Last week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced the 2012 recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Awards, which “recognize outstanding musicians for their lifetime achievements and significant contributions to…
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CalArts Celebrates 22 Years of Capitol Records Jazz CD
On Wednesday (May 18) CalArts Jazz Studies Program—led by David Roitstein—celebrated the release of CalArts Jazz 2011. Produced by Capitol/EMI, the 22nd edition of the CD, which is recorded and…
Continue reading »CalArtians at the Angel City Jazz Festival this Weekend in Los Angeles
The Angel City Jazz Festival—which kicks off on Saturday for a week-long run—is a non-commercial jazz and new music festival featuring the music of both established and emerging jazz artists….
Continue reading »No. 21: CalArts 2010 Jazz CD Released
For more than two decades, CalArts students have written, performed and recorded mostly original jazz and world music compositions at the world-famous Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Friday marked the anticipated…
Continue reading »Bassist Charlie Haden and Director Reto Caduff Screen Rambling Boy at the Bijou
The documentary Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy will be screened tonight at the Bijou Theater at CalArts as part of the School of Film/Video’s Structuring Strategies class and screening series. Written…
Continue reading »Heard @CalArts: Maxwell Gualtieri Octet
One of the great things about CalArts is the music echoing through the Main Gallery. 24700 caught a part of the Jazz at Noon series on Friday presented by The Herb…
Continue reading »Aesthetics and Politics Visiting Lecturer Brent Edwards on Jazz and History
Brent Hayes Edwards, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, visits CalArts tonight to discuss his latest work and research in the lecture on…
Continue reading »Music Faculty Wadada Leo Smith Featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’
2009 was a busy year for trumpeter, composer and CalArts faculty Wadada Leo Smith. In October, he released Spiritual Dimensions, a new two-disc set of live concert recordings, and there…
Continue reading »Heard at CalArts: the Alphonso Johnson Ensemble
There’s a daily overabundance of sights and sounds at CalArts, so every now and then we’ll capture them and post on 24700. Walking through the main gallery a few weeks…
Continue reading »Jazz Studies Program Founder Charlie Haden at the LA Phil with Family and Friends
Jazz legend and CalArts’ Jazz Studies Program founder Charlie Haden revisits his bluegrass/country roots tomorrow night (Nov. 17) with an LA Phil concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown…
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