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Bill Cosby makes more Playboy Jazz Festival memories
As a jazz fan, you really have to savor the select moments of the Playboy Jazz Festival, which began its 34th installment Saturday at its longtime home, the Hollywood Bowl. Because as a stand-alone, multi-day barometer of the state of the music, the...
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Jazz review: Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl
Culture MonsterWynton Marsalis and the JLCO continue their mission as ambassadors of jazz at the Hollywood Bowl in a night punctuated by a tribute to the late James Moody.... -
Billboard Hot 100 notches 1,000th No. 1 single: From Ricky Nelson to Lady Gaga
Pop & HissLady Gaga has snagged a piece of pop music history in landing the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with her new single “Born This Way.” Even more significant than posting the highest first-week digital sales...... -
England: Arts and Crafts in the Cotswolds
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI was recently invited to review a superb jazz festival in Cheltenham, about two hours west of London, in the Cotswolds. "You're going to the Cotswolds?" my friends gushed. "Yes," I said. " Hugh Masekela will be there. And Jack DeJohnette. Nigel...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Eyes and Vision, Blur (music group), Kate Winslet, Furniture
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Celebrations Underway As World Cup Begins
Associated PressJOHANNESBURG -- The first World Cup ever held in Africa opened Friday in a dazzling burst of joy, color and noise - and just a tinge of sadness. Before a jubilant, horn-blowing crowd in Soccer City, the spectacular stadium between Johannesburg and...Tags: Desmond Tutu, Multi-Sport Events, FIFA World Cup, Heads of State, Government
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Flashback Friday: Was L.A. ever more cool than in the 1960s?
The Big PictureI've been revisiting the swinging '60s in recent days, working on an upcoming post about what Hollywood was like four decades ago when the "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" generation took over the movie business. But the records that came out...... -
Jazz Fest Lineup for 2009 Here!
40th ANNIVERSARY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY SHELL Weekend One Music Lineup April 24 - 26 Friday, April 24 Wynton Marsalis, Joe Cocker, Spoon, Drive-By Truckers and Booker T., Henry Butler, Tab Benoit, Trombone Shorty & Orleans...Tags: John Mayall, Dr. John (music artist), Disc Jockeys, Family, Loyola Ramblers
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At Whisky A Go-Go, applause for co-founder Elmer Valentine
They came to West Hollywood on Monday night not to bury one of the celebrated figures in L.A. music's storied past, but to praise him.
A few hundred family members, friends, former employees and just plain fans of Whisky A Go-Go co-founder Elmer...Tags: Elvis Costello, John Mayall, Bars and Clubs, Disc Jockeys, Humphrey Bogart
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2009 New Orleans Jazz Fest lineup
The first weekend roster includes : Wynton Marsalis, Dave Matthews Band, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Earth Wind & Fire, Wilco, Spoon, Erykah Badu, Irma Thomas, Orishas, Third World, Robert Cray, Etta James & the Roots Band, Mavis Staples, Drive-By...Tags: John Mayall, Dr. John (music artist), Disc Jockeys, Family, Loyola Ramblers
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Miriam Makeba dies at 76; South African singer spent 31 years in exile
Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who for more than half a century brought the intricate rhythms of her native land to millions of listeners around the world and whose role as a spokeswoman against apartheid subjected her to 31 years of exile,...Tags: Paul Simon, Italy, Demonstration, Stokely Carmichael, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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