Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles

Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles

The musical and social history of Los Angeles's black community from the 1920s through the early 1950s comes to life in this exceptional oral history collection. Through the voices of musicians who performed on L.A.'s Central Avenue during those years, a vivid picture of the Avenue's place in American musical history emerges.

By day, Central Avenue was the economic and social center for black Angelenos. By night, it was a magnet for Southern Californians, black and white, who wanted to he

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Los Angeles’s Central Avenue Jazz (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

October 21, 2015 by Shawn Dady in Sunset Blvd. Studios Blog | Comments Off

Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeless rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown Los Angeles to the largely undeveloped city of Watts to the south, Central Avenue became the center of the West Coast jazz scene, nurturing homegrown talents like Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Buddy Collette while also hosting countless touring j

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Swingin’ on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles

July 21, 2015 by Shawn Dady in Sunset Blvd. Studios Blog | Comments Off

Swingin' on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles

The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin’ on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles, a new study of that vibrant jazz community, music historian and jazz journalist Peter Vacher traveled between Los Angeles and London over several years in order to track down key figures and intervi

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