Sean J. O'Connell

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer. As both a Bruin and a Laker, he is a pillar of Los Angeles basketball. On Friday, Nov. 16, he will have his jersey number retired, and a statue of him will be unveiled outside Staples Center. That's fine and all, but......

Pianist and producer Mark de Clive-Lowe is a man of the world. Splitting his childhood between New Zealand and Japan, he has also called Boston and London home before settling here in sunny Los Angeles. Today he'll be celebrating the two year anniversary of his monthly residency Church at the......

Grizzly Bear Greek Theatre 10-10-12 See also: Our review of Animal Collective and Flying Lotus at Hollywood Bowl, 9/23/12 Grizzly Bear, the musical emblems of Williamsburg, played a solid, nearly two hour set at the Greek Theatre last night. The quartet, boosted by a Phantom of the Opera-esque keyboardist looming......

Angel City Jazz Festival Ford Amphitheatre 10-7-12 Is the Angel City Jazz Festival the best jazz festival in Los Angeles? It depends on how you measure it. If you are going by quality of acts, quantity of acts, accessibility of venue, price of parking or friendliness of crowd, then yes,......

October 5,6,7,13,14 Angel City Jazz Festival LACMA, UCLA, Redcat, Ford Amphitheatre The theme of the fifth annual Angel City Jazz Festival is "artists and legends" which might as well be the theme for L.A.'s whole jazz scene in October. Legendary L.A. trombonist Phil Ranelin hits LACMA on Friday night while......

Wilco and Joanna Newsom Hollywood Bowl 9-30-12 Better than...waiting for the Sepulveda Pass to re-open. Wilco's name has graced more marquees in Los Angeles this year than a majority of bands that actually live here. Last night, under a full moon and amid looming Santa Ana winds, Wilco wrapped up......

Animal Collective & Flying Lotus Hollywood Bowl 9-23-12 Better than... shrooming while watching the Emmys. See also: *The Time Flying Lotus Pretended To Be A UCLA Physics Major *Flying Lotus - Coachella - 4-14-12 The Hollywood Bowl is not the venue for working out new shit, that is if you......

Cabeza de Vaca Orchestra presents Sunrise Downtown Independent 9-20-12 Jimi Cabeza de Vaca (yes, that is his real name) got his start playing keyboards over ten years ago with South Bay indie rockers dios. His ethereal keyboard contributions pushed the band to the brink of stardom, opening for acts like......

Fridays, September 7th, 14th, 21st JazzPop w/ Mark Dessen, Vinny Golia, Aram Shelton Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum likes to sneak in great jazz performances with little fanfare, don't they? This is Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa's seventh year curating the JazzPop series, moving it one month later than the......