An evening of innovative music by a slice of L.A. finest writers and performers under the San Gabriel Mountain sky !!!!!!
Private dinner Concert ’round Sunset in the hills
Sunday May 20th, 2012
6:00 – 9:30pm
477 North Baldwin Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca,91024
Michael McDaniel
This is an invitation to celebrate the release of recent works by Michael McDaniel and vocalist Gaby Hernandez, a taste of the creative expressions of singer and song writer Brandon Mayer, and the unique song stylings of Emile Porée.
Musicians include :
Trevor Ware ~ bass
Paul Legaspi ~ drums & percussion
Damon Aaron ~ guitar, bass, vocals & fx
Dextor Story ~ drums, bass
Allajoi Peete ~ perrcussion
The event will be a Live Broadcast with your host and Master of Ceremonies
KPFK 90.7 announces its honorees for the 2nd Annual KPFK Hero Awards and Tribute.
The Hero Awards is a benefit series for the Los Angeles-based Pacifica Radio station. The event honors icons of our time that have left an impact on music and community.
Click picture of Gil above for Promo
This year’s honoree is Gil Scott-Heron (musician/political poet),
with special awards to Charlie Haden (musician/activist), Fernando Pullum (musician/educator) and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Pete Seeger (musician/activist) for his contributions as an artist and activist in the U.S.
The 2nd Annual KPFK Hero Awards and Tribute is set to take place on
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
7PM
VIP Reception from 5-7pm with Silent Auction
Confirmed Presenters and Performing Artists include:
•Jackson Browne •John Densmore (The Doors) Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith •Violinist Lili Haydn •Nailah Porter • Roger Guenveur Smith • Rock DJ Jim Ladd, The Haden Triplets, Jack Black, Josh Haden and Spain, John Trudell, Students from the Fernando Pullum Performing Arts High School Jazz Ensemble, and with a special youth performance from the 32nd Street Jazz Band. Brian Jackson, Music Director (long-time collaborator with Gil Scott-Heron), LeRoy Downs
and Host: Richard Montoya,
The KPFK Hero Awards and Tribute launched in 2010 honoring Jazz legend Billy Higgins. The idea for the series was the result of a heartfelt on-air conversation between KPFK Music Director Maggie LePique and musician Charles Lloyd about Billy Higgins, during which LePique thought it would be relevant for KPFK 90.7 to mark the upcoming 10th anniversary of Higgins’ death by celebrating his life and body of work.
She enlisted Kasey Lovelace, Music Consultant and friend of the Higgins family to develop the idea into a full-scale event. Catalina Popescu, owner of Catalina Bar and Grill, honored her long friendship with LePique and Higgins by donating her world-renowned venue for the tribute by Higgins’ esteemed contemporaries such as Stanley Clarke, Charles Lloyd, George Duke, Kenny Burrell, with Music Director John Beasley, among others who performed to a “standing room only” audience. The demand from both the music and public affairs community has prompted the station to continue as an annual award series.
KPFK 90.7 FM is a member station of the Pacifica Foundation, which consists of five radio stations, over 100 affiliate stations, and the Pacifica Radio Archives, responsible for preserving the voices of artists, activists and progressive journalists since 1949, when the foundation was established by peace activist Lew Hill. To further peace through broadcasting activities, Hill determined that radio sponsored by individual listeners would be the best way to ensure editorial freedom. The KPFK Hero Awards and Tribute is a means to both raise funds and advance the Pacifica Mission.
For updates on the 2nd Annual KPFK Hero Awards and Tribute log onto www.kpfk.org
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Make Music LA, Los Angeles’ affiliate with the Fete de la Musique International,
today announced its inaugural celebration on June 21, 2012. The festival, which celebrates the summer solstice with musical performances around the greater Los Angeles area, is part of a global musical festival based on France’s Fete de la Musique, a national musical holiday inaugurated in 1982. The festival has become an international phenomenon celebrated on the same day in more than 460 cities and 110 countries, including Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Chile and Japan.
The festival is open to all to participate, amateurs, students, professionals and established artists are all welcome. Musicians and other participants volunteer their time and talents and admission to all events is FREE!
