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Dynamic Duos play it fast and loose at Jazz Showcase
The very loose, somewhat rough, thoroughly enjoyable show that unfolded at the Jazz Showcase on Thursday night did not follow the club's usual format. Instead of featuring a main attraction, the whimsically titled "Dynamic Duos" show featured two...
Tags: Entertainment, Thelonious Monk, Tunisia, Dave Brubeck, Music
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The beat goes on: Joe Byrd jazz concerts will continue in 2013
Good news for jazz aficionados and connoisseurs: Concert impresario Elana Byrd has announced that she will continue the Joe Byrd jazz concerts in 2013. Joe and Elana Byrd had chosen the full 2012 slate of artists before his death March 7 in an auto...
Tags: Entertainment, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Holidays, Concerts, Music
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Fred Hersch's glisteningly beautiful pianism
One hesitates to leap to too many conclusions based on the work that pianist Fred Hersch turned in on his newest recording, "Alive at the Vanguard," and his performance Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase. But in both instances, Hersch played with a...
Tags: Jerome Kern, Entertainment, Ornette Coleman, Concerts, Music
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Bandleader finds his vibe
Bob DeSena didn't grow up in a family where Latin jazz was a common presence on the stereo. Instead, it was an instrument that got him hooked to its sound. The bandleader, whose combo will perform this weekend in Huntington Beach, discovered his...
Tags: Latin Music (genre), Concerts, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Tito Puente
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Joe Byrd, bassist
Joe Byrd, a bassist who was best known for collaborations with his guitarist brother Charlie and who helped introduce bossa nova-inflected jazz to the United States, died March 6 at Anne Arundel Medical Center from injuries suffered in a car accident that...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, White House, Health, Sports, Music Industry
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Music review: Guitar-playing Assad Brothers at Cerritos Center
Culture MonsterRichard S. Ginell reviews the Brazilian guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.... -
The Sunday Conversation: Sergio Mendes
Grammy winner Sergio Mendes, 70, one of Brazil's most famous exports, kicks off his 50th anniversary in the music business with a new album, "Celebration," compiling a half-century of hits; his first film score, the animated film "Rio"; and a special...Tags: Carnegie Hall, Sports, Dancing, Music Industry, Jerry Moss
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Gene Lees dies at 82; jazz historian and critic
Gene Lees, a jazz historian and critic known for his pugnacious, highly personal essays and biographies of such jazz greats as Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman and Johnny Mercer, died Thursday at his home in Ojai. He was 82.
Lees had struggled for many years...Tags: Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Sports, Dancing, Arts and Culture
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Album Review: Diana Krall's 'Quiet Nights'
Diana Krall's albums should come with a warning label: Do not use while operating heavy machinery. This is not a knock: Krall's round, relaxed voice is a nuanced instrument ideally suited for, as this album's title indicates, quiet nights. With this...Tags: Entertainment, Heavy Engineering, Dancing, Sports, Dance
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The Lux Experience
Tribune staff reporterA weekend of riches in Luxembourg City LUXEMBOURG CITY OK, so it isn't Paris. This city -- one of two European Cultural Capitals for 2007 and capital of the richest per-capita-income country on the planet -- is pretty nice. Like all worthwhile...Tags: England, Disasters and Accidents, European Union, Germany, Treaties
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The Richard Walton Group
Sun StaffHometown: Ellicott City Current members: Eric Robertson, drums; Andrew Davidsen, lead electric guitar; Jacob Yoffee, saxophone; David Meer, electric, acoustic and bass guitars; Mitchell Shaivitz, percussion; Richard Walton, bass and acoustic guitars....Tags: Sonny Rollins, Ellicott City, Pat Metheny
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Falling for the many faces of Rio
Special to The TimesRio de Janeiro This is a city of coexisting extremes: Wealth and opulence adjoin poverty and squalor; courtesy counterbalances crime; sensuality shares space with spirituality. The topography pulls you abruptly from sea level to cloud level and beyond,...Tags: Anne Rice, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports, Los Angeles International Airport, Travel
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