Bowl’s Jazz and Pop Lineup Serves Up Usual Smorgasbord : For its 74th season, the venue will be renovated but some programming will have a familiar flavor.

With newly refurbished, renovated and remodeled facilities, the Hollywood Bowl will have somewhat of a new look and feel for its upcoming 74th annual summer season. But the pop and jazz programming, for better or worse, retains a familiar flavor.

Big-voiced Engelbert Humperdinck, working on a comeback, will unchain the melody with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra under John Mauceri on June 21. June and July will see two diva alerts. Dionne Warwick, singing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, arrives for a trek through the Bacharach/David catalogue, July 21-23. Natalie Cole counters with an examination of jazz, pop and R&B; Aug. 25 and 26.

The venerable Peter, Paul & Mary kick off the patriotic days of summer July 1, singing “This Land Is Your Land,” among other faves, with the Bowl orchestra.

Jazz, always a popular Bowl item--so long as it remains close to the mainstream--makes its initial appearance at the 17th annual Playboy Jazz Festival June 17 and 18. Among the headliners: Al Jarreau, Benny Carter, Horace Silver, Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd, Grover Washington Jr., Herbie Hancock, Gerald Wilson and Geri Allen.

The most unique jazz event is titled “McFerrin, Corea and the Phil,” July 29. Singer, now conductor, Bobby McFerrin conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony (No. 4) and accompanies pianist Chick Corea in a reading of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (K. 466), followed by a “jam session.”

The season’s three purely instrumental jazz programs cover a gamut of styles.

On Sept. 13, Lionel Hampton, who is now recovering from a mild stroke, and the “Golden Men of Jazz,” including Milt Hinton, Harry (Sweets) Edison, Junior Mance, etc., will cruise the mainstream in a concert that also features violinist Stephane Grappelli and the Ray Brown Trio (with a promised three-bass number with Brown and guests John Clayton and Christian McBride).

Wynton Marsalis and Joshua Redman--perhaps the two most visible jazz players in the country--will be backed by the world-class rhythm section of up-and-coming pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Lewis Nash on Aug. 16.

And jazz of the New Adult Contemporary variety will highlight the “Lee & Larry Tour” at the 11th annual JVC Jazz at the Bowl, Aug. 20, with guitarists Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton, keyboardists David Benoit and George Duke and others.

Other jazz events are mostly associated with veteran performers.

A salute to vocalist Joe Williams on July 26 showcases the honoree with the Count Basie Orchestra and singers Nancy Wilson, Jon Hendricks, Dianne Reeves and Bill Henderson. A similar tribute on Aug. 23 honoring Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim (who died last December) includes the Bowl debut of bossa nova great Joao Gilberto, with Brazilian star Gal Costa and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.

On Aug. 2, Peggy Lee makes a rare concert appearance in tandem with Mel Torme and George Shearing. And on Aug. 4 and 5, “The Great American Concert” spotlights Rosemary Clooney, a consistent Bowl favorite, in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of her debut as well as the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, with a salute to the USO’s Hollywood Canteen.

Several beyond-category programs feature John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in: “Salute to Rodgers & Hammerstein,” July 14 and 15, with John Raitt also celebrating a 50th anniversary (of his Broadway debut); “Music Tells a Tale,” Aug. 18 and 19, a journey through music from “Bambi,” “Pinocchio,” “The Wizard of Oz” and “Edward Scissorhands”; “Centennial Celebration of the Moving Picture,” Aug. 27, with scenes from classic motion pictures accompanied by live music, and Garrison Keillor’s readings (with Philip Brunelle conducting) of “The Young Lutheran’s Guide to the Orchestra,” “The Story of Dwayne and Carmen Bizet” and a set of new Lake Wobegon tales, Sept. 10.

The pop music program (produced by Andrew Hewitt and Bill Silva Presents) offers only a slight bow toward rock with the appearance of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Taj Mahal on June 9 (already sold out) and 10.

More typically, the pop agenda is heavily weighted with ballad-oriented crossover acts. R&B; romanticist Luther Vandross opens the season on June 3. And singer Amy Grant--continuing her crossover from the Christian music genre--performs with special guest Steven Curtis Chapman for the first time on June 22.

The Bowl’s pop music closes Sept. 30 with the infectious rhythms of the second annual Salsa & Latin Jazz Festival. Featured artists include Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente and Arturo Sandoval.

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