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Jazz at LACMA
Sunday 7:00pm
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Airing every Sunday from 7-9 pm, this weekly series will feature performances from LACMA's live jazz concerts, along with interview segments with the musicians.
May 5: Arturo Sandoval
Nine-time Grammy Award winner, including the 2013 Grammy for his recording "Dear Diz" and trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval opens the twenty-second season of Jazz at LACMA. A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Cuban-born Sandoval is one of the most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time, performing in concerts around the world as well as on the Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Billboard Music Award shows.
May 12: John Proulx
The jazz scene is all abuzz about young singer/pianist/composer John Proulx. His piano playing is hot and swinging, and his voice recalls the smooth, mellow sounds of a young Chet Baker. John's latest CD, Baker's Dozen (Remembering Chet Baker) is a tribute to the late trumpet player and vocalist. "Proulx is front and center, overflowing with fresh zeal and sparkling energy."-Jazz Time
May 19: Charles Owens Quintet
World-class tenor sax, soprano sax, and flute player Charles Owens is a fearless virtuoso with his own distinctive musical voice. A featured soloist with the Clayton Hamilton Orchestra, he also serves as conductor of the Luckman Jazz Orchestra. Over the years, he has worked with Horace Tapscott, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, James Newton, John Carter, and Patrice Rushen.
May 26: Greg Reitan Trio
Pianist and composer Greg Reitan is the leader of an award-winning trio that placed second in the 1996 Hennessy Jazz Search in New York. Reitan was also a finalist in the 1995 Great American Jazz Piano Competition and the recipient of the inaugural 2002 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. In 2000, he joined forces with prominent record producer Orrin Keepnews (Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk) to work on projects, including his latest release, Antibes.
June 2: Wolfgang Schalk Quartet
Hailed by critics in the U.S. and Europe as "one of the best jazz guitarists," Wolfgang Schalk delivers hard-swinging and emotive compositions in the vein of the patriarchal jazz-guitarist lineage while highlighting his membership in the elite club of today's creative voices. A guitarist with impeccable chops, Schalk's musicianship is illuminated on both electric and nylon-string guitar. Recalling the sounds of esteemed fret-board masters Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Pat Martino, and Pat Metheny, Schalk expands on the tradition by playing dynamic music expressing thoughtfulness and original artistic abilities as one of today's authentic jazz guitarists
June 9: CJs Quintet
Winners of the Chuck Niles jazz Music Award, CJS Quintet is recognized for its hard driving, soulful swing, laden with the blues. "A credibly modern extension of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach hard bop aesthetic: delightful tunes, cleanly played ensembles, crisp rhythm-section work, and consistent solos."
-Kirk Silsbee. The quintet, led by saxophonist Chuck Johnson and trumpeter James Smith, pays homage to Los Angeles born, sax legend Dexter Gordon in recognition of his 90th birth-year.
June 16: Sandra Booker
Sandra Booker is regarded as one of the emerging and important voices in modern jazz vocal music, and was selected as finalist last fall in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Highly respected by her jazz contemporaries for her virtuosic scat ability, impeccable timing, crystalline tone, and irrepressible musicality, the New Orleans native has a style that is familiar and completely new, all at the same time. She has performed with many jazz luminaries and rising stars, including Lalo Schifrin, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr., the New Orleans Jazz Messengers, Patrice Rushen, and Karen Briggs.
June 23: Jon Mayer Trio with Jackie Ryan
Pianist and recording artist Jon Mayer began his career with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan, and Dionne Warwick. As a leader, he has been joined by such legendary artists as Ron Carter, Ernie Watts, and Billy Higgins, and his live and studio recordings are staples on jazz stations across the country. "Mayer proved himself to be a musician of considerable technical abilities with a mature, engaging improvisational sense and an extreme sensitivity to the music going on around him." -Los AngelesTimes
June 30: Billy Childs Quartet
Multiple Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Billy Childs returns to LACMA with his new quartet. Childs, who began his career as pianist for Freddie Hubbard and J.J. Johnson, has worked with such notables as Yo-Yo Ma, Sting, the Kronos Quartet, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter, and the Ying String Quartet. His compositions have been performed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
July 7: The Jazz Leaders
The Jazz Leaders is a newly formed sextet comprised of Southern California's finest bandleaders-Dr. Bobby Rodriguez on trumpet and flügelhorn, Rickey Woodard on sax, Billy Mitchell on piano, Ryan Cross on bass, Bobby Matos on congas, and Paul Kreibich on drums. The ensemble recorded its debut album in May 2012 and has been performing at leading clubs around Los Angeles.
July 14: Inga Swearingen
Vocalist, songwriter, and recording artist Inga Swearingen has traveled the world performing at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and the Festival of Voices, singing her own unique blend of jazz and folk music. Swearingen won first place at the Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion broadcasts and in concerts across the country. Whether putting her personal stamp on a jazz standard or combining the understated grooves of bossa nova with Swedish folk melodies, Inga captivates her audience with her gift of joyful melodic invention. |
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