Brick Wahl

It's been a sweet summer, so cool, the heat sneaking in only at the end. The festivals have been good, as have the free concerts everywhere. Alas, it's ...

Trumpeter Bobby Bradford brings his Mo'tet back to LACMA on Friday. Sure, Bradford has major avant-garde credentials, and his work with John Carter was way ...

Bennie Maupin brings his group to the World Stage on Friday and Saturday. It's $20, they don't serve drinks, the place is a storefront with folding chai...

Looks like one of those weeks packed with great music, and Friday is the craziest. Bassist Henry Franklin's quartet is at LACMA at 6 p.m., doing their '...

When you think jazz you don't think sweet old ladies sniffing the flowers in Descanso Gardens, but that joint booked the Elliott Caine Quintet this Thursday, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Just shell out the regular eight bucks to get into the park and stroll the grounds and don't let anyone catch......

Jazz festivals in this town throughout the year range from huge (Playboy at the Bowl) to tiny (the L.A. Jazz Collective's club-sized doings). Of all of them...

Grammy-winning pianist Bill Cunliffereprises his tribute to Oliver Nelson "Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2" on Friday at the Radisson in Culver City. We recall the debut well enough, performed before a packed house at the Vic in Santa Monica. It was beautiful. Every jazz fan knows Nelson's album,......

We can't recall the first time we ever saw Dale Fielder, but we remember the first time we ever heard him. It was a live CD from the Howling Monk, and the j...

Independence Day weekend has always been good for John Phillip Sousa but bad for jazz. Seems everyone is out picnicking and watching fireworks — or at least drinking and playing with sparklers — and not in the clubs, so we were pleasantly surprised to see such a strong run of......

Starting with the straight-ahead, we see saxist Gil Bernal is doing one of his from-the-heart trio things in the dinner slot at Café 322 on Friday, 6-8 p.m. Trumpeter James Smith is Houston-born, close enough to New Orleans to give his horn hints of the Crescent City. He's at Charlie......