Billie Holiday

New York Fashion Week fall 2013: Band of Outsiders women's collection review

2013-02-10 11:32:00

NEW YORK -- Band of Outsiders creative director Scott Sternberg showed the label's fall 2013 women’s collection Saturday during New York Fashion Week. Inspiration: "I was listening to early '40s Billie Holiday and sort of researching that era,"...

Review: SFJAZZ Center makes a splash on opening night

2013-01-24 13:04:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Los Angeles, did you hear that? Given the laws of physics and the roughly 400-odd miles of distance, it's unlikely this week's opening of the $63-million SFJAZZ Center could be heard on the opposite end of the state (apart from its live...

Best of 2012 Pop Music: Reissues

2012-12-26 12:01:00

As much new music as was released in 2012, a large volume also came from the vaults, dredged up to be remarketed and reexamined. Below are 10 historical recordings -- a combination of reissues and/or archival releases -- that brought to the surface old...

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,...

Susan Tyrrell dies at 67; actress an Oscar nominee for 'Fat City'

2012-06-20 00:00:00

Susan Tyrrell, an eccentric, husky-voiced character actress best known for her Oscar-nominated supporting role as a blowsy barfly in director John Huston's 1972 movie "Fat City," has died. She was 67. Tyrrell died Saturday at her home in Austin, Texas,...

Joe Smith's candid artist talks heading to Library of Congress

2012-06-18 16:37:33

Album review: Fiona Apple's 'The Idler Wheel ...'

2012-06-19 16:37:42

‘A Cat in Paris’ animated film draws on French roots

2012-05-31 16:40:04

Walter L. Gordon Jr. dies; groundbreaking lawyer in era of segregation

2012-04-29 00:00:00

The legal establishment in Los Angeles was segregated in 1937 when African American attorney Walter L. Gordon Jr. pulled on a childhood connection to set up his new practice. The former newspaper carrier was given office space "three steps" from the...

Personal Playlist: Henry Rollins

2011-12-05 21:36:21

Jazz review: Jason Moran at the Hammer Museum

2011-12-16 16:32:58

As you watch and listen to "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," you might think that it's a simple period piece. Billie Holiday. Hard life. Drugs. Alcohol. Early death. Got it.

2013-03-20 12:56:00

The new year at Symphony Center's jazz series kicks off with vocalists Dianne Reeves, Angelique Kidjo and Lizz Wright paying homage to Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Odetta, Billie Holiday and other divas. 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $37-$84 at 312-294-3000 or cso.org

2013-01-04 11:22:00

Nothing will make you want to take a vacation in your own state like the "Maryland in Photographs" board built by the Maryland Office of Tourism.

2012-03-12 10:29:25