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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 ...
Jazz tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips played at all the JATP concerts from 1946 to 1957. Norman Granz recorded many JATP concerts, and sold or leased (from 1945 to 1947) the recordings to Asch/Disc/Stinson Records (record producer Moses Asch 's labels). Later, from 1948 to 1953, Granz leased the Jazz at the Philharmonic recordings to Mercury ...
The Roxy. The Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip. Address. 9009 W Sunset Blvd. Location. West Hollywood, California 90069. Coordinates. 34°05′27″N 118°23′17″W / . 34.090765°N 118.388029°W.
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 ...
In October 1962, comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested on obscenity charges for using the word "schmuck" on stage; one of the arresting officers was Sherman Block, who would later become Los Angeles County Sheriff. Michael Nesmith sometimes worked as an M.C. at the club in the 1960s, before the formation of the music group the Monkees.
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. Larry Carlton recorded Last Nite ...
Donte's. Coordinates: 34.14742°N 118.36442°W. Art Pepper performing at the club in 1980. Donte's was a jazz club and diner and cocktail bar at 4269 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, to the north of Universal Studios. One of the West Coast 's best known jazz clubs in the 1970s and 1980s, it opened in 1966 and closed in 1988.
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