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Book review: 'Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World' by John Szwed
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World John Szwed Viking: 438 pp., $29.95 Alan Lomax was a titanic figure whose ambitions were even greater than his formidable energies. Beginning his career as a folklorist in the 1930s with field recordings of...Tags: Culture, Folk (genre), The Washington Post, Woody Guthrie, Book
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Wynton Marsalis swings for the fences
Wynton Marsalis is explaining jazz to me by talking about my boots. He is coming to Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend to play his ambitious new composition, "Swing Symphony," with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But before we get into musical details,...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Hugh Masekela, Culture, Leonard Bernstein, Bill Cosby
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Ambrose Akinmusire plays it his way
Even if you haven't yet heard of Ambrose Akinmusire, you might think you know what his lauded new album "When the Heart Emerges Glistening" sounds like. Jazz — particularly jazz trumpet — is a loaded business, one in which swaths of...Tags: Music Industry, Terence Blanchard, Thelonious Monk, Genres, Dizzy Gillespie
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Rock on: Archive 1887 rock T-shirts come with a music history lesson
All The RageIt's all well and good to buy a T-shirt emblazoned with an iconic image from the annals of rock 'n' roll â plenty of street-wear brands offer them. But when you pick up a rock tee from luxe T-shirt brand...... -
Music review: 'Professor Bad Trip' invades Monday Evening Concerts
Culture MonsterâProfessor Bad Tripâ is Fausto Romitelliâs most ecstatic plunge into psychedelia and spectralism. The Doors meet -â and unapologetically drown out -â Pierre Boulez. Completed in 2000, an Italian composerâs nearly 45-minute confrontation... -
'George Condo: A Collection of Etchings' at the Rutberg gallery, June 18 to Sept. 3
All The RageWorks by contemporary American artist George Condo will be part of an exhibition at the Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery on La Brea Avenue from June 18 to Sept. 3. Unless you can wear one of the works, of what...... -
A conversation with 'Oriental Jazz' legend Lloyd Miller, and free download
Pop & HissOne of 2010âs most overlooked albums belonged to Lloyd Miller, whose collaboration with the British funk outfit Heliocentrics yielded a particularly fruitful and unorthodox union. Released by Strut Records, the combination paired the 72-year old... -
Album Review: Shabazz Palaces' 'Black Up'
Pop & HissTwo decades ago, Ishmael Butler flapped his wings as Butterfly, one-third of the seminal ’90s New York hip-hop trio Digable Planets. Claiming coolness as its birthright and Miles Davis and two Herbies (Hancock & Mann) as elemental building blocks,... -
The best CDs that fuse classical and jazz music
Culture MonsterIn Sunday's Arts & Books section, I explore the storied history of fusing two distinct music forms, jazz and classical. Walt Disney Concert Hall will be hosting two high-profile fusions: on Friday, pianist Brad Mehldau comes in with a jazz...... -
Coming to Ojai--jazz composer Maria Schneider
Culture MonsterJazz composer Maria Schneider lives in the kind of small New York City apartment that you can't imagine her ever leaving. It's old and warm and crammed with beloved books and things of a life imaginatively lived, notably, of course,...... -
Album review: Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian's “Live at Birdland”
Culture MonsterA quartet of jazz heavyweights embark on patient explorations of jazz standards in this live set....
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