{"id":168,"date":"2005-09-29T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=168"},"modified":"2005-09-29T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T08:05:00","slug":"heading_south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/09\/heading_south\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, I leave for Los Angeles to take part in one of Ken Poston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Los Angeles Jazz Institute extravaganzas, which are packed with music, films about music, discussions of music and a good deal of laughter. This one is called <em>Jazz West Coast 3: Legends of the West<\/em>. It gets underway this morning and runs four days.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lajazzinstitute.org\/index.php?c=7\"target=\"_blank\">Go here for a schedule<\/a> and registration information.<br \/>\nThe festival, party\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor whatever it is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill  bring together major figures of Southern California jazz, including  Bud Shank, Herb Geller, Johnny Mandel, Chico Hamilton, Paul Horn, Chuck Flores, Buddy Collette, Dave Pell and Howard Rumsey. Among the highlights is an all-star tribute to Shank by  bands containing some of the above and Bobby Shew, Mike Wofford and Holly Hoffman, to name a few. I am also looking forward to a rare instance of Johnny Mandel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conducting a collection of his nonpareil compositions and arrangements for big band, among them pieces from the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/B00000I5EO\/qid=1127936152\/sr=1-3\/ref=sr_1_3?v=glance%26s=music\"><em>I Want To Live<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\nSunday morning I will preach about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksidepublications.com\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond<\/em><\/a>, and sign copies. Shank and Geller will join me to discuss their fellow alto saxophonist. Bud did an analysis of a Desmond solo for the book. Herb provided information about his and Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early adventures with Jack Fina and later ones in Hamburg.<br \/>\nIn addition to seventeen concerts, there will be panels on Charles Mingus, Shank, the fifties in Los Angeles jazz, Art Pepper, West Coast drummers and the history of Mode Records. Not only that, there will be screenings of five films, among them Ken Koenig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new documentary, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/motion\/jazz.html\">The Lighthouse<\/a><\/em>, and glimpses of <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/nowsthetime\/Personal5.html\">Laurie Pepper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work-in-progress<\/a> about Art Pepper. One of the things I like about Poston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s affairs is that events are sequential. Everyone can see and hear everything, not have to choose among several simultaneous concerts. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why these things run four days. What&#8217;s not on the program? Bill Holman&#8217;s band, but I guess you can&#8217;t have everything.<br \/>\nIf I get a minute to sit down at the laptop, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post an account or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, I leave for Los Angeles to take part in one of Ken Poston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Los Angeles Jazz Institute extravaganzas, which are packed with music, films about music, discussions of music and a good deal of laughter. This one is called Jazz West Coast 3: Legends of the West. 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