Friends of Jazz at UCLA

08/04/2015

August 29 at The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, CA:

Gizzy Gillespie por su visita a Cuba.

07/28/2015

Jacky Terrasson ... Yosvany Terry & Baptiste Trotignon ... John Beasley's MONK'estra ... Charles Lloyd ... Alan Broadbent ... and more ....

07/19/2015

Catch Walter Smith III, tonight at blue whale. http://ow.ly/PMZOm

From the Walter Smith lll release "III" (Criss Cross, 2011) Walter Smith III: tenor saxophone Eric Harland: drums Jason Moran: piano Ambrose...

07/16/2015

Monday 7/13 - Natalie Cressman at Blue Whale Trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman is at Blue Whale in Little Tokyo with Mike Bono on guitar, Jonathan Stein on bass, and Mike Mitchell on drums. Saxo...

07/08/2015

Dolly Jones, the first women trumpeter to record a jazz record. http://ow.ly/PlORi

07/06/2015

Rip Louis Armstrong

“It’s been hard goddam work, man. Feel like I spent 20,000 years on the planes and railroads, like I blowed my chops off. Sure, Pops, I like the ovation, but when I’m low, beat down, wonder if maybe I hadn’t of been better off staying home in New Orleans.” Well thank heavens Louis Armstrong didn’t s…

07/06/2015

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group International Manteca · Dizzy Gillespie ℗ 1957 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Release...

07/06/2015

The BBC Late Show, 1989

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - BBC Late Show 1989. Art Blakey - drums. The band includes: Javon Jackson, Craig Handy - tenor sax, Brian Lynch - trumpet...

07/06/2015

Art Blakey
http://artblakey.com

07/01/2015

Thank you LAJazz.com for all info!

Tom Meek first began writing "About & Out" in 2007 before becoming Editor of LAjazz.com in 2011, and President & Managing Editor in July, 2014. Tom is a Los Angeles-area native who grew up in Ohio with a father who was a noted regional swing drummer and a library of thousands of jazz and popular re…

06/28/2015

Happy Sunday friends.

Are you familiar with Snarky Puppy?

Snarky Puppy - Young Stuff From the live DVD "groundUP" (available at http://groundup.ropeadope.com) Recorded and filmed live (free of overdubs) on December ...