saxophonists, completely ignore him this week. Those are the rules set by the Jazz Critics Guild way back in Leonard Feather's day. But there's the new......
Let's take off at a gallop, since there's a lot of it, beginning with veteran drummer Clayton Cameron's sextet at LACMA on Friday. No word on the lineup, but Cameron has the habit of drumming with some pretty great company, so we're betting this will be pretty damn good. On......
It's hard to imagine a more patriotic bunch than jazz musicians. There ain't one that doesn't fly the flag from his pad every day, and come national...
They didn't pop out of an egg or anything, so you may not have noticed that the Spanish Harlem Orchestra won a Grammy this year in the Tropical category for...
We had a helluva weekend at the Playboy Jazz Festival. There was some great jazz and killer funk, and Eddie Palmieri was so freaking great he blew our minds. Jackson Browne even read an awful poem. Finally Buddy Guy had people getting naked everywhere — even some critics we won’t......
Things have been rough at NARAS, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. You probably couldn't tell, not with their two big buildings and a brand new museum and certainly the Awards telecast with all its rock stars and movie stars and high priced commercials. That thing alone looks......
The Gerald Wilson Orchestra is at Catalina on Sunday. We raved about his show there last time, but it was actually better than we even raved it would be. He was...
Eric Dolphy is just too wild. That sound of his is just too intense for most jazz listeners, let alone anyone else. You won't hear him on the radio, excepting KPFK. You don't hear about Eric Dolphy Day, either. It's not till June 20, but we're not expecting much. When......
