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Buddy Collette dies at 89; L.A. jazz saxophone player, bandleader
Buddy Collette, a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator who played important roles in Los Angeles jazz as a musician and an advocate for the rights of African American musicians, has died. He was 89.
Collette died Sunday at...Tags: Nelson Riddle, Chico Hamilton, Academy Awards, Los Angeles, Ella Fitzgerald
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Celebrating a 50th anniversary with Watts Towers
Brand XIf Simon Rodia constructed his Watts Towers from 1921 to 1954, what is this weekend's 50th anniversary about, exactly? It's celebrating the rescue of the towers, when a young aeronautical engineer designed a powerful, complicated stress test for the... -
Celebration will mark 50 years since Watts Towers won a tug of war for survival
Culture MonsterWith apologies to the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," here???s some theme music for Saturday???s half-centenary celebration at the Watts Towers of a remarkable moment in L.A. lore: the 1959 rescue of Simon Rodia???s triple-spired folk... -
Live review: A night of big band at the Hollywood Bowl [UPDATED]
Pop & Hiss“Big bands are definitely not coming back,” George Carlin once declared in a bit from the ’80s, where he posed as Jesus Christ sitting down for an interview. While their golden age certainly has passed, what was as true then...... -
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TTE--TTE: GREG KURSTIN
Think of him as a Swiss Army knife of the music industry. This Los Angelesbased multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer has worked with artists as diverse as Ben Harper, Janes Addiction, Kylie Minogue and Pink. His most...Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Science and Technology, Gwen Stefani, Los Angeles, Indie (genre)
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L.A. City Council keeps art, cultural programs afloat
L.A. NOWWith some Los Angeles art centers on the verge of shutting their doors, the City Council agreed Friday to shift money earmarked for public art projects to keep classes and other cultural programs running over the next two years. City...... -
Paris' Quai Branly Museum celebrates 'Jazz Century'
Bump Picasso.
Forget Rococo.
The Quai Branly Museum, a steel-and-glass palace on the Seine River, has news for the culture world: "Three Little Bops" is art.
The Looney Tunes cartoon from 1957 retells the Three Little Pigs as a jazz fable with music by...Tags: Arts, Ella Fitzgerald, African Americans, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie
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Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy
Times Staff WriterAIMING to match the jackpot it scored in 2005 with "Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall," Blue Note falls a bit short. Though this two-CD set, recorded at Cornell University, captures the swordplay of a fierce Mingus crew, there...Tags: Cornell University, Education, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Carnegie Hall
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Watts Towers tours restricted due to repairs
![Beginning Monday, public tours at the <a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/Default.asp?page_id=613">Watts Towers </a> will be restricted until next February to enable crews to repair damage the center tower sustained during the storms of 2004-05.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/38861430-14144225.jpg "Beginning Monday, public tours at the <a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/Default.asp?page_id=613\">Watts Towers </a> will be restricted until next February to enable crews to repair damage the center tower sustained during the storms of 2004-05.")
Beginning Monday, public tours at the Watts Towers will be restricted until next February to enable crews to repair damage the center tower sustained during the storms of 2004-05.
The Department of Cultural Affairs had applied for federal FEMA funds...Tags: FEMA
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Wax Poetics unearths a book line
DIGGERS -- part of a larger tribe peopled by DJs, turntablists, music completists and stripped-down-to-essence-of-it-all fans -- have long had their own rituals, codes and ethos. And although the end of the '90s meant the death knell for record stores and...Tags: Disc Jockeys, Periodicals, Mass Media, Arts and Culture, Music Industry
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Medeski, Martin and Wood still going their own way
After 17 years, nine studio albums and countless tours, Medeski, Martin and Wood are, in a sense, a band without a country. And they couldn't be happier.
Dedicated to what keyboardist John Medeski calls "the spirit of jazz" through a fierce devotion to...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, John Scofield, Phish (music group), Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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John Outterbridge's artistic shovel returned
Times Staff WriterThe artwork-on-a-shovel that left town eight months ago with Margie J. Reese, Los Angeles' former arts chief, is back in the city-run Watts Towers Arts Center after a detour to Reese's home in Irving, Texas. Last July, an apparently unknowing Mayor...Tags: Watts, Los Angeles, Arts, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Antonio Villaraigosa
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