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My Favorite Things
I always hated end of year retrospectives–still do–I used to like writing about what was happening now instead of what happened the previous January. The LA Weekly editors used to ask, and I’d hem and...
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Michael Buble
(2009–Brick’s Picks, LA Weekly) Finally thought we’d mention that a recent night’s club hopping wound up late at a jumping Foundry on Melrose just in time to catch guitarist Perry Smith and the house...
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Tigran Hamasyan
(This appeared in the Armenian Reporter, of all places, in spring, 2008. Wall Street hadn’t caved in yet, clubs were packed and the future looked forever. Good times. I used to hit two or three jazz...
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Questions
(Answers to a survey printed in the Jazz Messenger, 2012) 1. What aspects of a live Jazz performance make for a good or bad experience for you as a listener? Fuck performances, I wanna see a show, I...
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Tigran Hamasyan
Oh wow, I’d forgotten this one. It’s from 2008, only a few months before the Wall Street apocalypse that pretty much wiped out the old L.A. jazz scene. I’d written a longish review of a Tigran Hamasyan...
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