A Calendar of Best Bets

Following is a chronological list of highlights for the summer.

THROUGH SUNDAY

You’ve only got three more days to visit the Ahmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center and see Matthew Bourne’s haunting dance-theater spectacle “Cinderella,” a retelling for adults of the classic fairy tale, set amid the air raids of World War II London.

THROUGH JUNE 13

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Linda Lavin headlines with Samantha Mathis in “Collected Stories,” Donald Margulies’ play about the complex, shifting relationship between an established writer and her protegee. Gilbert Cates directs. At the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood through June 13.

FRIDAY

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Venice Art Walk, a three-day event featuring a 350-piece silent art auction, self-guided tours of the private studios of more than 50 artists, two private concerts (classical and jazz), a gourmet food fair and more. The event benefits the Venice Family Clinic, the nation’s largest free clinic. (310) 392-9255.

SATURDAY

“The First Annual International Performing Arts Festival For Youth” will offer theater performances on four indoor and outdoor stages at USC, from “thirtysomething’s” Timothy Busfield in his Fantasy Theatre Company and noted actress Jude Narita, to avant-garde dance-theater duo Blue Palm, East West Players and many more. Ends Saturday.

A survey of 65 works tracing the career of Venice-based artist Peter Alexander, from his poured-resin cubes of the 1960s to his recent nightscapes of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, will be featured in the retrospective “Peter Alexander: In This Light,” at the Orange County Museum of Art through Sept. 12.

SUNDAY

Emmy Award-winning actress, author and social activist Ruby Dee appears in her autobiographical theater evening, “My One Good Nerve: A Visit With Ruby Dee,” staged by Charles Nelson Reilly, at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills. Ends July 4.

A 30-year retrospective devoted to Eleanor Antin, a pioneer of feminist and theatrically based “intermedia art,” will be on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through Aug. 23. The survey will include Antin’s early conceptual works, performance pieces and a new audio installation.

The noble Tuskegee Airmen (featuring Lee Archer), North American P-51s and 150 modern Ford Mustangs should make the Mustang Wings and Wheels Expo a flying success at the Museum of Flying.

MONDAY

One of the top stride pianists, Judy Carmichael at the Jazz Bakery plays swing and classic jazz standards by Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and other vintage jazz stars.

First-rate alternative country is on tap when Wilco makes its way to the House of Blues.

WEDNESDAY

The L.A. Opera presents “Lucia di Lammermoor” (Donizetti). Richard Bonynge conducts; Sumi Jo sings the title role, with tenor Frank Lopardo and baritone Gino Quilico; stage director is Jonathan Alver. Seven performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through June 13.

FRIDAY, MAY 28

The Wedge is set to make a splash when it opens at Raging Waters. The free-falling water slide will create a feeling of nearly zero-gravity, propelling inner tube riders back and forth, up and down. The degree of wetness and amount of fun should correlate.

Twenty years after hitting the top 40 with songs such as “Heart of Glass” and “One Way or Another,” the reunited Blondie appears at the Universal Amphitheatre.

“On the Jump,” John Glore’s comedy about a disillusioned newlywed who finds herself on a course of redemption after a thwarted suicide attempt, premieres at South Coast Repertory. Mark Rucker directs an eclectic cast, including Kellie Waymire, John Fleck and Julyana Soelistyo. Ends June 27.

SATURDAY, MAY 29

The three-day Old Pasadena Summer Fest offers more than 20 hours of music sponsored by Playboy at Pasadena’s Central Park. The free event includes sets by Grant Geissman, Mingus Amungus, Brian Bromberg, Bobby Rodriguez, Ronald Muldrow, the Phil Norman Tentet, Chris Ho, Everette Harp and many others. Through May 31.

SUNDAY, MAY 30

“Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution,” a traveling exhibition featuring more than 100 paintings, prints and drawings by the great Mexican muralist, will be mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through Aug. 16.

TUESDAY, JUNE 1

Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project brings challenging international rep to the California Center for the Arts in Escondido through June 3. The company also plays Royce Hall, on the UCLA campus in Westwood, June 23-27.

