John Handy

Last week at Walt Disney Concert Hall, variously defined beats converged with and confused each other when the L.A. Philharmonic's game-facing West Coast, Left Coast festival paid respect to jazz, sort of, in Night of the Beats. Read More

Singer Kurt Elling brought a much-needed musical and theatrical presence to the L.A. Philharmonic's tip of the beret to the 1950s poets who created an artistic base in San Francisco. Read More

"Men working on the river would move in time to the beat of the music. It was everywhere: on the street, in the church. In the tonks and barrelhouses where people went to be together. Like the beating of a big heart. It gave everyone a good feeling." Read More