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Bela Fleck on taking holiday music to new places
Pop & HissMusicians who explore the fringes of music as we know it often seem to operate in a parallel dimension with few points of reference for the average music fan. This historically has been true in jazz, where such innovators as...... -
Don Van Vliet's tip for guitarists: "Listen to the birds. That's where all music comes from."
Pop & HissAmong the bits of advice that Don Van Vliet, in the guise of his musical alter ego, Captain Beefheart, listed in a 1996 musical primer called âCaptain Beefheartâs 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing,â is this, number 1: âListen to the...... -
Gary Lucas discusses Don Van Vliet's legacy in advance of Thursday's Captain Beefheart Symposium
Pop & HissLongtime Captain Beefheart guitarist-manager Gary Lucas will present a symposium on the life and legacy of the artist otherwise known as Don Van Vliet, who died Dec. 17, at the Echoplex at 8 p.m. Jan. 13. Special guests Kristine McKenna,...... -
Don Van Vliet dies at 69; avant-garde rock musician known as Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet, a maverick musician who emerged from the Southern California desert with the name Captain Beefheart and a singular and influential form of avant-garde rock in the 1960s, died Friday. He was 69.
Van Vliet, who retreated to a reclusive...Tags: Bo Diddley, Entertainment, Homes, PJ Harvey, Career and Workplace
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Live review: Charlie Haden Family & Friends at Disney Hall
Pop & HissJazz luminary Charlie Haden took no small amount of perverse joy Tuesday night in bringing the old-time country music with which he started his musical career in the Midwest seven decades ago into the tony surroundings of Walt Disney Concert...... -
Live review: HEALTH at the Echoplex
Pop & HissIn HEALTHâs new video for their single "USA Boys," a young couple throw a wild rumpus in a decrepit warehouse, drop a few hallucinogens, and collapse in a surprisingly forthright tangle of soft-core sex. Itâs also kind of a metaphor...... -
Punk hero Ian Drury biopic: 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll gives audiences 'reasons to be cheerful'
Brand XIn a biopic of a wild-eyed, libertine, punk-era wordsmith, some poetic licentiousness is to be expected. Rocker Ian Dury, the subject of âSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll,â has even said, âNever let the truth get in the way of a good story.â... -
This week's on-sales: UCLA Live, Yoko Ono, Elton John and more
Pop & HissA list of upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. UCLA Live John Cale, Sept. 30; Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Oct. 2; Laurie Anderson, Oct. 21; Taj Mahal, Oct. 22; Ornette Coleman, Nov. 3; Mavis...... -
George Russell dies at 86; composer influenced the evolution of jazz
George Russell, a composer, educator and theorist who had a powerful effect on the jazz forms and methods that have evolved from the 1950s to the present, has died. He was 86.
A MacArthur Foundation Award winner, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz...Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Tuberculosis, Health, Jon Hendricks
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L.A. Story
Rock stars, Jazzers, Pachucos...they may have grown up somewhere else quaint, like Sandusky, Ohio, or Canada, but they made their mark herelived, created and died here. Music is as much a part of the L.A. legacy as film and television. From the bebop...Tags: Joan Jett, Rose Bowl Game, Minority Groups, Will Rogers, Glenn Frey
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Album review: Amir ElSaffar's and Hafez Modirzadeh's 'Radif Suite'
Pop & HissAs far as the average listener's perception is concerned, Iraq and Iran may rank just below Greenland in terms of enjoying a rich jazz tradition. Yet this record's cross-cultural collaboration between Iraqi American trumpeter ElSaffar and Iranian American... -
Three of the many reasons why Hank Williams won a Pulitzer Prize
Pop & HissThough the Pulitzer Prizes in music are, for the most part, ridiculously out of touch with the art and craft of most music besides classical and jazz (weâd never begrudge Ornette Coleman his prize), the committee often makes up for......
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