Two of jazz’s top baritone-saxophonists, Nick Brignola and Cecil Payne, team up for five nights of bebop at the Jazz Bakery.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2

The Ojai Festival’s eight events include appearances by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tomii Ensemble from Finland, soprano Dawn Upshaw and pianist Olli Mustonen. Magnus Lindberg is composer-in-residence. Through June 6.

“Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design,” a survey of movie and propaganda posters, magazines and journals, set designs, drawings and sculptures created by Russian avant-garde designers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, will be on view at the UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center through Aug. 22.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3

“The Magic Fire,” Lillian Garrett-Groag’s critically acclaimed drama, set against a background of Wagner and tango music, is about a girl and her family of European immigrants, exiled to Argentina, and then forced to flee from the fascist dictatorship of Juan Peron. Runs through July 3 at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre.

A Noise Within’s multi-award-winning cycle of Lillian Hellman’s dramas returns for a special repertory run, opening with “Another Part of the Forest”; “The Little Foxes” opens June 5. Both plays run at the theater’s Glendale venue through June 13.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5

Be ahead of the crowd. See Chris Rock’s new material before HBO puts his new special, “Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker,” into heavy cable rotation. Rock, who won Emmys for his 1996 HBO special “Bring in the Pain,” performs at the Universal Amphitheatre.

Trumpeter Mark Isham pays tribute to the early fusion sounds of Miles Davis with his “Silent Way Project” at the Viper Room.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

A free triple bill sponsored by Playboy at Santa Monica College features Latin jazz by the popular Poncho Sanchez, straight-ahead playing from Peter Erskine’s Lounge Art Ensemble and crossover sounds from the Braxton Brothers.

Some of India’s oldest classical music and dance forms will be showcased at length in Sexson Auditorium at Pasadena City College when Kathak dance-master Birju Maharaj joins revered sarod innovator Amjad Ali Khan and master percussionist Zakir Hussain.

MONDAY, JUNE 7

Musical Theatre Guild ends its Broadway in Concert Series with a musical staged reading of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, “Passion,” about a young soldier’s relationship with two women. At Pasadena Playhouse.

FRIDAY, JUNE 11

Latino comedy troupe Culture Clash celebrates its 15th anniversary with a special engagement of its exploration of real and imagined borders in “Culture Clash in Bordertown,” based on research in San Diego, and presented by the Mark Taper Forum’s Latino Theatre Initiative at Actors’ Gang in Hollywood. Ends July 11.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12

The 21st annual two-day Playboy Jazz Festival features, among many others: Grover Washington Jr., Jon Hendricks & Annie Ross, Dianne Reeves, Joshua Redman and Buddy Guy on Saturday, plus Ray Charles, Chick Corea, Gerald Wilson and Terence Blanchard on Sunday.

TUESDAY, JUNE 15

The Royal Swedish Ballet opens a weeklong engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center with the full-length “Swan Lake” (also June 16-19). But the big news comes on the afternoons of June 19 and 20 with a mixed bill drawn from the influential but rarely seen Ballets Suedois rep that thrilled Paris in the early 1920s and helped shape the course of Modernism.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16

Mickey Rooney stars in the title role and Jo Anne Worley is the Wicked Witch of the West in the Southern California premiere of Radio City Entertainment’s production of “The Wizard of Oz,” adapted from the 1939 MGM classic. At Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre through July 4 and at Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa on July 7-18.

FRIDAY, JUNE 18

The Petersen Automotive Museum presents “Surf’s Up! The Great American Woody,” an exhibition that pays homage to the iconic utility vehicle that paved the way for the modern SUV. , although, in its day, the Woody’s utility seemed much more apparent than that of its grandchild.A 1948 Mercury station wagon and a 1939 Pontiac station wagon on display illustrate the point.

SUNDAY, JUNE 20

Sir Peter Hall will direct repertory productions of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with a cast featuring Richard Thomas, David Dukes, Kelly McGillis, Brian Murray and Anna Gunn. At the Ahmanson Theatre. Ends Aug. 1.

Last year Bob Dylan toured with Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell. This year the ‘60s icon teams up with Paul Simon for a show at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim. Also at the Hollywood Bowl on June 22.

