Rickie Lee Jones: ‘West Side’ to the East Side

Rickie Lee Jones capped off her February residency at the Echoplex last night with a 2-hour-and-15-minute show that covered just about all the bases of her quirky 30-year career. But that still wasn’t enough for the folk-jazzbo poet. Making good on her musings to our own Richard Cromelin before the start of her four-show series – when she’d said she wanted to do "something different every night," including " ‘West Side Story,’ some or all of it" – Jones has added a show next Monday, in which she’ll take on the musical, with help from violinist-vocalist Petra Haden, bassist Rob Wasserman (who was part of her supporting cast Monday) and others. Tickets on sale now.

--Frank Farrar

Photo of Jones at Echoplex last night by Stefano Paltera/For The Times.