Phenom Flavors
By Kirk Silsbee
Cuban trumpet phenom Arturo Sandoval will turn Catalina’s into the Tropicana, Thursday through Sunday. If you caught Janis Mann recently at Betty Hoover’s A Frame salon, you heard a perfect melding of inspired in-the-moment vocals with a great rhythm section. With Mann, no matter how daring the phrasing or use of dynamics, she never neglects the song’s story. She’s at the Crowne LAX on Thursday. That encyclopedic custodian of mainstream piano, Cedar Walton, continues at the Jazz Bakery with his fine band, through Friday. Another pianist with many musical worlds under his fingers, Bill Cunliffe, plays for socializers Friday at LACMA, and listeners at the Bakery, Monday. At the Museum of Neon Art (136 W. Fourth St., downtown L.A., 213-489-9918; at 8 p.m.; $10), violinist Jeff Gauthier and keyboardist Dave Witham light up the joint Friday with incandescent duets. The Jazz Bakery hosts its annual summer fundraiser Saturday with singers Ernie Andrews and Sue Raney and pianist Alan Broadbent among the performers. Help maintain our best listening room, enjoy the sounds, and write it off. Trumpeter Carl Saunders, another formidable modern trumpeter, leads a quartet at Charlie O’s Saturday. The New York bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding hits Catalina’s Tuesday. Her ambitious new CD, Esperanza (Heads Up), is a portrait of a young artist who likes many flavors of jazz and pop on her plate. The same night, Rebirth Brass Band, standard-bearer for New Orleans parade outfits, turns the Mint into a roaring second-line. Prepare to move and be moved.
Published: 06/04/2008
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