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Founded in 1959 by Hugh Hefner as the Playboy Jazz Festival, it was held in Chicago but did not recur until 1979, when the venue was moved to the Hollywood Bowl. In 2022, the festival changed its name. It was held June 25 and 26 that year and hosted by comedian Arsenio Hall. The event is organized by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ...
Currently, the event is sustainable thanks to the work of Patricia Zárate de Pérez, Executive Director of the festival who leads a team of 70 coordinators, 500 volunteers, 300 national and international musicians, and about 200 collaborators from all sectors of Panama. , adding more than 1,000 people who work hard to carry out the event. Pori ...
February 4 – The 2024 Grammy awards occur. A new category, "Best Alternative Jazz Album" is added. The first winner is Meshell Ndegeocello for her 2023 album The Omnichord Real Book [2] "Best Jazz Instrumental Album" is awarded to Billy Childs for his 2023 album The Winds of Change[3] "Best Latin Jazz Album" is awarded to Miguel Zenón and ...
The Cavalcade of Jazz events were large outdoor jazz festivals held annually between 1945 and 1958 in Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, California, U.S. They were the first such large-scale events and were produced by an African American, Leon Hefflin, Sr. Hefflin was an entrepreneur who had started promoting dances and concerts for Black residents ...
The Crescendo was owned and operated by Gene Norman (né Eugene Abraham Nabatoff; 1922–2015) of GNP Crescendo Records who had purchased the property in 1954 from singer Billy Eckstine who had run the venue as the Chanticlair. The Chanticlair, Crescendo, and Interlude welcomed integrated audiences. Norman sold the Crescendo in 1963 to focus on ...
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre and public park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States. [1] It was named one of the 10 best live music venues in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine in 2018. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
John Pisano was born in Staten Island, New York, on February 6, 1931. Pisano worked with Herb Alpert, Billy Bean, Chico Hamilton, Peggy Lee, and Joe Pass. [1] He died in Los Angeles on May 2, 2024, at the age of 93. [2][3]
Catalina Bar & Grill, popularly referred to as Catalina Jazz Club, is a prominent jazz club and restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States, located to the east of Hollywood High School and to the west of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. It regularly hosts live music and according to Los Angeles Magazine hosts ...