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Album Recommendation: SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED: THE NYC SESSIONS – VOLUME ONE
PLUGGING INTO SONDHEIM Every song in this collection is fabulous, from the standards to the more obscure songs from the Sondheim cannon. Any collection like this will be a mixed bag. Sure there are some great interpretations, but there are others which don’t always do justice to the originals. Still, the voices are outsyanding: Blaine…
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Film Screening: THE COWBOYS (50th Anniversary at John Wayne: An American Experience in Fort Worth, TX)
When The Cowboys premiered in 1972, it was one of the biggest hits of the year. It is best remembered for launching the careers of several young actors, as well as being one of only a small handful of movies in which John Wayne’s character dies. The 50th anniversary celebration of The Cowboys will feature three days of events, including…
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Free Events: SUNSET CONCERTS (Skirball Cultural Center)
SUNSET CONCERTS Thursday evenings, July 21–August 25, 2022, at 8:00 pm From beloved Sunset Concerts alumni to up-and-coming international performers, this season offers artistry and storytelling that harnesses music’s unique power to bring communities together, forge cultural bonds, and move hearts and minds. Visit Skirball for more info. Visitors are encouraged to arrive early to…
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Film: NO LONGER SUITABLE FOR USE (Tribeca Film Festival)
Sam Rockwell and Mark Berger’s Play Hooky Productions presents writer and director Julian Joslin’s riveting new live action short, No Longer Suitable for Use. with a World Premiere next month at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Joslin’s screenplay draws from his firsthand experiences working on terrorism cases in NYC Samir (Ramy’s Laith Nakli), a Syrian-Egyptian immigrant, has…
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Album Review and Recommendation: CAROL SLOANE: LIVE AT BIRDLAND (Club 44 Records)
SLOANE AND EASY [Editor’s Note: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Carole Sloane on January 23, 2023, at the age of 85. An Announcement is reprinted below.] In 1963 Carol Sloane said, “I want to be one of these persons who have been around a long time.” Check. Did you…
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THE ROLLING STONES: LICKED LIVE IN NEW YORK (2 CD and Blu-ray, Remixed/Remastered, Explicit)
LICKED LIVE To celebrate their 40th anniversary, The Rolling Stones embarked on a worldwide tour in 2002 and 2003 that would cover 117 shows in a variety of theatres, arenas and stadiums. This show captures their January 2003 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City and features a guest appearance from Sheryl Crow on “Honky…
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Album Recommendation: JOHN WILLIAMS VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 (Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin)
John Williams and Anne-Sophie MutterReunite for World Premiere Recordingof the Composer’s Violin Concerto No. 2– Written Especially for Mutter Alongside Three Film Themes in SpecialNew Arrangements by Williams Out Today, June 3, 2022 on Deutsche Grammophon “Marion’s Theme” from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost ArkMusic Video Out Today, June 4 Watch the Music Video…
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Album Recommendation: THIS ONE’S FOR JOEY (Keith Oxman)
When acclaimed tenor saxophonist and educator Keith Oxman learned that one of his former students, bassist Joey Pearlman, had passed away in February 2021 at the age of 24, Oxman decided to create a recording paying tribute to the brilliant young man who’d already earned a place on the New York scene. This One’s for…
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Album Recommendation: AMY WINEHOUSE: LIVE AT GLASTONBURY 2007 (Coming to vinyl on June 3, 2022)
Here comes the release of Live at Glastonbury 2007 – the iconic performance of Amy Winehouse’s Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury 2007, coming to vinyl for the very first time on Friday, June 3, 2022. Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis commented, “Amy Winehouse was a Glastonbury-goer through and through. She either came and played or, when she wasn’t working,…
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Music Preview: WILD UP (Los Angeles New Music)
WILD UP’S NEW HOME-BASED SERIES, LOS ANGELES NEW MUSIC, PLAYS MAY 15 – JULY 10, 2022 “For a decade, we’ve been exporting LA culture. Now, we’re beginning a home series here in LA.” – Christopher Rountree, Artistic Director of Wild Up Wild Up, LA’s ruling new music collective, greets the season of renewal with Los Angeles New…
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Album Review: BIG CRAZY LOVE (Courtney Freed)
FALL IN BIG CRAZY LOVE WITH COURTNEY FREED Ah, let the worries of the world simply melt away as chanteuse Courtney Freed takes you on a journey with her breezy new album Big Crazy Love. With a very wide and break-free range, and lightly tittering vibrato, Freed offers her own accessible tunes (“When We Were…
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Album Recommendation: A CHORUS LINE (Original Spanish Cast Recording with Antonio Banderas)
