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14th Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival
July 25 & 26

Featured at the Festival will be several Honorees from our past Tributes, including:

Clora Bryant, Eric Reed, Bill Henderson, Jazz America (Buddy Collette), and Gerald Wilson and his Orchestra, plus much more.

Do not miss it! It is a great experience, always well attended and orderly.

If you inquire at 213-743-8738 you can find out about the secure parking and shuttle service that is usually available.

For more info click http://centralavejazz.com/

Vibe Summit XVI

The Summit honoring Joe Locatelli, a fixture in Las Vegas, was a wonderful, well attended event. Thank's to all of you who attended. We had several compliments about our volunteers so we would like to list them and give a BIG thanks to the following without whose help all of the LAJS events would never occur:

Lousie Bianca, Rosemary DeAlba, MaryAlice Birault, Terry Lloyd, Don & Rocky Bronsal, Flip Manne, Ray Blagot, Rivian Chaikin, Bernye Dixon, James Janisse, Joe Finn, Tracy Gore, Scott Ickes, Irish Kane, Elain Koonse, Joel Kroll, Bob Muenckler, Gilles & Gisele Mongeau, Becky Musa, Roy Plamer, Joyce Patton, Sara Raya, Carleen Sbordone, Steve Tarango, Marie Westphalen.

And last but not least a big hug to our event coordinator Yum Kane

1st Annual L.A. Jazz Treasure Award Honoring Snooky Young
Friday, September 11, 6 pm,
LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Bl., LA 90036, 323-857-6000

LACMA and the Los Angeles Jazz Society proudly present the inaugural L.A. Jazz Treasure Award to jazz trumpet legend Snooky Young. The evening features a special tribute band comprised of Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and Tonight Show band members.

Mr. Young recently turned 90 and is a recent NEA Jazz Master awardee. Young was lead trumpeter of the Jimmie Lunceford band from 1939 to 1942, and has played with Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. His longest engagement was with the Tonight Show Band from 1967 through 1992. Young is still playing and recording with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. BPGE | Free, no reservations.