Movies
One’s attention tends to wander while taking in “Wanderland,” a music-laced trifle concerning an uptight New Yorker’s surreal adventures in the hippie-dippy Hamptons that treads a shaky line between quirky and laborious.
April 19, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
For most of his musical life, pianist-composer Lalo Schifrin, who has played with Dizzy Gillespie and written soundtracks for such films as “Dirty Harry” and “The Beverly Hillbillies,” says he’s felt like a fish out of water.
Oct. 22, 1993
Music
Bandleader Gerald Wilson’s career as a composer-arranger began with a desire to be different.
July 2, 1993
JOHN HICKS “Friends Old and New” BMG * * * 1/2 This collection, recorded in January, finds pianist John Hicks in a decidedly mainstream mode, revealing almost none of his affection for McCoy Tyner--a principal inspiration--and sounding more like a bop-oriented craftsman than he ever has.
Sept. 20, 1992
Jazz: The current swing-music craze has returned ex-singing cowboy Herb Jeffries to fronting big bands.
Oct. 2, 1998
For the record
Feb. 3, 2010
Grover Sales, a jazz historian and author of “Jazz: America’s Classical Music”, died Feb. 14 of kidney failure at a hospital in Tiburon, Calif.
March 1, 2004
Back in the ‘50s when jazz was more of a presence in the musical mainstream than it is now, people looked for history-in-the-making at the festivals that George Wein organized every summer in Newport, R.I.
June 21, 1991
ACTING is what drives the selections for Method Fest, the indie film showcase starting its ninth year tonight in Woodland Hills and Calabasas and continuing through Wednesday.
March 29, 2007
Jazz review: Good-time tunes dominate the weekend event, but that doesn’t stop it from having moving musical moments.
Sept. 3, 1996