9781467131308-146713130X-Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz (Images of America)

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

ISBN-13: 9781467131308
ISBN-10: 146713130X
Author: Sean J OConnell
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback 128 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781467131308
ISBN-10: 146713130X
Author: Sean J OConnell
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback 128 pages

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Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz (Images of America) (ISBN-13: 9781467131308 and ISBN-10: 146713130X), written by authors Sean J OConnell, was published by Arcadia Publishing in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Travel (Photography & Video, Black & African American, Cultural & Regional, United States, Historical, Culinary Biographies, Cooking Education & Reference, State & Local, United States History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz (Images of America) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Travel books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.46.

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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 talents like 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.

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