“This inspiring event brings everyone together to share their heritage, music, art and food with family, friends and neighbors”
Click Picture below for Make Music LA!!
June 21, 2012
Free Music All Over Los Angeles Outdoors Everywhere
We Need You to sign up and PLAY!!!
Listen to MMLA commercial and scan for you phone!!!
– Summer Solstice is significant symbolizing rebirth and renewal. “Our hope is to inspire new creative works, develop new audiences and celebrate our cultural differences by crisscrossing the county and discovering the hidden musical gems L.A has to offer,” says MMLA Founder Executive Director Dorsay Dujon.
“I’m thrilled that Los Angeles is joining the global community of Make Music, and I’m looking forward to the event on June 21 when Angelenos will be able to enjoy creating and listening to music at venues across the city,” said L.A. City Councilmember Eric Garcetti.
Unlike many music festivals, Make Music Los Angeles is about neighborhoods and about people getting together in their neighborhoods in a do-it-yourself fashion, putting together their own musical events.
“This inspiring event brings everyone together to share their heritage, music, art and food with family, friends and neighbors,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. “Los Angeles is rightly acknowledged as a world center for art and music; it’s true cultural wealth, however, lies in its communities. This is the beginning of what I hope will be a wonderful new tradition.”
Artists and locations collaborate to produce the events, find electricity and provide whatever equipment is needed. Angelenos can participate as musicians, volunteers and hosts by using MMLA’s matchmaking tool located on www.MakeMusicLA.org to register and make concert arrangements with each other.
A variety of locations are possible for concerts, including sidewalks, community gardens, plazas, schools, courtyards and parks. Other outdoor locations, cemeteries, bridges, subway stations, piers, busses or trains may be arranged by contacting MMLA.
Relationships are developing with talented local artists, local businesses, community leaders and other amazing MMLA organizers throughout the county. The City and County of Los Angeles are showing support by drafting resolutions declaring June 21st as Make Music LA Day.
“Make Music festivals thrill and delight audiences the world over,” says Dujon. “At Make Music LA, we want to encourage the relationship between our culturally diverse communities’ residents and visitors to hear and play music for one another.”
First let me tell you about our organization: We (MMLA) are a grass roots organization made up of art and music enthusiasts who are dedicated to mounting a unique all day musical celebration for everyone in Los Angeles County.
On June 21st Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding communities (West Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Santa Monica and San Pedro to name a few) will be alive with free outdoor concerts. There are no fee’s to participate for anyone. (I do understand that as a venue you would pay artists to perform).
Make Music Los Angeles is patterned after the Fete de la Musiqe in France. (We are working with the French Consulate — Etienne Farreyre, Deputy Attaché’) in addition to Make Music New York — we are in contact with Aaron Friedman president of MMNY for the past year.
Click on MMLA above and be apart of the celebration!!! You would love for you to play, host and event, help organize an event or just make sure you come out on June 21st to celebrate art and music!!!!
As part of the Black Talkies on Parade film series, The Mayme Clayton Library and Museum will screen Round Midnight, which features a lead performance by legendary jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Gordon portrays the fictional character Dale Turner, a tenor sax player who is slowly losing his battle with alcoholism and is hanging by a thread in 1950′s New York. In Paris he finds that the “Jim crow” racism of the American “color line” does not exist. His experiences re-ignite his passion for jazz music and life.
The Cats
Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Billy Higgins, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard…….
A panel discussion about the film will be moderated by LeRoy Downs featuring panelists Mark Maxwell, Les Wills, Lloyd Clayton
Come and celebrate two of Los Angeles’ finest musicians
Henry “The Skipper” Franklin
Al Williams
Food preperation by Chef Wendy Austin from 6 to 6:45pm
The performance will commence at 7Pm
at the Regency West in Lemiert Park
3339 West 43rd Street
Hosted by yours truly LeRoy Downs
The Living Legend’s Jazz Series is founded by Linda Morgan and tonight she teams up with The Sweet and Hot Music Foundation, another one of Los Angeles’ promoters of jazz Merle Kreibich
Panel guests will include Tootie Heath, Dr. Lesa Terry, Evelyn Mason, Kristen Johnson,
LeRoy Downs, Phil Wright and moderated by Chet Hanley
Panelists:
Tootie Heath
Albert “Tootie” Heath is a jazz hard bop drummer with an elaborate and successful career that spans decades. He comes from a family of talented and successful musicians. He’s recorded with John Coltrane,
Wes Montgomery, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Nina Simone, Yusef Lateef and many more. Along with Jimmy and Percy, he formed the Heath Brothers. Mr. Heath has also been a mentor and teacher at many institutions including a continued stay at Stanford University.
