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Music historian catalogues Leonard Cohen’s musical history
October 15, 2014
Like many of us, author Harvey Kubernik first heard Leonard Cohen through his interpreters.
Alon Nechushtan: Jazz music with Israeli roots
July 9, 2014
The history of jazz is rife with junctures where the music received an infusion of creative innovation from the far-flung provinces: Louis Armstrong turned Chicago on its ear in the 1920s; the Count Basie Orchestra and Charlie Parker hit New York in 1936 and 1941, respectively; and Ornette Coleman left Los Angeles to “change the century” at New York’s Five Spot in 1959.
Photos capture numbers and words of Nazis’ Final Solution
August 21, 2008
A selection of 52 color digital images from Ehrlich\’s documentation of Nazi bureaucracy from Hitler\’s Final Solution will be on display in \”The Holocaust Archive Revealed\” at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica beginning Tuesday
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory
August 13, 2008
One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-\’80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.
Concerts celebrate Ash Grove’s golden legacy
April 17, 2008
Ed Pearl, 70, silver-haired and feisty, will forever be associated with the Ash Grove, the folk club he opened 50 years ago with a $5,000 investment, despite the fact that the venue\’s been closed for a quarter century.
\”My life,\” Pearl said, \”has been a series of fortuitous accidents. And,\” he ruefully adds, \”not-so fortuitous.\”
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