It was the classic case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being weak as trumpeter Donald Byrd took to the stage at Marla's Memory Lane on Friday night.
With Charlie Parker's birthday imminent (he would have been 66 Thursday), this seemed like a fitting time to drop in on Supersax.
Bud Shank has always been a first-class musician--but it wasn't always on his own terms.
At 27, Daniel Baudendistel is one of the youngest dancers to portray the character role of Drosselmeyer in the American Ballet Theatre version of "The Nutcracker."
The National Academy of Jazz, still confined to local events due to a shortage of funding, lent its
No one can ever accuse Quartet Music of lacking creative determination.
created a small industry in the recording world, have fallen out of the bright jazz spotlight they once dominated.
Charles McPherson, who once toured in a show called "The Musical Life of Charlie Parker," brought his alto sax and his Bird-like credentials to Catalina's on Friday, backed by the Alan Broadbent Trio.
Marla Gibbs is usually content to play the role of entrepreneur at her Marla's Memory Lane supper club.
In one of the jazz festival's less conventional ventures, George Shearing plunged through a time
Sunday evening at the Wadsworth Theater, the New American Orchestra, with Jack Elliott conducting, offered a program of four pieces, two of which were premiere performances.
Does anyone remember natural sound?
Susannah McCorkle is infatuated with words.
Monday through Saturday the thin strip of grass in front of the San Remo Italian Market in Tustin looks like nothing more than a planter for a pair of spreading sycamore trees.
Monday evening at the Wiltern Theater, a large and appreciative audience was reminded of an important historical point.
"Don't forget they only make pop records out of plastic," the chap who calls himself the Jazz Butcher sang Thursday at the Roxy.
The valve trombone has produced barely a handful of specialists, of whom Rob McConnell and Bob Brookmeyer are the only living representatives of major significance.
Sunday's Pacific Coast Jazz Festival in Irvine shapes up as one of the biggest single-day jazz
The tally will come in later, but I have to believe that the second annual Classic Jazz Festival
George Duvivier, a leading jazz bassist, died of cancer last week at his New York City home.