Long Beach-Here we go again. Another jazz festival is upon us. Not just any jazz festival, this is the annual Long Beach Jazz Festival. This is by far the premier jazz festival of Southern California. This is the most anticipated festival of the year.
August 13th-15th was a busy weekend in Los Angeles. Think of all of the various events available to attend, such as the Watts Summer Festival, St. Andrews Place Jazz Festival, St. Elmo Village Festival, and of course the Olympic Games broadcast from Greece.
You can tell where the priorities were for the 35,000 plus jazz fans spread out on the beautiful grassy knoll of the Rainbow Lagoon. The Lagoon is a great setting for a jazz festival. It offers a relax atmosphere where thousands of people can come out and have fun with other like minded people. The cares of the workplace, and other concerns were put on the backburner, while everyone gathered with one goal in mind: relax and have a good time while enjoying the eclectic mix of music performed at the festival.
Friday evening, Karino Nuvo kicked off the festivities with a set of R&B, jazz, Latin jazz, and salsa. She will take a maternity leave from performing until her baby arrives. She performed
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