Today 'til around 10:30pm, the Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood is the home of the Angel City Jazz Festival. Featuring various jazz acts from around town and indeed around the country, this event is featuring artists running the spectrum like The Alan Pasqua Quartet, Motoko Honda, Andy Milne's Dapp Theory, Option 3, the Nels Cline Quintet and many others. Tickets are $25, VIP (which includes backstage passes and choice seats), parking is either the parking......

Dios Malos starts their Monday night September residency tonight One of the best spaces for cutting edge jazz in Los Angeles is Rocco Somazzi's lineups at Cafe Metropol in downtown's Arts District. Today he brings his tastes up to Hollywood for today's Angel City Jazz Festival. Tonight Ice Cube @ House of Blues The Blasters @ Safari Sam's Angel City Jazz Festival @ Barnsdall Park Daniel Brummel, Odd Modern, Berry @ Mr. T's Bowl......

One wouldn't really expect to go to the LACMA to go see great classical music, but during the season every Sunday at 6 there is a free concert of some great mid-career musicians or student virtuosos, broadcasted on 88.5 KCSN. Today we have violinist Hahn-Bin and pianist John Blacklow performing the Mozart and Franck violin sonatas. Next week on Friday we have jazz singer/songwriter/pianist Bill Cantos takes the stage, and on Sunday we have cellist......

We just really liked this photo of a Manhattan Beach sunset. / Photo by karthikkito via LAist's photo pool. FILM: What We Do Is Secret, The Germs’ biopic finally hits LA. Watch the rise and fall of the punk scene embodied by lead singer Darby Crash—and true to rock legend form—played hard and died too young. The Nuart has multiple screenings tonight with Q&A and introductions from original Germs Lorna Doom, Pat Smear and......

FILM: Attention all Hitchcock fans: The New Beverly Cinema screens two of his classics tonight and through the weekend. The spy thriller Notorious with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant begins at 7:30 pm and it’s followed by Rebecca with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. THEATRE*: The Falcon Theatre presents the Troubadour Theater Company tonight in a preview of the comedy As U2 Like It. The show’s a parody of Shakespeare’s As You Like It,......

Old men smile at each other's stories over games of dominoes played on card tables set up on the street corner. Ladies in their Sunday best daintily nibble cake at outdoor cafes, and children run laughing around the fountain in the park. People stop to chat as they meander along the boulevard. This is not a scene from another era; it's a typical Sunday afternoon in Leimert Park.......

Photo courtesy of Polyfoto via Flickr You know its officially summer when the Hollywood Bowl schedule is in full swing and your local Whole Foods boast empty shelves of wine and cheese. Yes, the sun is out later and perfect temperatures always serve as a pleasant compliment to any night of music, but that isn’t to say that there’s nothing going on in your favorite sweaty rock venue. July happens to be a jam-packed month,......

part 1 of "Rhapsody in Blue" from Fantasia 2000 The California Phil is one of the many great orchestras in the Los Angeles area that offers varied and exciting programming in the Ambassador and the Walt Disney Concert Hall throughout the year. They open up their summer season with a concert at the Arboretum, a beautiful botanic garden located in the heart of Arcadia. The Arboretum is a 127-acre park which includes the famous......

Return to Forever is no "Boy Band"--they'd rather be called a "Man's Band." | Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Used with permission By Roger Park Musical mastery is a rare beauty. On Friday, legendary jazz supergroup Return to Forever played two sets to an enthusiastic audience at the Gibson Amphitheater. Formed by keyboardist Chick Corea over 30 years ago, Friday’s classic lineup featured bassist Stanley Clarke, guitarist Al Di Meola and drummer Lenny White. The group......

Photo by coffeextv via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. MUSIC Check out the Viper Room’s Sunday night music special, Free Form Orchestra, free with RSVP. Original music created by some of L.A.’s finest young emerging talent, these guys and girls will really blow you away with their jazz-funk beats. 8:30 p.m. // Viper Room // 8852 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles // (310) 358-1881 // Free ART The Pasadena Museum of California Art......

