By CHARLES ANDREWS
Can I bestow a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED on a concert because of one short piece just before intermission? You bet I can, if it’s my music column
By CHARLES ANDREWS
Grammys coming up Sunday at Staples, all those music stars here have time on their hands, some inevitably pop up and perform at local venues, just for
By CHARLES ANDREWS
Seven things to choose amongst Friday, country-blues-rock-folk-classical-jazz -- well, six, then you can still make the Easy Rider midnight movie -- what exquisite torture. More, please.
HIGHLY
By CHARLES ANDREWS
TO ACCOMPANY GREAT MUSIC
Or you can have a fine time just being really close and catching every nuanced note from great jazz musicians, as was the
By CHARLES ANDREWS
COUNTRYCLASSICALPUNKJAZZGRUNGEBLUES
And Glass-Reich-Adams-Pärt Minimalism plus however you want to classify the awesome Stanley Clarke — and that’s all on Saturday!! Stay up Friday night and get up
By CHARLES ANDREWS
IT’S NEW YEAR’S EVE!
And all the excitement that brings!! Right. OK, here comes the Grinch, but I always thought the huge celebration over a
By CHARLES ANDREWS
BRAND X
What a great name for a British jazz-fusion band that was anything but generic. Formed by Genesis drummer Phil Collins and Atomic Rooster guitarist John
PARAMOUNT RANCH
As I pointed out in this column the week before last, an unexpected consequence of the recent horrible fires north of here was the loss of the location
By CHARLES ANDREWS
UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES
Of the horrible fires: the Paramount Ranch burned and the old Western town was severely damaged, and besides the loss of an historic, quaint movie
THIS WEEK
Country, jazz, rock, bluegrass, opera, folk, blues, classical, punk and Philip Glass. All in five days, actually. All of it memorable. And that’s why I live here.
