Entertainment & Arts
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” at the Ahmanson. Jazz great Wynton Marsalis at Segerstrom Hall. Alan Cumming with NPR’s Ari Shapiro at the Broad Stage.
Jan. 20, 2022
Nov. 21, 2019
The much-anticipated reopening of the Mark Taper Forum, ‘Lightscape’ at Disney Hall, a big debut in San Diego: Here’s our shortlist to the most promising shows in the season ahead.
Aug. 29, 2024
Movies
Actor-director Edward Norton called on jazz great Wynton Marsalis to work on “Motherless Brooklyn.” Then he brought in Thom Yorke and Daniel Pemberton to top it off.
Nov. 6, 2019
Every election year is about competing visions of America and what it means to be an American.
July 29, 2016
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti was 17 when she met American jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.
July 27, 2016
Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85.
April 1, 2020
It is a double bill of opposing reactions, one a homage, the other a rejection.
May 10, 2014
The ambitious bandleader’s new piece, ‘Swing Symphony,’ is a musical manifesto not only on the melding of jazz and classical but on the cultural crosscurrents that he feels are at the heart of America’s greatness.
Feb. 6, 2011
Awards
The intimate segments spiral off from conversational cues into a lifetime of memories: Simon’s and those of an American pop consciousness he’s helped to shape since 1957.
June 11, 2024