Jazz pianist and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra composer-in-residence Uri Caine will be making an in-store appearance at Amoeba Music tonight at 7:00 p.m. A legendary improviser, Caine’s source music and influences runs far and wide from Mozart to Monk to the Beatles and beyond. Definitely worth checking out, especially since it's free (video profile of Caine embedded below) Tonight The Heavy @ Bordello The Oohlas @ Spaceland Uri Caine @ Amoeba Records Blank Blue (CD......

Photo by toastycakes via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr HELP The biggest city-wide community service event happens today all around L.A. It’s the 10th Anniversary of Big Sunday, an event dedicated to bringing people together of all ages to help others. There will be a massive flea market and an art show to raise money for the underprivileged. 9 a.m. // Several locations around the city // Los Angeles // Free MUSIC......

Celebrate your weekend. | Photo by ronnie44052 via Flickr Not everyone is going to Coachella this weekend. For those who choose to stay put in Los Angeles, the city is literally filled with events this weekend: AltBuild Expo at SaMo Civic Auditorium: an eco-friendy building & design expo LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA: a must see & do Fiesta Broadway at Downtown: party!......

Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena (September 26, 1924 - April 9, 2008) Early yesterday morning, Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena passed away peacefully at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance with his family at his side. Music producer, promoter, A&R man and jazz enthusiast, over the years Ozzie Cadena collaborated with some of the best in the business. A longtime jazz lover, Cadena worked at Savoy Records in Newark, New Jersey during the 1950s as a producer and......

A few weeks ago, LAist was invited to see Herbie Hancock perform live, at the Nissan Live studio in Century City. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music is a series of performances attended by fans (plus a friend) for an intimate show of around 400 that features A-list artists, and released only on Yahoo! Music. Previous shows mentioned by LAist include Iggy and the Stooges,......

OL' BLUE EYES Join the LA Philharmonic as they present an evening of big band and jazzy standards written for "The Chairman of the Board" in a show called Dear Mr Sinatra. Vocals are provided by contemporary vocalist and guitarist John Pizzarelli in a guest performance. 7:30 p.m. // Walt Disney Concert Hall // 111 S. Grande Avenue // (323) 850-2000 // $35-$95 THEATRE Secrets of the Trade at the Black Dahlia is described as......

Herbie Hancock is, hands down, one of the best Jazz musicians of time. After all, he won two Grammy Awards this year including Album of the Year for 'River: The Joni Letters'. And because Los Angeles is so cool like that with all the filming and stuff that goes on here, a week from this Thursday, you can be see him live, for free, in an intimate setting (as intimate as 400 people gets). Yahoo!......

Today the small town of Montrose, known first as "Glendale's first suburb," hits the big 9-5, and the Founders Day Celebration is expected to be a big draw. Founders Day festivities will include awards presented to community members for service, a nine-tier birthday cake, historic photos on display, and "the ringing of the bell from the last of the Glendale & Montrose Railway Cars." The event is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 2......

West Indian Girl plays The Troubadour tonight | Photo by Ty Parker via their MySpace LA Weekly points us to some hot picks for tonight. About Girl in Coma: "Joan Jett knows a thing or two about rock & roll, and her latest protegees, Girl in a Coma, on her Blackheart label are one of the best and most interesting bands to come out of Texas in a long time," writes Falling James. They......

Actor Roy Scheider died today at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock where he had been undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma. Scheider's career began in the late 1950s but he came to widespread public attention in the 1970s, highlights include: Klute (with Jane Fonda in 1971) quickly followed by the incredible French Connection (1971), Jaws (1975), Marathon Man (1976), and All That Jazz (1979). Any one of those films could......

Last August, Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne, Rob Laufer, Ian Ball from Gomez, and Al Jorgensen joined Cheap Trick and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to recreate Sgt. Peppers on it's 40th Anniversary. They'll do it again June 28th. We're four months out from the official start of the 2008 Hollywood Bowl Season and the schedule is nearly complete. Single tickets won't go on sale for a couple months but the Bowl is offering 16 different......

