Month: August 2007

Saxophone Virtuoso Ernie Watts Comes to SOhO
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Saxophone Virtuoso Ernie Watts Comes to SOhO

The rapturous response for Charlie Haden’s Quartet West at the Lobero Theatre last November was in no small part due to the playing of saxophonist Ernie Watts. Since joining the Quartet West when it formed in 1987, Watts has made it clear that he belongs in the elite category of major jazz saxophonists alongside big names like Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins. He carves up the changes and rides the rhythm section with the best of them, bringing a soulful, bluesy tinge to the full range of post-bop, post-Coltrane sax techniques.

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This Week in History

August 16, 1977

The king of rock ‘n’ roll, Elvis Presley, dies at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42.

A New Print of Chaplin’s City Lights Comes to Campbell Hall
Film & TV By D.J. Palladino

A New Print of Chaplin’s City Lights Comes to Campbell Hall

It was 1931, and a great year for the monsters. James Whale’s Frankenstein was number one at the box office, but Tod Browning’s Dracula and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde didn’t do so badly, either. Street-smart monsters flourished too: James Cagney was The Public Enemy, Edward G. Robinson became Little Caesar, and Peter Lorre sailed into criminal immortality in M.

The Pretenders, with the Stray Cats.
Arts & Entertainment By Darian Bleecher

The Pretenders, with the Stray Cats.

An eagerly anticipated double bill of rockabilly revivalists the Stray Cats and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Pretenders proved to be an endearing and enduring mix, trotting out hits from the common intersection of their MTV beginnings to the delight of the sold-out tattoo-and-comb-over crowd at the Bowl.

Film & TV By Indy Staff

Burning Man Flick

S.B. Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery will be screening the documentary Journey to the Flames: 8 Years of Burning Man on Thursday, August 16, at 7 p.m. The film follows a group of friends who trek to the festival and features eight years’ worth of footage. Admission is free, but donations are accepted.

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Stow House Free Concert Series

For the remainder of August, the lovely folks at the Goleta Valley Historical Society present Music at the Ranch every Tuesday. This free and family-friendly weekly concert series invites an eclectic collection of bands from around town to take the stage at one of the oldest and most picturesque landmarks in the Goleta Valley. On Tuesday, August 21, the kid-tested, parent-approved sounds of Hot Lava will rock the crowd.

Tuesdays at 8
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Tuesdays at 8

The Music Academy of the West loves its alumni, and that love was amply requited last Tuesday as one of its most distinguished alums, clarinetist David Shifrin, appeared in all four pieces on a program that could have easily been titled “con amore”-with love.

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