THEATER ARTISTS AMY BRENNEMAN • Staying on top: After our ‘Top Girls’ interview, a return for ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ • READ MARSHA MASON • In 2007, prior to her recording of Charles Busch’s ‘The Allergist’s Wife’ for LA TheaterWorks, the four-time Oscar-nominee talked about her film and stage work. • READ AARON POSNER • After …
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Kenny Barron or two months in Spring 2010, four headliners from the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival are touring the U.S., supported by one headliner’s rhythm section. Before the tour began, Cristofer Gross conducted two interviews with two of the musicians – vocalist
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Dianne Reeves Chatting with the jazz vocalist before her concert with Gregory Porter. n 2016, Dianne Reeves was the veteran and Gregory Porter the up-and-coming artist on a bill at the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa, California. Several months before the concert – which was …
REEVES AND PORTER SATISFY Dianne Reeves and Gregory Porter share the bill in Costa Mesa by CRISTOFER GROSS he Orange County big-venue jazz year got off to an encouraging start January 16, with Dianne Reeves and Gregory Porter each performing solid hour-plus sets at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The audience, more age- and …
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Jane Monheit Playing favorites with the sultry jazz vocalist. Vocalist Jane Monheit was at her home outside New York City when we reached her for background on an article to promote her October 2012 concert at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. She would share the bill with guitarist-singer …
