[ORIENTATION]: Jazz professors call on experience

Those who can’t do, teach. It’s an adage students throw at their teachers in educational institutions throughout the country. But in UCLA’s jazz department, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Charley Harrison and Bobby Rodriguez are the respective leaders of the Jazz Orchestra and Latin Jazz Ensemble at UCLA, but they’re also professional musicians. […]

Schooling the pros

For liberal arts majors, their academic experiences can separate a hobby from a profession. Marci K and Lesa Terry, who have both studied ethnomusicolgy at UCLA, are getting the most out of their Bruin beginnings. 24-year-old K (a stage name short for Katznelson) is finishing production on her second album of pop songs, due out […]

No stopping hem

After seven different releases of its debut album, you’d think orchestral country-folk group Hem would have given up on music. But the band hasn’t, and a few false starts only paved the way for its current prolificacy. Hem will be performing tonight at the Knitting Factory, wrapping up promotion of its third full-length album, “No […]

Soundbites: Rose Melbergm ““ “Cast Away the Clouds”

Once a guitarist, singer/songwriter and occasional drummer for indie-pop bands The Softies and Tiger Trap, Rose Melberg uses her second solo album to branch off in a different direction with a lush and humble sound that is all her own. The production is similar to a lot of current singer/songwriters: a prominent acoustic guitar center […]