By Daily Press staff
Pianist Louis Durra will play a jazz concert with his trio on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica, 1260 18th St. Joining him will be drummer Jerry Kalaf and bassist Don Kasper. The trio will be performing jazz standards and their original music.
Durra has performed extensively on CDs, in live performances and on radio and TV. He has performed with a number of dancers and dance troupes, including The Jazz Tap Ensemble, Savion Glover, Derek Grant, Sam Weber and Eddie Brown. He toured Russia and the Baltic states last year with Just In Time, a jazz dance revue.
Durra has composed for film and television including the CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light, and various Movies-Of-The-Week. He also has scored and music-directed theatrical productions including at the Mark Taper Forum, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, and South Coast Repertory.
Tickets are $10. For more information, call (310) 403-8627.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 28, 2005. Read the original PDF.