¡HOLA, A CHORUS LINE! The cast album of Antonio Banderas’s acclaimed Spanish production of A Chorus Line, the first-ever Spanish language recording of the iconic musical, is now available on CD in Spain and on streaming and digital platforms worldwide. And it’s a blast. I have been collecting foreign language cast albums for decades and this is among…
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Jazz Album Recommendation: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: NEW ORLEANS (Soundtrack out April 29, 2022 on Petaluma Records)
The new film Take Me To The River: New Orleans follows director Martin Shore’s 2014 award-winning film Take Me To The River, which documented the musical influence of Memphis. “Memphis told the American music story. New Orleans is a story of how World music was created,” says Shore on his decision to document New Orleans. The…
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Jazz Album Recommendation: GUITAR AND ME (Aleksi Glick)
EXQUISITE Warm, breezy, intricate, intimate, deft, and all together lovely, Guitar and Me, out this week, is the debut solo release from New York-based guitarist Aleksi Glick. The album plays as a genealogy of the guitar, weaving through various musical styles that have been crucial to the guitar’s evolution as well as influential to Glick’s…
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Album Recommendation: SHERYL: MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (UMe/Big Machine Records)
SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT On March 11, a full-length documentary film directed by Amy Scott, entitled Sheryl about the singer-songwriter’s life and career, will premiere at SXSW, ahead of a spring premiere on SHOWTIME. An intimate story of song and sacrifice, Sheryl navigates an iconic yet arduous musical career while the artist battles sexism, ageism, depression, cancer, and…
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Recommended Concert: MUSE/IQUE & RACHAEL WORBY: SUNRISE ON SUNSET (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
Rediscover Los Angeles through a fabulous night of music and history… THIS WEEKEND ONLY! Saturday, March 12, 7:30 pm, and Sunday, 13, 2022, 3 pm and 7 pm. MORE INFO & TICKETS The program, MUSE/IQUE & RACHAEL WORBY: SUNRISE ON SUNSET, features an ensemble of L.A.’s finest instrumentalists and singers in a night of fabulous music…
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Album Release: GHOST SONG (Cécile McLorin Salvant)
THE GREATEST JAZZ SINGER OF OUR AGE IS BACK ON A NEW LABEL, Nonesuch Records releases Ghost Song, the label debut of singer/songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant today. Ghost Song features a diverse mix of seven originals and five interpretations on the themes of ghosts, nostalgia, and yearning. Salvant says, “It’s unlike anything I’ve done before…
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Film Preview: SEVEN DAYS (directed by Roshan Sethi)
New Trailer! 7 DAYS The Charming Rom-Com from Filmmaker and MD Roshan Sethi (Co-Creator of The Resident) starring GERALDINE VISWANATHAN (Bad Education) and KARAN SONI (Deadpool)Co-Written By Roshan Sethi and Karan Soni, Executive Produced by The Duplass BrothersIN THEATERS MARCH 25 2021 | 86m | United States | Unrated Synopsis: Set up on a pre-arranged date by their old-fashioned…
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Music: BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS (2022 Lineup)
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 2022 Programming Bethel Woods Center for the Arts’”a non-profit performance venue, museum and site of the 1969 Woodstock festival’”has shared a preview of its 2022 lineup of concerts, exhibits and educational programming. Additional programming will be announced throughout the year. A full calendar of events can be found below…
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Jazz Album Recommendation: NIGHT TRAIN TO COPENHAGEN (Alvin Queen Trio on Stunt Records)
SUBLIME, SUBLIME, SUBLIME! THE SPIRIT OF OSCAR PETERSON LIVES ON WITH THE ALVIN QUEEN TRIO Alvin Queen arrived on the scene in the late 1960s, and quickly became known as the drummer for jazz icons including Horace Silver, Randy and Michael Brecker, George Benson, Tom Harrell, and many others: Even with this astounding resumé, Queen…
Interview: DAVID SERERO (director of “Tovah,” a documentary about Tovah Feldshuh)
by Shari Barrett | August 31, 2026
in Film, Interviews, Los AngelesMusic Preview: PACIFIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA BENEFIT CONCERT (October 10, 2026 | L.A.)
by pwsadmin | August 30, 2026
in Los Angeles, MusicTheater Review: ADOLESCENT SALVATION (Theater Wit / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | August 29, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterDance Preview: GLORYA KAUFMAN PRESENTS DANCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER 2026–27 (L.A.)
by pwsadmin | August 28, 2026
in Dance, Los AngelesTheater Preview: KAIJU (The Road Theatre Company & BroadStage / Los Angeles)
by pwsadmin | August 28, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterDance Preview: DRACULA, A DARK SHADOW (State Street Ballet / Santa Barbara)
by Gregory Bernard | August 28, 2026
in Dance, Los Angeles, RegionalTheater Review: BEING PIAF (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble / Los Angeles)
by Ernest Kearney | August 27, 2026
in Los Angeles, Theater
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