PLAYLIST FOR WEDNESDAY MARCH 7, 2012
11:00AM – 1:00 PM
WITH YATRIKA SHAH-RAIS
WITH GUEST BELA FLECK
E-MAIL: yatrikashahrais@gmail.com
Time - Artist (country) - Album - Track – Label
11:00 am S.J. Pettersson (Sweden) – Romeo & Juliet – Prologue-Star Cross’d Lovers – www.sjpettersson.com
11:08 am Maksim Velichkin – Piano Improvisations – III – www.maksimvelichkin.com
11:11 am Floratone II (US) – Floratone II – The Time, The Place – www.savoyjazz.com
11:13 am Mônica Passos (Brazil) – Banzo – Banzo – Arion
11:17 am Grégoire Maret (Switzerland) – Grégoire Maret – Crepuscule Suite: PM Intro; Crepuscule; AM Outro – eOne
11:33 am Mamak Khadem (Iran) – A Window To Color – Shakpooy Parts 1 & 2 – www.mamak-khadem.com
11:45 am Mamak Khadem (Iran) – Jostojoo – Jostojoo – www.mamak-khadem.com
In a performance created specially for International Women’s Day, Mamak Khadem leads a special ensemble of women artists from Iran, Greece, Bulgaria, and beyond, including Tzvetanka Varimezova (vocals), Sahba Motallebi (tar), Sofia Labropoulou (kanun), Polly Tapia Ferber (percussion), and Iranian American poet Sholeh Wolpe.Thursday March 8, 8 PM, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA 90049 www.skirball.org
11:50 am Esperanza Spalding (US) – Radio Music Society – Vague Suspicions – Heads Up
11:58 am Egberto Gismonti (Brazil) – Saudações – Carmen – ECM
12:06 pm Anoushka Shankar (US/India) – Traveller – Boy Meets Girl – Decca
12:16 pm Anoushka Shankar (US/India) – Traveller – Casi Uno - Decca
Anoushka Shankar explores the nuances of modern flamenco through the vivid lens of Hindustani technique SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012 AT 8PM, LUCKMAN FINE ARTS COMPLEX, Cal State University. Info: www.luckmanarts.org
12:19 pm Chano Dominguez Septet (Spain) – Oyé Come Viene – Tangos de Garraf – Lola! Records
Pianist Chano Dominguez performs his new CD Flamenco Sketches, feat. Omer Avital on bass, Blas Cordoba on vocals and Percussion and Dafnis Prieto on drums on Sat. March 31, at 8 PM at the Colburn School of Music, Zipper Hall. 200 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles 90012. Information and tickets: www.jazzbakery.org
12:25 pm Kayhan Kalhor, Ali Bahrami Fard (Iran) – I Will Not Stand Alone – I Will Not Stand Alone - World Village
12:31 pm Emel Mathlouthi (Tunisia) – Kelmitt Hora – Ma lkit (not Found) – World Village
12:35 pm Kalaban Coura (US, Mali, Morrocco)- - Aigabani – Aibara Aiga – Agua Music www.kalabancoura.com
12:39 pm Sierra Maestra (Cuba) – Sonando Ya – Juan Andrés – World Village
Cuban son ensemble Sierra Maestra perform on April 5 at 8 PM at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA 90049 www.skirball.org
12:46 pm Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (US) – Rocket Science – Gravity Lane – eOne
12:45 pm INTERVIEW - BELA FLECK
12:45 Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (US) – Rocket Science – Gravity Lane – eOne
12:56 Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (US) – Rocket Science – Life in Eleven – eOne
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones perform on Friday, March 9 at 8 PM at the Orpheum Theatre, 842 South Broadway, LA 90014. Information: 877-677-4386 www.laorpheum.com
EVENTS
Film Independent at LACMA: Spotlight on Wim Wenders
Two films from the Oscar-nominated director of the 3D dance documentary Pina will be screened.
7:30 pm The American Friend
In Wenders' version of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, all of the hoods floating around terminally-ill picture framer Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) are played by directors in a seductive world where crime and art intertwine.
9:45 pm Chambre 666
In this 1982 documentary, Wenders esconced himself in room 666 at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes and conducted interviews with a series of directors from Jean-Luc Godard to Steven Spielberg, Monte Hellman to Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
WHEN: Thursday, March 8
WHERE: Bing Theater at LACMA
