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It was the epicenter of the Los Angeles jazz scene in the 1940s and 1950s. The Dunbar is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . At 4261 Central Avenue is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #580, the 1928 Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building , original headquarters of one of the leading African-American owned insurance ...
Meanwhile, a thriving jazz scene had appeared along Los Angeles's Central Avenue, featuring Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Teddy Edwards, Charles Mingus, and Buddy Collette. Central Avenue's activity rivaled that of the earlier Kansas City jazz scene, but at the time it was little-known outside Los Angeles.
The acclaimed New York venue Blue Note Jazz Club is going to sweep through L.A.'s music scene in 2025. The Greenwich Village club — long regarded as one of New York's elite spaces for jazz ...
A group of jazz fans gather at a Mid-City venue earlier this fall for a Minaret Records show. Based in Los Angeles, the upstart label has attracted a community of people to its DIY shows.
The legendary Blue Note Jazz Club, which already has nine different locations around the world including its flagship downtown New York venue, will expand to Los Angeles in March. The new club ...
In 1930, the hotel was renamed the Dunbar, and it became the most prestigious hotel in LA's African-American community. In the early 1930s, a nightclub opened at the Dunbar, and it became the center of the Central Avenue jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940s.
A sign located outside of Jack's Basket Room at 3219 South Central Ave, Los Angeles CA 90011. Jack's Basket Room, also known as Jack's Chicken Basket, The Bird in the Basket, The Basket Room, and Jack's Chicken Shack, was a jazz club operated by former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson [1] and owned by Sam Jack Jackson. [2]
The West Coast Get Down is an American jazz collective formed in Los Angeles in 2006. Its members include saxophonist Kamasi Washington, bassists Miles Mosley and Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner, drummers Ronald Bruner Jr. and Tony Austin, pianists Cameron Graves and Brandon Coleman, trombonist Ryan Porter, and multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin.