Rogers are among jazz luminaries headlining the 18th annual Orange Coast College Jazz Festival Thursday through Sunday at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
Some of the most creative music in town is issuing nightly from the bandstand at the Hyatt Sunset's Silver Screen Room.
headway with its musical policy, devoted primarily to singers Wednesdays through Saturdays, with the occasional instrumental evening by a jazz combo.
From Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham to Alvin Ailey, Donald McKayle and beyond, choreographers depicting the American black experience have insisted that outsiders recognize the dignity and spirituality in even the most celebratory black dance styles.
The injury to Utah Jazz guard Darrell Griffith is worse than originally thought, and he probably
The CalArts Jazz Ensemble received the highest honors in the small ensemble category at the 28th
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The Detroit Pistons traded forwards Kelly Tripucka and Kent Benson to the Utah Jazz Thursday for
Lorez Alexandria, one of jazz music's "second tier" of female singers whose both names need
Abbey Lincoln's career has taken many turns.
There was nothing wrong with the first Los Angeles Blues Festival that a change in weekends wouldn't cure (the more established Long Beach Blues Festival, which will be held next weekend, may have simply overshadowed it).
Billy Bang won the 1981 Downbeat Critics' Poll in the Talent Deserving Wider Recognition category for violin, but there's no love lost between the New York-based musician and the instrument.
Julius Erving will pass up the multi-million dollar offer sheet of the Utah Jazz to remain with the
audience warm with a convivial presentation of Dixieland classics at Saturday's Jazz at Ojai, held outdoors in Ojai's Libbey Park Bowl.
Just 10 years ago this month, Polish pianist Adam Makowicz (who opens Tuesday for a three-day run at Catalina's) played his first American job.
"I'll write something for a group and apply my bass to it after the fact," explained jazz-rock bassist Jeff Berlin.
When Jim Walker walked out on the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he knew exactly what he was doing.
Bobby Hutcherson, who opened Thursday at Concerts by the Sea and will be on hand through Sunday, is the most technically adroit and hardest swinging vibraphonist of his generation.
Mundell Lowe, the guitarist and composer who for the last three years has been musical director of the Monterey Jazz Festival, has resigned.
Lorez Alexandria knows where the best songs are and has always known the perfect way to treat them.