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When you say jazz, Nicholas Payton hears BAM
In a cramped UCLA classroom, trumpeter Nicholas Payton is leading a young septet of college students through his piece "The Backwards Step." He's here as part of a weeklong teaching residency, and the song he plays to the group at the Thelonious Monk...
Tags: Music, Branford Marsalis, Thelonious Monk, Richie Havens, Entertainment
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Coachella 2013: Red Hot Chili Peppers lack a certain spice
INDIO -- "I feel like I'm in 'Lawrence of Arabia,' " Anthony Kiedis said Sunday night, not long after Red Hot Chili Peppers had taken the main stage at Coachella for the final headlining performance of the three-day festival. Kiedis was referring to the...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Foods and Beverages, Entertainment Events, Chili
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A gathering of body and soul at Cheyann Benedict's new boutique
T-shirts were once novelty items: Disneyland giveaways for deeply uncool vacationers, concert keepsakes for the young and disheveled, kitschy thrift-store finds for young women with hair in Princess Leia buns. But in the last decade the garments have...
Tags: Christina Hendricks, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Rick Owens, Fashion Trends, Rihanna
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Jerry Buss dies: Pau Gasol, Dennis Rodman, musician Flea react
Tweets of admiration continue to roll in for Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who died Monday at the age of 80. A sampling: Lakers forward Pau Gasol: "Today is a very sad day for all the Lakers and basketball. All my support and condolences to the Buss family....
Tags: Dennis Rodman, Jerry Buss, Pau Gasol
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Austin Peralta, jazz pianist and Flying Lotus collaborator, dead at 22
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticAustin Peralta, the 22-year-old jazz piano prodigy, composer and son of professional skater Stacy Peralta, has died. Flying Lotus, the beat producer and labelhead who released Peralta's music, confirmed the news Thursday morning via Twitter, writing:...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Speakeasy (music group)
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NCAA sure knows how to ruin a party
They opened the shiny, new Pauley Pavilion Friday night amid pomp and less-than-desired circumstance. The first game in the $136-million redo of outdated Pauley was preceded by loud music, speeches, floodlights, laser beams and fancy graphics on a big...
Tags: Mike Brown (basketball), Sports, Basketball, University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana State Sycamores
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Review: Patti Smith rocks the Wiltern with Flea and Depp
This post has been corrected. See below for details. Among the pleas and invectives, yowls and barks coming from Patti Smith on stage at the Wiltern on Friday, the bellowed cries of “free money!” “Gloria!” and “Pussy Riot!&...
Tags: Johnny Depp, Bruce Springsteen, Music, Patti Smith, Joan Osborne
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Southern California Close-Ups: Los Angeles' park neighborhoods
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on March 20, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's not easy being the lungs of Los Angeles. But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even...Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Dave Eggers, Don Drysdale, Music, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Adam Yauch dies at 47; Beastie Boys' rapper MCA
It had only been a few years since Adam Yauch had found fame as the in-your-face rapper and bass player MCA in the transgressive, boundary-breaking trio the Beastie Boys.
But in 1992 he was searching for something else, traveling in Nepal to snowboard...Tags: The Messenger (movie, 2009), Concerts, Banksy, Madonna, Music
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Album review: Damon Albarn's 'Dr Dee'
Pop & HissDamon Albarn seems about as busy as a pop star can be. In March the frontman of both Blur and Gorillaz released “Rocket Juice & the Moon,” a trippy Afro-funk disc he made with drummer Tony Allen and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers; next... -
In Rotation: Rocket Juice & the Moon's eponymous debut
Pop & HissIn Rotation: Times pop music critic Randall Roberts recommends "Rocket Juice & the Moon," the new project by Damon Albarn, Tony Allen and Flea.... -
A Tony Bennett revival? They're singing his song
By his own admission, Tony Bennett doesn't get nervous often. But he was anxious that day, more than 50 years ago, when he was filling in for Perry Como as host on the crooner's variety television show.
"Como had a big orchestra and great stars," Bennett...Tags: Television, Nine Inch Nails (music group), Dixie Chicks (music group), k.d. lang, Retirement
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