Entertainment & Arts
The Orange County Women’s Chorus showed real skill and musicianship in a concert of serious works Saturday night, but little of the passion needed to engage listeners and bring the music to life.
June 12, 2000
Music
The increasing compartmentalization of the music world is placing at risk albums that don’t easily fit into any single category.
Oct. 17, 1999
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As intensely personal as music can be, it’s still a social force. Playing guitar with a band.
Jan. 25, 2001
Record companies specializing in jazz have come and gone for nearly a century.
Aug. 26, 2001
World Music* Forget the charts. Gypsy groups and others that didn’t necessarily make a sales dent were standouts in an otherwise lackluster year.
Dec. 28, 2001
Andy Summers is best known as the guitarist with the popular rock group the Police.
Oct. 6, 2000
Gerry Mulligan’s arrival in Los Angeles in the early ‘50s--reportedly after hitchhiking out from New York--had a singular effect on West Coast jazz.
Aug. 2, 2002
The group Oregon always has been a bit difficult to decipher musically.
May 11, 2000
The ‘80s and ‘90s may have been the guitar decades for jazz (along with the return of bebop), but the first few years of the new century are beginning to shape up as a new era in jazz singing.
Aug. 12, 2001
Alexander Hamilton of Inglewood has worked with dozens of well-known entertainers--Aretha Franklin, Ben Vereen and Liza Minnelli, for example--but the performers closest to his heart, he says, are the Voices of Inspiration, the gospel choir he led to first place in a competition last weekend.
June 16, 1985