Lakers 103, Washington Wizards 91 - The game wasn’t as close as the final score indicates. The Lakers led by 22 at halftime, and led by as much as 25 points in the third quarter. Kobe Bryant, who outscored the Wizards in the first quarter 19-15, ended up with 30 points on 10-15 shooting with eight free throws. Vladamir Radmanovic, Lamar Odom and Ronny Turiaf rounded out the starters with double-figure scoring, and Sasha Vujacic......

The Cuban Cowboys, who were profiled on NPR last October, play tonight at the Temple Bar | Photo from their MySpace page Last Friday when A-Trak and Kid Sister played at New York City's Natural History Museum, Kanye West made a surprise visit. Neither Flavorpill or the Natural History Museum list Kanye for tonight's version of the NYC event, First Friday, but rumors are afloat, as they're bound to happen. Nevertheless, the evening looks......

The Airborne Toxic Event at soundcheck (see more photos here) | Photo by Koga/LAist It's the fifth Thursday of the month and this is your last chance to see The Airborne Toxic Event in their January Spaceland residency. KROQ and Indie 103.1 both added their song "Sometime Around Midnight" to their rotations last week and Airborne hears this is the first time in about 15 years KROQ has done this with an unsigned band......

TALK Michael Alexander, author of Jazz Age and the Jews, will discuss Jewish life in the roaring 20s, including performer Al Jolson, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and mobster Arnold Rothstein in the lecture “‘Mammy, Don’t You Know Me?’: Al Jolson and the Jews.” He’ll discuss the 1920s as a heyday of Jewish culture, but why many identified with groups that remained marginalized. Book signing and dessert reception will follow. 7 pm // Davidson Conference......

Portland based musician and known as "the Stephen King of Indie Pop," Chris Robley and his band -- Fear of Heights -- play at Mr. T's Bowl tonight in Highland Park. Plenty of MP3s to check out of this indie-pop folk band below. Mr. Lif & The Perceptionists @ The Knitting Factory Jessie Evans, Von Iva, Deadbeats @ Silverlake Lounge Chuck Berghofer Midnight Jazz Band @ Charlie O's (Valley jazz club, not downtown one) The......

Tonight's the first show of undergrounDNUOS, which is a nonprofit night of collaboration and experimentation put on by Amoeba Music and its employees as a labor of love. " It is a monthly series set at various underground spaces, art galleries, warehouses, and strange bars embracing the concepts of improvisation in any genre and any sound... it is designed to be a space for people to step outside of what they normally do and......

TALK What’s up with all the development in Downtown LA? What’s it going to look like in 5, 10 or 20 years? Moderated by Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic, ALOUD at the Central Library features panelists Lauren Bon, Tom Gilmore, Martha Welborne and James Von Klemperer, AIA to discuss all things Downtown and development. 7 PM // ALOUD at the Central Library: Mark Taper Auditorium // 631 Fifth & Flower streets, LA......

Eric Krasno (Guitar), Neal Evans (Hammond Organ) and Alan Evans (drums, not pictured) Collectively Known as Soulive Moved the Knitting Factory Crowd Saturday Night Every January, organ trio, Soulive heads out to Southern California for The NAMM Show. While the trio of Eric Krasno, Neal Evans and Alan Evans take part in the gathering of music industry professionals, they also book themselves a few concerts in Anaheim and Los Angeles to give the SoCal......

Artist: Brownout Album: Homenaje Label: Freestyle Records Release Date: 01/29/2008 I'm really pleased to have a new favorite album and even more pleased to have it be from this year. Brownout is a side project of Grupo Fantasma but they are definitely not on the sidelines - they are an amazing hardcore funk phenomena from Austin and LA's in luck since they will be playing two gigs in town this week: Thursday @ the Rootdown......