
From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles’s 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 ...
Series: Images of America
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (May 26, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781467131308
ISBN-13: 978-1467131308
ASIN: 146713130X
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1325639
Format: PDF ePub Text djvu book
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This is a nice compliment to the Central Avenue Sounds book. It's pictures are related to the LA Jazz scene. So now you can fit Faces to Names. I'm not a Jazz affectionado but it's good to see LA history. Good book....
e Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Buddy Collette while also hosting countless touring jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday. Twenty-four hours a day, the sound of live jazz wafted out of nightclubs, restaurants, hotel lobbies, music schools, and anywhere else a jazz combo could squeeze in its instruments for nearly 50 years, helping to advance and define the sound of America’s greatest musical contribution.