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Angel City Jazz Festival
John Anson Ford Theatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Rocco Somaczi - Executive Director
roccosomazzi@gmail.com
Jeff Gauthier - General Manager
jeff@cryptogramophone.com
Don Lucoff - DL Media - PR, Publicity
don@jazzpublicity.com
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Angel City Jazz Festival - Labor Day Weekend, September 6th and 7th, 2009 4:00 - 11:00 PM
Schedule:
Sunday, September 6th 4PM - 11PM
4:00 PM Plays Monk (Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott Amendola)
5:15 PM The Satoko Fujii Quartet
6:30 PM Jesse Sharps' The Gathering with Dwight Trible
intermission
8:00 PM The Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble
9:15 PM Larry Karush - solo piano
9:50 PM Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy
Monday, September 7th 4PM - 11PM
4:00 PM Alex Cline's Band of the Moment
5:15 PM The Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet
6:30 PM The Nels Cline Singers with Jeff Parker
intermission
8:00 PM The Larry Goldings Organ Trio
9:15 PM Motoko Honda & Oguri
9:50 PM Bennie Maupin and Dolphyana
The Angel City Jazz Festival is a two-day outdoor event featuring innovative and original jazz musicians from the west coast and around the world. The 2009 festival presents established jazz artists as well as lesser known emerging talent, with a focus on west coast creative jazz, past, present and future.
Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, the 1200-seat John Anson Ford Amphitheater is one of the oldest performing arts venues in Los Angeles, with a rich history of west coast jazz. The open-air theater sits atop a 45-acre park-like setting in the beautiful Hollywood Hills. The Ford Theater was originally known as the Pilgrimage Theater, and in the 1960s and 70s the "Jazz at the Pilgrimage" series was a destination for many west coast "cool" jazz artists like Chico Hamilton, Oscar Brashear, Buddy Collette, Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, and Don Ellis. The Angel City Jazz Festival resurrects this historic venue as a nexus for west coast creative jazz.
The Angel City Jazz Festival was founded in 2007 by Rocco Somazzi, and was originally held at Barnsdahl Art Park in Hollywood.
The festival can receive tax deductable donations through the auspices of NewTown Pasadena Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.
John Anson Ford Theatre is located at:
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Phone: 212-576-2232
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