Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
90077. Country. United States. Website. www .vibratogrilljazz .com. Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill & Jazz is a jazz club and restaurant on Beverly Glen Circle in Bel Air, Los Angeles, to the south of Mulholland Drive. It was established by Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert. [1] Ariana Savalas is a regular performer at the club.
The Blue Whale was a jazz club located on the top floor of Weller Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. [1] The club was opened in 2009 by jazz vocalist Joon Lee [1] [2] and regularly featured regional and internationally acclaimed jazz artists. [3] It was announced on December 31, 2020 that the club has been permanently closed.
KKJZ (88.1 MHz FM, "KJazz 88.1") is a non-commercial public radio station in Southern California.The station is the #1 full-time jazz and blues station in the country.. The California State University, Long Beach Research Foundation owns the non-commercial broadcast license for KKJZ; as a public radio station, it is funded by contributions from listener-members and other donors.
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 ...
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 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 ...
JazzReggae Festival @ UCLA is a two-day festival for music, art, culture and diversity, held every Memorial Day Weekend on the UCLA Intramural Field. By featuring artists such as Jill Scott, Buju Banton, The Roots, Beenie Man, and Stephen Marley, as well as unique opportunities to experience new ethnic foods, crafts and cultures, the event has been highly acclaimed by the press, artists, and ...