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Hampton was a featured artist at numerous Cavalcade of Jazz concerts held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. [19] His first performance was at the second Cavalcade of Jazz concert held on October 12, 1946, and also featured Jack McVea, Slim Gaillard, T-Bone Walker, the Honeydrippers and Louis Armstrong.
The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, officially nicknamed The Ford, is a music venue in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. The 1,200-seat outdoor amphitheatre is situated within the Cahuenga Pass within the Santa Monica Mountains, directly across the U.S. 101 freeway from and the official sister venue of the Hollywood Bowl.
In 2014, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, which presents the summer Hollywood Bowl concerts, assumed presenting and booking duties. [6] The Festival is broadcast live by the Southern California jazz public radio station KKJZ. In 2020, the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] [8]
Bobby McFerrin. Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. (born March 11, 1950) [1] is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and conductor. His vocal techniques include singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch —for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing ...
Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival in Kansas City [citation needed] Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia [72] Nebraska. Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival in Omaha. Nevada. Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz Festival in Las Vegas [73] Reno Jazz Festival in Reno [citation needed] New Jersey.
Skirball Cultural Center. The Skirball Cultural Center, founded in 1996, is a Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, California.The center, named after philanthropist couple Jack H. Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, has a museum with regularly changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary, and cultural programs.
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 . Central Avenue, after which the area is named, was in the 1930s and 1940s a vibrant center for jazz. At this time the infamous covenant line along Washington Boulevard demarcated ...
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 ...