Areas We Cover

Categories hhhh

image - 2025-02-03T092338.004

Susan Gordon

  • Concert Review: BLUE NOTE JAZZ FESTIVAL (Hollywood Bowl)

    Blue Note Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl, June 14-15.
    By Susan Gordon | June 26, 2025
    in ,

    BLUE NOTE’S INAUGURAL JAZZ FESTIVAL SLAMS INTO THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL Dubbed “summer’s biggest party,” the Hollywood Bowl has witnessed countless musical transformations since 1922, but Saturday’s inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival felt particularly significant—a symbolic passing of the torch that honored the venue’s jazz heritage while boldly stepping into the future. This rebranding of the…

  • Review: HOLLYWOOD BOWL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2024

    Poster for Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival on June 17-18.
    By Susan Gordon | July 16, 2024
    in ,

    JAZZ ‘N’ STUFF Summer and the heat has arrived at the Hollywood Bowl along with the annual Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival which took place on Saturday June 15, the date for this review, and Sunday June 16, 2024. Co-curated by Kamasi Washington and Herbie Hancock, this is the third year under the new moniker after…

  • Concert Review: HERBIE HANCOCK & ESPERANZA SPALDING (The Hollywood Bowl)

    By Susan Gordon | October 4, 2021
    in ,

    The Hollywood Bowl’s Shortened Jazz Season Ends on a High Note! What a wonderful jazz fusion double-bill at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, September 26 featuring four-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist Esperanza Spalding accompanied by her long-time cohort, Argentinian Leo Genovese on keyboard, sax and accordion, opening up for the great pianist/composer, and one of the…

  • Concert Review: KOOL & THE GANG (Hollywood Bowl)

    By Susan Gordon | July 16, 2021
    in , ,

    IT’S A CELEBRATION, INDEED All is right with the world again – the Hollywood Bowl is back! There was no way that one of the largest July 4th Weekend Celebrations could disappoint, especially when one of the headliner’s biggest hits happens to be “Celebration” – the classic 1980 hit from the well-established soul-jazz to disco…

[my_pagination]

Search Articles

Please help keep
Stage and Cinema going!