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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... -
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...... -
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... -
Listen: Jazz by way of South Korea
Culture MonsterRyu Bok-sung is a South Korean jazzman whose life has sung the blues. Recently featured in a documentary about South Koreaâs first-generation jazz musicians, the 72-year-old Ryu is experiencing a revival while he promotes his adopted music to... -
Cornell Dupree dies at 68; versatile guitarist
Cornell Dupree, a versatile guitarist whose long, productive career included performances and recordings with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Miles Davis and Lena Horne, died Sunday at his home in Fort Worth. Dupree, who had emphysema, was...Tags: Joe Cocker, John Lennon, Mariah Carey, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin
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Jazz album review: Kurt Elling's 'The Gate'
Culture MonsterChris Barton reviews Kurt Elling's new album 'The Gate,' an unpredictable collection of covers that includes King Crimson, Miles Davis and Earth Wind & Fire.... -
Album review: Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew Live'
Culture MonsterThe latest in a recent string of newly packaged music from jazzâs past, "Bitches Brew Live" combines only the second CD release of Miles Davis' 1970 performance at Isle of Wight (issued on DVD in 2004 and on recent complete...... -
Bacharach in its bones: Bruce Baker's home as Hollywood history
Brand XBruce Baker may have created the ultimate Los Angeles home â one cobbled together, with loving care, from recycled materials and discarded parts from celebrities' former homes, including Gregory Peck's roof, Miles Davis' cupboards and Burt Bacharach's... -
Critic's Notebook: Who really owns Gershwin?
"Who says that only Americans know how to play Gershwin?" asks Gramophone magazine this month as it hails a new Gershwin CD from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the German orchestra that calls itself the world's oldest. "By this time possibly nobody," the British...Tags: Fred Astaire, Vienna (Austria), Leonard Bernstein, Theater, Germany
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Mods & Rockers Film Festival 2010 salutes filmmaker Murray Lerner
Pop & HissIn addition to offering vintage performance footage of such classic artists as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Leonard Cohen, the Doors, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer and the Moody Blues, the 2010 Mods & Rockers Film Festival will...... -
Live review: Herbie Hancock's 'Seven Decades - The Birthday Celebration' at the Hollywood Bowl
Pop & HissThereâs a modification of an old joke that came to mind on Wednesday night. âWhat does a 70-year-old jazz legend get to play on his birthday at the Hollywood Bowl?â The answer for the great Herbie Hancock is, of course,...... -
Music review: Iranian avant-garde singer Sussan Deyhim smooths feathers on 9/11
Culture MonsterSussan Deyhim is one of Iran's most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvelously potent voice. She wails and coos and ululates, the sound of the soul in translation. When she sings low and......
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