"I think jazz musicians have a way of dealing with truth that is inherent in the music itself. In order to be a jazz musicians, you can't lie to yourself."
"It was not necessarily related to what is or is not here in Los Angeles. It was just something that I felt I needed to do as a person of Jewish extraction."
"If you pay attention we are all still trying to prove to our younger selves that we are more than we thought."
As the anchor to the sextet, Dutton appeared to be playing primarily with his eyes closed. I could hear him listening.
Catalina Jazz Club
May 20th
May 20th
"I think I'm just really greedy in some ways. People never believe me, but I don't feel like I'm that motivated by anything. I feel like a hedonist at the end of the day."
51 years ago cellist James Arkatov was a co-founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Libbey Bowl Ojai
May 18th - 19th
May 18th - 19th
"The last thing I would try to do would be to finish an opera for Shostakovich, but in a sense we're trying to finish a story he couldn't."
"The more I celebrate life that combats that loneliness, that's where my happiness comes from."