Tag: Playboy Jazz Festival
Terence Blanchard: From Jazz to Opera in One Week
"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."
Quiana Lynell: From Local Singer to the Playboy Jazz Festival
"It's just the right time in my life is how I feel. I couldn't have planned it any better if I tried."
The Six Shows You Must See: This Weekend in LA...
Shakespeare, O'Neill, Brahms, The Tony Awards, Playboy Jazz Festival and the last weekend for Soft Power
Jazz Legend Charles Lloyd Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Listening For
"If I could find that sound of all sounds, which I’ve been striving for all my life, I’d put on the loin cloth and go back into the forest."
George Lopez Really Wants to Perform at the Playboy Jazz Festival,...
“The fact that it starts at 3 p.m. and goes to 10:45 p.m. seems like a long time,” George Lopez says of the Playboy...
Aloe Blacc’s Music Forces Him out of His Comfort Zone
It seems that every story about singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc begins with “you may not know his name, but….” The best follow-up to that is...
Terence Blanchard Celebrates the Legacy and Future of Jazz in Two...
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard once said, “If you are hung up on maintaining the tradition, you’re never going to be yourself....