The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre has programmed three important chamber music ensembles, starting with the Rossetti String Quartet with pianist Armen Guzelimian, June 20 at 11 a.m.; The Miami String Quartet plays June 27 at 11 a.m., and I Palpiti Chamber Orchestra, Aug. 20 at 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 25

X’s local shows reuniting the band’s original lineup sizzled last year. The Los Angeles punk stalwarts will try to duplicate those performances at the House of Blues. Also June 26.

SUNDAY, JUNE 27

Al Pacino makes his first Los Angeles stage appearance, starring in and directing Eugene O’Neill’s short drama “Hughie,” about a 1928 New York City hustler talking to the hotel’s new night clerk, after coming off a bender triggered by the funeral of the previous clerk. At the Mark Taper Forum through July 25.

The Jazz Tap Ensemble launches a B-I-G Summer Tap Festival on June 27 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood, followed by an appearance on July 1 at a more intimate venue: the Jazz Bakery in Culver City. July 1-3 offers a daytime Kids on Tap Rhythm Fest at the Conjunctive Points Dance Center in Culver City--where tap master Cholly Atkins hosts a tap video lecture-demonstration on the evening of July 2 and the Jazz Tap Ensemble performs another program on the evening of July 3. Master classes, workshops, panel discussions and parties supplement the public performances.

THURSDAY, JULY 1

The American pianist Gustavo Romero plays the complete solo piano works of Chopin in six recitals at the Athenaeum in La Jolla on July 1, 11, 16 and 25, and Aug. 1 and 5 at 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 2

Shakespeare Festival/LA takes its al fresco summer production of “As You Like It,” downtown to Union Station through July 3, then to Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey July 8-18 and to South Coast Botanical Garden July 22-Aug. 1.

SUNDAY, JULY 4

“Saint Joan,” George Bernard Shaw’s remarkably contemporary look at the price of sainthood, will be performed outdoors under the stars at Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga’s rustic canyon amphitheater. Ends Sept. 19.

MONDAY, JULY 5

The children’s summer festival, “Open House at the Hollywood Bowl,” begins its 31st season, offering weekday music and dance performances and arts and crafts workshops to ages 3 to 9. Ends Aug. 13.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7

The very popular pianist-singer Diana Krall and her trio share the bill with the swinging Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra at the Hollwood Bowl.

The legendary Berliner Ensemble, founded by Bertolt Brecht in East Berlin in 1949 and now making its first appearances in the U.S., performs Brecht’s “Arturo Ui,” at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. It’s the company’s swan song in its present form; it will reconfigure under new leadership and produce works by other playwrights after this performance. Ends July 11.

“Merton of the Movies,” the classic George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly comedy about a small-town boy who finds mishaps and mischief while pursuing his Hollywood dreams in the silent-movie era, opens at the Geffen Theatre. Ends Aug. 1.

THURSDAY, JULY 8

The early ‘80s lineup that made the Go-Go’s famous reunites for a hometown show at the Greek Theatre.

FRIDAY, JULY 9

John Mauceri conducts the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in “100 Years of Broadway,” with soloists Susan Egan, Marilyn Horne, Justino Diaz and Davis Gaines, vocal soloists. 8:30 p.m. Also, July 10.

SATURDAY, JULY 10

Despite her refusal to sign on with a major record label, Ani DiFranco finds herself headlining the spacious Universal Amphitheatre.

Winifred R. Harris’ Between Lines company makes its debut at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood with its full-evening celebration of the feminine experience, “One Race Woman,” set to music by Nina Simone and Sweet Honey in the Rock.

“Thunder Knocking on the Door,” written and directed by Keith Glover, with music and lyrics by Keb’ Mo’, is a steamy blues showdown between a trickster/shape-shifter and the twin children of the only musician who ever “out-licked” him on the Delta blues guitar. Runs through Aug. 14 at San Diego’s Old Globe in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

The Music Academy of the West Orchestra, led by guest conductor Hans Vonk, plays Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and works by Copland and Ives at the Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara. 8 p.m.

The influence of Gran Chichimecan culture throughout the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico is examined in “Ancient Trails: Connecting the Gran Chichimecan Cultures,” at the Southwest Museum through March 16. The exhibition focuses on the pottery and architecture of Casas Grandes, Hohokam, Mogollon and Anasazi cultures from 1100 to 1400 A.D.