Lesa Terry
Dr. Lesa Terry is a violinist, composer, artistic director, educator, and scholar. Her accomplishments include membership with the Atlanta
and Nashville Symphony Orchestras, as well as performances, lectures,
clinics and master classes with the Uptown String Quartet and Max
Roach Double Quartet. Ms. Terry serves as the founder and musical
director for the Women’s Jazz Orchestra of Los Angeles, recently
presenting stellar performances for the World Festival of Sacred Music
and Summer Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl.
Evelyn Mason, the niece of Abbey Lincoln was born in Chicago and
resides in Los Angeles, California. She has worked as a nurse, an
opera singer and as an advocate for grandparents and caregivers.
Kristen Johnson is the great niece of Abbey Lincoln. She’s currently a
5th grade teacher in Los Angeles as well as a real estate investor.
LeRoy Downs
LeRoy Downs is a jazz broadcaster in Los Angeles on KJazz 88.1 FM. He has also broadcasted on KPFK 90.7 FM, KXLU 88.9 FM, 1410 AM KRML in Carmel and KRML 94.7 FM in the Monterey area, KTTEradio.com and soon to have his own internet radio station Sounds and Colors Radio.
He has been the host of the Monterey Jazz Festival for over a decade as well as The Jazz Cruise, The Playboy Jazz Cruise, The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz West Coast competitions to name a few, as well as curating many jazz
projects. Mr. Downs is producer of the made for television pilot
“Hangin’ with the Jazzcats” and owner and journalist for the website TheJazzcat.net.
Phil Wright
Phil Wright grew up in New York City, his career in music spans over 50 years. As a pianist, arranger, composer and producer he has been involved with many musical productions. In the 1950′s he worked with Abbey Lincoln, Gigi Gryce, Benny Green and Betty Carter. In the
1960′s he was staff arranger at Chess Records in Chicago and a member of the Regal Theater house band. He next worked at Capitol Records in Hollywood as an arranger and producer with Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Lou Rawls and many others. He was conductor pianist for Nancy Wilson during most of the 1970′s. In the 1980′s Wright toured Europe as conductor for the Broadway show “Sophisticated Ladies.” Since that time he served ad music director at Maple Drive restaurant in Beverly Hills. He has recorded with many artists including Barbara Morrison, Ernie Andrews and Al McKibbon. Wright recorded two albums under his
own name, 3Bop and Feeling Right.
Chet Hanley
Moderated by, professor and historian Chet Hanley. Mr. Hanley has
hosted over 150 episodes of
a college curriculum course and jazz music television show broadcast from the campus of Cal-State Dominguez Hills (Locally, it airs Tuesdays, 9:00 -
10:30PM on Time-Warner Cable Channel 36, and online).
This panel is in conjunction with William Grant Still Arts Center’s
annual African American composer study featuring the exhibit
DEEDS NOT WORDS
The life and work of Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln as well as
Music LA Free African American Heritage Music Education Program
focusing on Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln
The William Grant Still Arts Center is a facility of the City of Los
Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
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Director
William Grant Still Arts Center
2520 S. Westview st.
Los Angeles, ca. 90016 323-734-1165
An evening of innovative music by a slice of L.A. finest writers and performers under the San Gabriel Mountain sky !!!!!!
Private dinner Concert ’round Sunset in the hills
6:00 – 9:30pm
Michael McDaniel
This is an invitation to celebrate the release of recent works by Michael McDaniel and vocalist Gaby Hernandez, a taste of the creative expressions of singer and song writer Brandon Mayer, and the unique song stylings of Emile Porée.
$20 suggested donation $15 each for couples
