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The historic Mission Revival style Exposition Club House, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.. A total of 31,062 residents counted in its 1.85 square miles, which is including the park land as well as Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum according to the 2000 U.S. census—an average of 16,819 people per square mile among the highest population densities for both the city and the county.
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938. First issued in 1950, the landmark recording captured the premiere performance given by a big band in the famed concert venue. The event has ...
Adjacent to the Auditorium is the Shrine Exposition Hall. This is a multi-purpose event facility. It features 54,000 square feet (5,000 m 2 ) of exhibit and meeting space—34,000 in the main level and 20,000 in an open mezzanine.
Downtown Los Angeles 1,500 Unknown Glendale Performing Arts Center Glendale 1,559 1927: The Theatre at Ace Hotel: South Park 1,600 March 1968 Oxnard Performing Arts Center Oxnard: 1,608 1998 City National Grove of Anaheim: Anaheim: 1,700 1990: Mayan Theater: South Park 1,700 1994 Fred Kavli Theatre: Thousand Oaks 1,800 1929: Royce Hall ...
Exposition Park is a 160-acre urban park (65 ha) in the south region of Los Angeles, California, [1] in the Exposition Park neighborhood. Bounded by Exposition Boulevard to the north, South Figueroa Street to the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the south and Vermont Avenue to the west, it is directly south of the main campus of the ...
From Spirituals to Swing was the title of two concerts presented by John Hammond in Carnegie Hall on 23 December 1938 and 24 December 1939. The concerts included performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's Christian Singers, the Golden Gate Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Terry.
His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." [1] Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians.
4 – Mark Levine, American jazz pianist, trombonist, and composer (died 2022). 15 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, saxophonist, and composer (died 1997). 22 – Harrison Ridley Jr., American jazz presenter (died 2009). 24 – Odean Pope, American tenor saxophonist. 26 – John "Jabo" Starks, American drummer (died 2018). November