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It really is tonight, in the text of our newsletter we had it wrong. 9pm-midnight Spazio14755 Ventura Blvd., Suite DSherman Oaks, CA 91403 Charles Owens – woodwindsBrian Swartz – trumpetPeter Smith – pianoLouis Spears – bassKenny Elliot – drums
A nice piece in the LA Times outlining the “alternative” jazz venues. Chris Barton has an overview of the handful of places where you can go to hear more adventurous music, most of the places I would think of, including Metropol, Open Gate, ResBox, MONA, even Vitello’s gets a nod as the new establishment of [...]
It looks like people aren’t going to rock shows as well. That WSJ piece on the Demise of Jazz just continues to look worse.
Titus Levi has had a pretty thoughtful ongoing facebook discussion in reaction to this piece in the WSJ about the impending Death Of Jazz. In the article the author, Terry Teachout, notes the evolution of the perception of jazz from a popular music of the people to a music of the dilettantes, on par with [...]
Here’s a very strong rebuttal by a very good critic to the WSJ piece I refer to in my earlier post. Money quote: One of the conclusions Teachout deducts from the study is that jazz is now considered a high art form, like classical music, non-musical plays, opera and ballet, and that jazz musicians act [...]
…in that they are getting older and smaller in numbers. Here’s a recent Wall Street Journal article illustrating recent results from the National Endowment for the Arts’ latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. WSJ writes: • In 2002, the year of the last survey, 10.8% of adult Americans attended at least one jazz [...]
The LAJC was part one of a three-part series at this beautiful museum. NY guitarist Mary Halvorson performs tonight, and Seattle-based pianist Wayne Horvitz and his band Sweeter Than The Day (with recent LA transplant Timothy Young on guitar) is up next Thursday. Curator (and bassist) Lisa Mezzacappa has been programming music for this series, [...]
Anthony Wilson, Joe Bagg and Nate Wood play for a full house at the Hammer Museum. (And yes, that really is Anthony.) Many thanks to the Hammer Museum for putting on such a great event. They have a beautiful open air courtyard within the walls of the museum, and it turns out that it’s a [...]