SUNDAY, JULY 11

One man’s influence on American art will be explored in the exhibition “In Memory of My Feelings--Frank O’Hara and American Art,” through Nov. 14 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The poet and critic wrote many poems inspired by works of art and artists responded in kind, demonstrated in works here by Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers.

Theatricum Botanicum’s annual summer season of “Kids Koncerts” opens with comic singer Dan Crow. Other children’s faves performing in the weekly series are Melora Marshall, Peter Alsop, the Banana Slug String Band, Parachute Express, Barney Saltzberg, Dave Kinnoin and Diane Ferlatte. In Topanga through Aug. 29.

FRIDAY, JULY 16

The annual Dance Kaleidoscope series showcases local achievement with two different programs in the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A. on July 16-17. Another mixed bill surfaces on July 22 in the Watercourt at California Plaza in downtown L.A., followed by a fourth slate of companies at the Japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo on July 23. The windup comes on July 24, with morning and evening Kaleido-events at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.

SUNDAY, JULY 18

“Play On!,” the musical based on “Twelfth Night” and set in ‘40s Harlem, opens at the Pasadena Playhouse after earlier productions in San Diego, Broadway, Chicago and Seattle. Conceived by the playhouse’s artistic director, Sheldon Epps, and written by Cheryl L. West, it features the songs of Duke Ellington. Ends Aug. 22.

Craig ‘n Co. presents “Sunday Funday ‘99,” a family concert series that launches with a BBQ and the Craig ‘n Co. band in a rock ‘n roll journey through Jewish culture. Noted musical group Trout Fishing in America performs Aug. 1; the upbeat Sugar Beats conclude the series on Aug. 15. At University of Judaism.

TUESDAY, JULY 20

The similarities and differences between two famous portraitists are explored in “Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York” at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The exhibition focuses on the artists and their bohemian surroundings with images by each, including portraits of George Sand and Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar and of Truman Capote and Grace Jones by Warhol. Through Oct. 10.

Petula Clark headlines in a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. At Orange County Performing Arts Center through July 25; returns, beginning Oct. 5, at the Pantages Theatre.

Make*A*Circus, San Francisco’s popular theatrical circus company, celebrates its 25th season with its new one-ring comedy, “When Zucchinis Fly,” plus post-show circus skills workshops a new performance with the audience, and a jazz band. At Lafayette Recreation Center in L.A. Also at Playa del Norte in Lake Mission Viejo (July 21); Lennox Boys & Girls Club in L.A. (July 23); Wilson Park in Torrance (July 25).

SATURDAY, JULY 24

The groundbreaking UCLA “APEX” program brings music and dance from Burma, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Korea to the Watercourt at California Plaza in downtown L.A.--with an emphasis on cross-cultural collaboration.

Whimsical life-sized wood sculptures by Northern California artist Barbara Spring will be featured in a retrospective of her work at the Laguna Art Museum through Oct. 10.

SUNDAY, JULY 25

“Jane Eyre,” a new musical by Tony Award-winning director John Caird (“Les Miserables” and “Nicholas Nickelby”), based on Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel, has its American premiere. At the La Jolla Playhouse through Aug. 29.

“Spaces of Nature,” an installation exhibition organized by the Armory Center for the Arts and the Richmond Art Center, features works by Bay Aea artists Tony Bellaver, Mark Brest Van Kempen, Alex B. Champion, Pauletta Chanco, Sue Mark, Daniel McCormick, Keiko Nelson, Laurie Polster and Angelika Hofmann. Through Sept. 12 at the Armory Center for the Arts.

TUESDAY, JULY 27

Prints, drawings and paintings which shaped the enormous success of 18th- and 19th century British stage actress Sarah Siddons will be featured in “Cultivating Celebrity: Portraiture as Publicity in the Career of Sarah Siddons, Star of the Georgian Stage,” through Sept. 19 at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

Ten more portraits of Siddons will be displayed in “A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and her Portraitists,” at the J. Paul Getty Museum in conjunction with the Huntington’s “Cultivating Celebrity” Two versions of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ famous painting “Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse” will be displayed along with paintings by Gilbert Stuart, Sir Thomas Lawrence and George Romney. Through Sept. 26.

