Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins may cancel April 20 Los Angeles show

2013-03-05 12:25:00

Impassioned L.A. fans of Sonny Rollins (you know who you are) may have to wait a while longer to hear the legendary jazz saxophonist perform live at a venue near us. Rollins has posted on his website and Facebook that he's been under the weather and...

Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz trumpeter was a funk-fusion experimenter

2013-02-12 06:00:00

Jazz trumpeter and band leader Donald Byrd, whose clean, elegant phrasing made his reputation in the 1950s and '60s before he began experimenting in the '70s and '80s with jazz-funk-R&B fusions on discs such as "Black Byrd" and "Thank You ... for F.U.M.L....

Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator

2013-02-11 15:16:00

Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with hit jazz-funk fusion records such as "Black Byrd," has died. He was 80. He...

Lila Downs, Punch Brothers, Yann Tiersen coming to Luckman

2012-06-08 16:36:59

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...

Monster Mash: A starry night at Kennedy Center Honors

2011-12-05 16:33:13

[Updated] Fashion News: Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep gussy up for Kennedy Center Honors

2011-12-05 16:32:16

Arts on TV: Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Doctor Who; Sonny Rollins

2011-12-22 16:33:13

TV This Week for Dec. 25 – 31

2011-12-23 16:35:44

Monster Mash: NBC's 'Smash'; Big Daddy Roth museum

2011-12-27 16:33:02

Meryl Streep walks down memory lane with Hathaway, De Niro, Kline

2011-12-28 16:38:18

Grammy Awards 2012: Carrington and Corea among jazz winners

2012-02-12 21:32:51

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins plays Orchestra Hall in 2010.

2013-03-06 15:35:00

The inventive Chicago guitarist tours the world with tenor saxophonist colossus Sonny Rollins, but Broom is well worth hearing as bandleader in his own right, as he recently reiterated on his album "Upper West Side Story." 8 and 10 p.m. Jan. 24 through 26; 4, 8 and 10 p.m. Jan.

2013-01-04 10:30:00

From left, Broadway star Barbara Cook , singer Neil Diamond , musician Yo-Yo Ma , musician Sonny Rollins and actress Meryl Streep listen to President Barack Obama during the Kennedy Center Honors reception in the East Room of the White House .

2011-12-05 07:36:51