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Critics' Previews Ann Powers Times Pop Music Critic

UCLA Jazz/Reggae Festival This annual student-run festival is divided into Jam Day -- headlined this year by the Roots -- and Reggae Day, with a Marley in the house (Stephen, specifically); other acts include Amos Lee, Capleton and John Densmore's Tribal Jazz. Sun.-Mon, UCLA, Intramural Field, Westwood, (310) 825-4401

Hall & Oates Two reasons you still love the rock-soul brothers: You can't not clap your hands along to the chorus of "Private Eyes," and you still get goose bumps when Daryl sings "it's you and me . . . forever" in "Sara Smile." Today-Fri. at the Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 8 p.m. $200., (310) 276-6168.

Foxboro Hot Tubs This is Green Day pretending to be an excellent Bay Area pop-punk garage band. Oh wait, that's what they already were! Whatever works, boys. The Roxy; 9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, Tue., 310-276-2222 ; Wed. at Alex's Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 434-8292.

Mark Swed Times Music Critic

Jacaranda The impressive young chamber music series has been in Messiaen mode all season, in celebration of the composer's 100th birthday in December. A chamber ensemble, chorus and soloists, conducted by Grant Gershon, looks at Messiaen's circle that extended from Paul Dukas and Debussy to Pierre Boulez. The birthday boy is brightly lit up in his spectacular "Colors of the Celestial City." Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave. L.A., Sat., 8 p.m. (310) 451-1303.

Terry Riley The protean composer of "In C," the father of Minimalism, a keyboard player of epic skill and an improviser of uncommon inspiration, takes on the Disney Hall organ in a two-part, four-hour (or perhaps longer) concert that will include parts of earlier works and a major new piece. Anything can happen. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A., Sun., 7:30 p.m. (213) 850-2000.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen closes out his next-to-last season as music director with the local premiere of his brilliant Piano Concerto, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist. Also new will the first performance of Steven Stucky's orchestration of Stravinsky's raucous Russian folk cantata, "Les Noces." Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A., next Thu., 7 p.m., $40-$142. (213) 850-2000.

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