Editor’s Note: The fire at the University Club on June 8 and the subsequent closure of the Club, which is where this event was to take place, has forced the event’s cancelation.
In the ‘60’s a small community of creatives in Laurel Canyon created music that changed America and the world.
Highly-acclaimed film music supervisor Jeff Pollack will talk about that time and that place in a visit to the Pasadena Rotary Club on Wednesday, July 12 at noon at the University Club of Pasadena, 175 N. Oakland Ave. The meeting is open to the public (free by Zoom and $40 for lunch in-person with an RSVP only).
Pollack has worked on over 35 films. He earned five Academy Award nominations and won Best Original Song with the “Weary Kind” from ‘Crazy Heart’. In 2015, he was a producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO Frank Sinatra film ‘All or Nothing at All’. He also served as an associate producer on the Glen Campbell film “I’ll Be Me”, which featured the Grammy- and Oscar-winning song, “I’m Not Going to Miss You”.
Jeff Pollack
His work on the Netflix documentaries “Satan and Adam” and “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time” garnered nominations for the Emmy and Producer’s Guild Awards.
Pollack’s Wednesday talk in Pasadena will center on the music and culture in the famed Hollywood Hills’ Laurel Canyon area, where many legendary artists inhabited and gathered beginning in the late 1960s.
The Canyon became the haunt and home to some of the biggest performers of that time: Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, JD Souther, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Frank Zappa, The Byrds, Love, The Turtles, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, The Eagles, Neil Young, Alice Cooper, Linda Ronstadt, and Gram Parsons.
The Laurel Canyon documentary provides an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who lived and worked in Laurel Canyon, and the impact they had on the music industry.
Members of the public should RSVP to office@pasadenarotary.com or watch by Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86515101523?pwd=dHhNZnV5c2ZqbzNQbWthbDNhYTladz09
The meeting ID is 865 1510 1523. The passcode: 667356
