Down on the beaches were The Lighthouse where you could catch Art Blakey or Betty Carter passing through, and over at Rumsey’s you could catch a set of Max Roach or Kenny Burrell, and at Pasquales up in Malibu you could catch James Newton w/his wind quintet -t koto. (To speak of the unresolved racial tensions rampant in Los Angeles is outside my abilities.) Los Angeles is spread out all over the place. What once was Eden is gone, and another kind of blues springs out of that. The other part of the jazz experience in Los Angeles is the melancholy. We made a deal with San Fernando to keep an eye on the subsurface seismic fault lines.īest to drive at night so you don’t have to see all the destruction of unrestrained urban sprawl. The Pacific Ocean breezes keep things cool.
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Everything else is transplanted, the pepper trees, the palms, eucalyptus, elms, jacaronda, mimosa, volkswagens, oranges, all surrounded by coastal mountains full of bears and cougars and bees and ponderosa. Only the oaks, sycamores, alders and cottonwoods are native. Barney Bigard was around as well as slap-tongue clarinetest Joe Darensbourg, and even Rosy McHargue! It was like walking through a dream to see these guys.Įverybody is from somewhere else. For instance, in Los Angeles old Ed Garland was still active, who played with Buddy Bolden in New Orleans and Joe Oliver in Chicago. The thing about the 70s was that the entire history of jazz was still alive. You’d have to turn the radio loud to drown out the 289 under the hood of your Ford but that wasn’t a problem there were plenty of interesting radio stations. In the 70s you’d hit the onramp and gun it up to 75 and be wherever you were going in 45 minutes.
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Driving the freeways late at night is part of the jazz experience in Los Angeles.