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Central Avenue Jazz Festival
by Char Ham
Any jazz fan is familiar of the influence of the Harlem Renaissance of the 20's, as it was a cultural center for intellectual thought, art, and music. That too, occurred in Central Avenue in Los Angeles, from the 20's to the 50's. The Central Avenue scene was created from laws restricting African-Americans where they could live ...
Central Avenue Sounds
by Char Ham
by Clora Bryant, William Green, Buddy Collette University of California Press (1998) ISBN 0520211898 Almost any jazz fan points as his or her mecca New York or historically, Kansas City and New Orleans. There is a fourth locus of jazz, Central Avenue section of Los Angeles which was a jazz mecca from ...
Olivia Revueltas Trio: Angel of Scissors
by Char Ham
Sophomore albums for artists can be both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that name recognition from the first album helps establish the artist, and is instrumental in propelling sales for that second effort. The curse is the challenge is working up to at least the level of the debut album. More difficult is ...
Olivia Revueltas: 'Round Midnight in L.A.
by Char Ham
Perhaps it is too easy to be complacent and live on the safe side, such as investing stocks and bonds in well established companies, and listening to elevator jazz for background music while working on the computer at the office. However, true jazz has an greater purpose -- to make the listener feel aural nourishment and ...
Dr. L. Subramaniam and Larry Coryell: From the Ashes
by Char Ham
For many of us Westerners, the introduction to Indian music was through sitarist Ravi Shankar whose work was promoted by the Beatles' George Harrison or John Coltrane's exploration of combining Indian music and jazz. The musical meeting of East and West is still largely unexplored territory but the Water Lily Acoustics label, run by Kavi Alexander, ...
Kadri Gopalnath/James Newton/P. Srinivasan: Southern Brothers
by Char Ham
In a fastly widening global prospective, we must remind ourselves that us humans have more in common than being divided by differences in culture, race or ethnicity. “Southern Brothers" well emplifies this, first with its title, referring to Southern India, where Gopalnath and Srinivasan are from, and for Newton, where he spent his summers with his ...
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