Music
Some of the brightest moments for jazz fans during the Michelob Street Scene this Friday and Saturday nights are bound to come during sets by the eight-piece Rebirth Brass Band.
Sept. 6, 1990
Playboy Jazz Festival: A review of the Playboy Jazz Festival in Monday’s Calendar misidentified the New Birth Brass Band as the Rebirth Brass Band.
June 17, 2009
Television
Music brings authenticity to HBO’s ‘Treme’
May 1, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
The hot sounds of cool New Orleans will invade the South Bay tonight when the Norris Theatre marks Mardi Gras early with “Mardi Gras Galore,” a two-hour celebration beginning at 8.
Feb. 7, 1993
There’s no shortage of music closely associated with the Independence Day holiday and the American spirit.
July 4, 2018
Culture Monster Blog
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Feb. 10, 2011
Bill Barber, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists, died of congestive heart failure June 18 at his home in Bronxville, N.Y.
July 2, 2007
When baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan steps onto the stage of the John Anson Ford Theatre on Saturday evening to play such tunes as “Move” and “Godchild” with a 11-piece band, he’ll be revisiting some old but very friendly musical territory.
June 19, 1992
It may still be a touch gloomy outside, but that shouldn’t deter anyone from this summer’s round of Twilight Concert Series events at the Santa Monica Pier.
May 19, 2015
Greenspace
May 10, 2010