THURSDAY, JULY 29

The performing historians of American Repertory Dance Company celebrate 20th century Modernism with reconstructions of works by Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Doris Humphrey, Agnes de Mille, Lester Horton, Bella Lewitzky, Joyce Trisler and Donald McKayle in the Watercourt. Also July 30.

SATURDAY, JULY 31

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre presents its hourlong adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” as part of “Summer Nights at the Ford’s” matinee family series. At the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre through Aug. 15.

Russian pianist Nicolai Petrov plays a recital at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School opening the weeklong International Chopin Symposium to be held Aug. 1-8 at Pepperdine University, Malibu.

Teen Queen Britney Spears checks into the Universal Amphitheatre to perform songs from her white-hot debut album “ . . . Baby One More Time.”

MONDAY, AUG. 9

Drummer Bill Berry is no longer a member of R.E.M. But the Athens, Ga., band still includes original members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills. The alternative-rock godfathers perform two shows at the Greek Theatre, Aug. 9-10, before moving over to Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on Aug. 11.

TUESDAY, AUG. 10

The Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev, conductor, in three programs at the Hollywood Bowl. Also Aug. 12. The event culminates with a Russian Spectacular with fireworks, Aug. 13-14, when pianist Nicolai Lugansky plays the First Piano Concerto.

THURSDAY, AUG. 12

“The First Picture Show,” a celebration of filmdom’s early pioneers, tells the story of one of the last silent movie directors and her documentary filmmaker niece. It premieres at the Mark Taper Forum. Ends Sept. 19.

FRIDAY, AUG. 13

The joint will be jumpin’ when the Brian Setzer Orchestra brings its rockabilly-swing to the Greek Theatre. Also Aug. 14.

Pianist-composer Lalo Schifrin, with both a jazz combo and a 22-piece orchestra, performs selections from his movie and television scores at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, complete with selected film clips.

SATURDAY, AUG. 14

Lucinda Carver conducts her L.A. Mozart Orchestra in an unstaged performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. 8 p.m.

SUNDAY, AUG. 15

Featuring a roster of artists that reads like a “Who’s Who” of Impressionism, “Around Impressionism: French Paintings From the National Gallery of Art” opens at LACMA West. Heavyweights Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edouard Vuillard are all represented here through Nov. 29.

TUESDAY, AUG. 17

The national tour of the new Broadway musical “Footloose,” based on the hit 1984 film about a free-spirited teen who changes an uptight town, comes to the Orange County Performing Arts Center through Aug. 22. Also at the Pantages Theatre, Aug. 24 to Sept. 5.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Andrew Robinson conducts, a program of operatic music featuring American soprano Alessandra Marc and Mexican tenor Fernando de la Mora at the Hollywood Bowl. 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18

For a show subtitled “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” the Hollywood Bowl hosts the innovative gospel a cappella sextet Take 6, Kevin Mahogany and Dee Daniels and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.

The new director of the Pasadena Pops, Rachel Worby, makes her debut with that orchestra at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge. Soloist is vocalist Amick Byram. 8 p.m.

THURSDAY, AUG. 19

Hear the young girls scream when teen idols ‘N Sync perform at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. Also at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion on Aug. 20.

SUNDAY, AUG. 22

The Jazz Bakery’s Ruth Price hosts a night of top jazz vocalists, including Janis Siegel of the Manhattan Transfer, the first joint appearance by Mark Murphy & Kurt Elling, and a surprise singer at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.

TUESDAY, AUG. 24

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Alexander Toradze, stage director Peter Sellars, video creator Bill Viola and the Los Angeles Master Chorale appear with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program including Scriabin’s “Prometheus: Poem of Fire” and Varese’s “Deserts.” 8:30 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 25

The three individual but complementary guitarists John Pizzarelli, Russell Malone and Mark Whitfield are showcased playing straight-ahead jazz at the Hollywood Bowl, with the assistance of the hard-swinging Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.

SATURDAY, AUG. 28

Massed percussive footwork a la “Riverdance” spiced with traditional Latino rhythms make “Zapateados y Taconeos: The Full Story” a high-profile vehicle for Gema Sandoval’s ever-ambitious Danza Floricanto/U.S.A. at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.

