Jazz (genre)

Q & A: Herbie Hancock discusses first International Jazz Day

2012-04-25 12:11:00

Have you started your International Jazz Day shopping yet? A global collaboration among the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Herbie Hancock and the Thelonious Monk Institute, the first International Jazz Day is...

Quick Takes: Grammy suit dismissed

2012-05-01 00:00:00

Grammy suit dismissed A New York judge has dismissed a suit aimed at forcing the Recording Academy to rescind its decision last year to slash the number of Grammy Awards from 109 to 78. Latin jazz musician Bobby Sanabria, one of those who filed the...

Jazz says its final goodbye on Los Angeles AM radio

2012-05-01 10:20:00

A silence has descended on Los Angeles' AM radio band. On April 2, KABC's longtime morning man, Doug McIntyre, acquiesced to his management’s request that he no longer program jazz.� Although he hosts a current events show 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays,...

Judge dismisses effort to reverse Grammy award reductions

2012-04-30 16:36:38

'Romeo and Juliet' ... and me

2012-05-01 18:29:00

It wasn't the words of Shakespeare that sprang to mind Monday night as I found myself sitting onstage at the $240-million Ren�e and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, surrounded by members of the Pacific Symphony, my trusty clarinet in my lap,...

Making a Federal case for jazz and more

2012-04-11 00:00:00

No one's ever called music impresario April Williams lazy. She began booking and producing music in the upstairs room at Vitello's restaurant in Studio City at the end of 2009. It's now one of the most coveted jazz spots — for musicians and...

Mike Melvoin dies at 74; studio musician, composer

2012-02-24 00:00:00

Mike Melvoin, a pianist/composer/arranger whose credits reach from Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys, and who was the first active musician to serve as national president of the Recording Academy, has died. He was 74. A...

Red Holloway dies at 84; Versatile L.A. jazz saxophonist

2012-02-27 00:00:00

Red Holloway, a tenor and alto saxophonist who was one of Los Angeles' most highly regarded jazz artists for more than four decades, died Saturday in San Luis Obispo. He was 84. The cause was kidney failure, complicated by several strokes, according to...

Quick chat: With John Densmore

2012-03-05 21:38:06

Robert Glasper's 'Black Radio': Is all that jazz?

2012-03-22 00:00:00

Something curious has been happening on the music landscape lately. In the span of a few weeks, a jazz artist with a critically lauded new album has hit the late-night TV circuit with performances on the David Letterman and Jay Leno shows, debuted at No....

Guitarist Charlie Hunter talks 'jam bands,' jazz and going it alone

2011-12-15 16:33:03

Review: Klezmatics at Walt Disney Concert Hall

2011-12-22 04:34:49

If you�re looking for other intoxicating tastes of tradition, you can't go wrong with Connecticut's Galvanized Jazz Band's take on ancient tunes, blues, rags and stomps at The Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival's Traditional Jazz and Blues Extravaganza July 28 at The Four Points by

2012-04-28 00:00:00

Josh Basel plays a solo on alto saxophone with the Musselman High School jazz band, Friday during the Blue Ridge Jazz Festival at Smithsburg High School.

2012-04-27 17:45:00

Southwest High School's jazz band performs during the Jimmie Cannon Jazz Fest on Thursday evening at the California Mid-Winter Fair & Fiesta.

2012-03-09 00:45:15