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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…
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Opera: WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS (LA Opera Digital Short)
LA Opera’s next Digital Short, We Hold These Truths, premieres on March 4, 2022 LA Opera has commissioned some of today’s most in-demand artists to create a series of short musical films. Superstar composers team up with talented visual artists including animators, experimental filmmakers and choreographers to bring you a number of new pieces throughout the fall and…
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Jazz: CONNIE HAN TRIO (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
Pianist and composer Connie Han takes on the pantheon of jazz piano ranging from Harlem stride to modal post-bop with her own fiery, contemporary style. Her performances are both powerful and elegant, putting a fresh spin on tradition. The New York Times calls her “the rare musician with fearsome technical chops and a breadth of…
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Album Release: 89 (Charlie Gabriel and Preservation Hall Band)
DREAMY JAZZ ALBUM 89 IS THE TONIC FOR OUR TIME “I’ve been playing since I was 11 years old,” says Charlie Gabriel, the most senior member of the legendary Preservation Hall Band, “I never did anything in my life but play music. I’ve been blessed with that gift that God gave me, and I’ve tried…
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Recommended Music Concert: AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY (Sounds About Town at Disney Concert Hall, March 6, 2022)
The American Youth Symphony (AYS), led by Music Director Carlos Izcaray, returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall on the LA Phil’s “Sounds About Town” series on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Works by Brian Raphael Nabors, Jennifer Higdon, Unsuk Chin, Jimmy Lopez, Tchaikovsky and Izcaray complete a program that celebrates cultural diversity through…
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Concert: ON BROADWAY (Smothers Theatre; Pepperdine, Malibu)
Broadway Stars Perform Musical Theatre Hits in Malibu Featuring the best songs from the current New York City theatre season and sung by Broadway stars with a live band, On Broadway is an unforgettable night of music. The show includes hits from long-running favorites like The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, and The Book of…
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Album: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: SYMPHONIC SUITES (Decca)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Suites from Three of His Best-Loved Musicals: Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Boulevard Recorded at the Newly Restored Theatre RoyalDrury Lane with an 81-Piece Orchestra Concert Film on YouTube Purchase and Stream:https://alw.lnk.to/SymphonicSuitesSo www.andrewlloydwebber.com Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new album, Symphonic Suites, is out on Decca Records. Music from three of the composer’s best-loved…
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Jazz Preview: JAZZ AT NAZ (Feb. 5-19 at The Soraya in Northridge)
JAZZING UP THEIR GAME AT THE SORAYA The Soraya has long been at the epicenter of Jazz in LA’”from CSUN’s nationally respected Jazz studies program, to The Soraya’s stellar reputation for Jazz programming. This year, The Soraya dials up its investment in America’s one true original art form with its first annual, month-long jazz Festival Jazz…
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Classical Album: UNCOVERED VOLUME 2: FLORENCE B. PRICE (Catalyst Quartet)
On Friday, February 4, 2022, GRAMMY Award-winning Catalyst Quartet releases UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price on Azica Records. The digital album is the second issue of a multi-volume anthology highlighting string quartet works by historically important Black composers which aims to bring greater awareness and programming of their music. Volume 2 is entirely devoted…
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Jazz Preview: THE PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL IS NOW THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL JAZZ FESTIVAL (LA Phil)
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES INITIAL LINEUP FOR 2022 HOLLYWOOD BOWL JAZZ FESTIVAL Beloved Festival Celebrates 42nd Year in 2022 Artists Slated to Appear Include The Roots, Gregory Porter, Tower of Power, Terri Lyne Carrington, Femi Kuti, Cory Wong, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, José James, Gerald Clayton, Azar Lawrence, Gordon Goodwin and more June 25–26, 2022,…
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by Michael Landman-Karney | August 10, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterMuseum Preview: THE BOWERY: DEVIL’S MILE (New Museum / New York)
by Gregory Bernard | August 8, 2026
in Art and Museums, New YorkTheater Review: IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT (Shotgun Players / Berkeley)
by Chuck Louden | August 7, 2026
in San Francisco
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by Croydon Fernandes | August 7, 2026
in Chicago, Theater, ToursTheater Review: MARBLE (The Gift Theatre / Copernicus Center / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | August 6, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: CITY OF ANGELS (Ogunquit Playhouse / Ogunquit, Maine)
by Lynne Weiss | August 6, 2026
in Regional, TheaterTheater Review: THE SAVIORS (Atlantic Theater Company / New York)
by Alex Simmons | August 6, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Preview: MYSTIC PIZZA (National Tour)
by Gregory Bernard | August 6, 2026
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