Benny Goodman

Review: Ben Goldberg shows many sides over two albums

2013-02-19 11:35:00

There are few instruments in jazz that seem so tied to a single period like the clarinet. The instrument of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and New Orleans hot jazz, the horn is a relative outlier these days with practitioners such as Anat Cohen, Ken...

Patty Andrews dies at 94; Andrews Sisters' last surviving member

2013-01-30 14:34:00

They were the swinging, sassy voice of the homefront for U.S. service personnel overseas during World War II, singing catchy hit tunes such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Rum and Coca Cola" that delighted Americans and catapulted the Andrews Sisters to...

It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

2012-11-23 08:00:00

It's word association time. Say the first word that springs to mind: "holiday ----." Did you think "season"? "Sale"? "Hangover"? How about "music?" This year, there are plenty of new holiday albums to pick from. Cee Lo Green, English pop-rocker Tracey...

From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'

2012-12-05 11:28:00

Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...

Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards'

2012-07-22 00:00:00

-------------------- The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire Ted Gioia Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95 -------------------- I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...

Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013

2011-08-23 18:31:00

Breaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...

Teddy Charles dies at 84; jazz vibraphonist and composer

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Teddy Charles, a jazz vibraphonist who performed with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and other bebop-era jazz greats before becoming a charter boat captain in the Caribbean, died Monday at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead on New York's...

Racing aboard the Great Lakes schooner Denis Sullivan

2012-01-22 00:00:00

At dawn on the dock, a few sailors kiss spouses and dogs goodbye. Then we muster on the quarterdeck: 17 crew (nine volunteers and eight professional sailors) ranging from a 19-year-old South Carolina college student to a 76-year-old Michigan farmer. I...

PASSINGS: Larry Zarian, Paul Kent, Marty Harris

2011-10-15 00:00:00

Larry Zarian Former Glendale mayor and TV, radio host Larry Zarian, 73, a former mayor of Glendale and the first Armenian American to be elected to the City Council, died of blood cancer Thursday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Zarian also served...

PASSINGS: Howard H 'Tim' Hays

2011-10-16 00:00:00

Howard H 'Tim' Hays Former Press-Enterprise editor, publisher Howard H "Tim" Hays, 94, a former editor and publisher of the Press-Enterprise who led the Riverside newspaper when it won a Pulitzer Prize for an expose in the 1960s and won two landmark U....

Beryl Davis dies at 87; British-born singer became a star in America

2011-11-01 00:00:00

Beryl Davis, a British-born singer who became a star in America performing with Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman during the big-band era, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 87. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer's disease, according to...

The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett

2011-09-08 16:33:13

Vocalist Amanda Carr is cast in the role of Peggy Lee on July 27 at 6:30 p.m. in "A Tribute to Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee" at the Simsbury Performing Arts Center. Everett Longstreth and His Orchestra celebrate the big band sounds of Goodman. Tickets: $8 for lawn seats and $12 for table seats.

2012-07-07 00:00:00

Benny Goodman returned to the old Hull House mansion on Halsted Street in 1977, where he took his first clarinet lessons more than 50 years earlier.

2012-01-27 07:54:12

Benny Goodman plays in a public school band concert in 1954. The conductor James Sylvester, Goodman's Hull House clarinet teacher.

2012-01-27 07:53:43