Herbie Hancock named L.A. Phil jazzmeister

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Maybe we should call this one a Monster Hiss:

The Los Angeles Philharmonic officially announced this summer’s Hollywood Bowl schedule today, but a few weeks ago, Culture Monster jumped the gun by providing details. Don’t hiss at the Monster -- the information was already up on the Phil’s website, and more than 10,000 Bowl subscribers had already received the schedule in the mail.

Now, on The Times’ pop music blog Pop & Hiss, Chris Barton is jazzing up the news with the announcement that Herbie Hancock has been named the L.A. Philharmonic Assn.’s new creative chair for jazz, succeeding bassist Christian McBride. And Barton’s got details on more pop artists coming to the Bowl in his blog post blog post here.

-- Diane Haithman