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Central Ave Saxophone Market celebrating Central's jazzy history in Los Angeles. Central Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in the central portion of the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. Located just to the west of the Alameda Corridor, it runs south from the eastern end of the Los Angeles Civic Center down to the east side of California State University, Dominguez Hills ...
Hefflin was an entrepreneur who had started promoting dances and concerts for Black residents of Los Angeles in the 1930s. The first Cavalcade of Jazz was held on September 23, 1945, and starred Count Basie, The Honey Drippers, Valaida Snow, Joe Turner, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and other artists. [1] Attendance was some 15,000. [2]
The Baked Potato is a prominent jazz club on Cahuenga Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, opened by Don Randi (father of bassist Leah Randi) in 1970. Randi formed his own group, Don Randi and Quest, as the house band. Over the years it has hosted many live recordings from jazz fusion artists.
The Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly annual free jazz festival that takes place the last weekend in the month of July in the Southern section of Los Angeles .
West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which consisted of a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music relied relatively more on composition and arrangement than on the individually improvised playing of other jazz ...
Pages in category "Jazz clubs in Los Angeles" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Vibrato is a jazz club and restaurant on Beverly Glen Circle in Bel Air, Los Angeles, to the south of Mulholland Drive. It was established by Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert. [1] Ariana Savalas is a regular performer at the club. [2][3]
Los Angeles' Circa: Queer Histories Festival will fill October, which is LGBTQ History Month, with a vivid panorama of events for its sophomore edition.