TUESDAY, AUG. 31

John Michael Montgomery delivers the chart-savvy country-pop while opening act Junior Brown sets the stage afire with his old-fashioned honky-tonk music and blazing “guit-steel” guitar work. It all happens at the Greek Theatre.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 2

“Miss Saigon,” national tour arrives at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 3

The LAX Marriott Hotel for four straight days on up to nine stages--hosts the Sweet & Hot Jazz Festival. Featured will be singer Banu Gibson, loads of Dixieland groups, mainstream all-stars and big bands.

JAZZ

Monday: Judy Carmichael, Jazz Bakery.

Tuesday-May 27: Branford Marsalis Quartet, Catalina’s.

Tuesday-May 28: Jacky Terrason, Jazz Bakery.

May 29-31: Playboy Jazz at the Old Pasadena Summer Fest, Pasadena’s Central Park.

June 1-5: Nick Brignola & Cecil Payne, Jazz Bakery.

June 1-6: Eartha Kitt, Catalina’s.

June 3: Roberto Miranda, Geffen Contemporary.

June 4: Michael Session Sextet, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

June 5: Mark Isham’s “Silent Way Project”, Viper Room.

June 6: Poncho Sanchez, Peter Erskine’s Lounge Art Ensemble, Braxton Brothers, Santa Monica College.

June 8: UCLA Jazz Ensembles, Schoenberg Hall.

June 10-13: Jim Hall-Scott Colley Duo, Jazz Bakery.

June 10: Eldad Tarmu, Geffen Contemporary.

June 11: Lanny Morgan Quartet, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

June 12-13: Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl.

June 17: George Coleman, Geffen Contemporary.

June 18: Billy Mintz Quartet, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

June 22-27: Art Farmer Quartet, Jazz Bakery.

* Dave Weckl, Catalina’s.

June 24: Ernie Anderson and Barbara Morrison, Geffen Contemporary.

June 25: Dave Mackay’s Interplay, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

June 29-30: Javon Jackson, Jazz Bakery.

July 1-3: Monty Alexander, Jazz Bakery.

July 7: Diana Krall Trio, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl.

July 8: Nedra Wheeler, Geffen Contemporary.

July 21: Poncho Sanchez, Tolu, Andy Vargas, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl.

July 22: Sandra Booker, Geffen Contemporary.

July 23: The Rippingtons, Universal Amphitheatre.

July 23: Cubanismo, California Plaza.

July 27-Aug. 1: Kenny Garrett Quartet, Catalina’s.

July 29: Alan Broadbent, Geffen Contemporary.

Aug. 4: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Brown, Regina Carter, Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl.

Aug. 5: Gerald Wiggins, MOCA.

Aug. 6: Cecilia Coleman Quintet, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

Aug. 7: Jazz Antiqua Dance & Music’s To Duke With Love, John Anson Ford Theatre.

Aug. 7: Al Jarreau, Dave Koz, Chris Botti, Greek Theatre.

Aug. 10-15: Sphere, Catalina’s.

Aug. 11: Dr. John, Byron Stripling, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl.

Aug. 12: Chris Anderson and Billy Higgins, MOCA.

Aug. 13: Lalo Schifrin’s Jazz Goes to the Movies, John Anson Ford Theatre.

Aug. 13-14: Brian Setzer’s Orchestra, Greek Theatre.

Aug. 14: Tribute to Horace Tapscott, California Plaza.

Aug. 17-22: The Zawinul Syndicate, Catalina’s.

Aug. 18: Take 6, Kevin Mahogany, Dee Daniels, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl.

Aug. 20: Don Preston Trio, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

Aug. 21: Tolu, California Plaza.

Aug. 22: The Jazz Bakery’s Summer Cookin’ with Mark Murphy, Kurt Elling & Janis Siegel, John Anson Ford Theatre.

Aug. 24-29: Pharoah Sanders, Catalina’s.

Aug. 25: John Pizzarelli, Russell Malone, Mark Whitfield, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl.

Aug. 27: Sandra Booker, L.A. County Museum Of Art.

Sept. 3-6: The Sweet & Hot Jazz Festival, LAX Marriott.

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