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49 relations: Alameda Corridor, Anthony Ortega (musician), Art Pepper, Benny Carter, Big Jay McNeely, Big Joe Turner, Buddy Collette, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California, Central Avenue Jazz Festival, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chico Hamilton, Civic Center, Los Angeles, Compton, California, Dave Alvin, Dexter Gordon, Downtown Los Angeles, Dunbar Hotel, Eric Dolphy, Florence-Graham, California, Gerald Wilson, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building (1928), Hampton Hawes, Historic district, Jack McVea, Japanese American National Museum, Jazz, Johnny Otis, Lincoln Theater (Los Angeles), Lionel Hampton, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Metro Local, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Nat King Cole, National Register of Historic Places, Onzy Matthews, Pete Johnson, Rhythm and blues, Savoy Records, Shifty Henry, South Los Angeles, Streamline Moderne, Teddy Wilson, Watts, California, Willowbrook, California, Wynton Marsalis, 52nd Street (Manhattan).
Alameda Corridor
The Alameda Corridor is a freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority that connects the national rail system near downtown Los Angeles, California, to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, running parallel to Alameda Street.
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Anthony Ortega (musician)
Anthony Robert "Tony" Ortega (born June 7, 1928, Los Angeles) is an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist.
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Art Pepper
Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
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Big Jay McNeely
Cecil James McNeely (born April 29, 1927, Watts, Los Angeles, California), known as Big Jay McNeely, is an American rhythm and blues saxophonist.
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Big Joe Turner
Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.
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Buddy Collette
William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American jazz flautist, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
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California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, Dominguez Hills (also known as CSUDH, Dominguez Hills, or Cal State Dominguez Hills) is a public university within the 23-school California State University (CSU) system.
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Carson, California
Carson is a city in Los Angeles County, California.
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Central Avenue Jazz Festival
The Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly annual free jazz festival that takes place the last weekend in the month of July in the Southern section of Los Angeles.
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Chico Hamilton
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
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Civic Center, Los Angeles
The Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles and a complex of city, county, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
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Compton, California
Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.
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Dave Alvin
David Albert Alvin (born November 11, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, music producer and poet.
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Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people.
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Dunbar Hotel
The Dunbar Hotel, originally known as the Hotel Somerville, was the focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in Los Angeles, California, during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist.
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Florence-Graham, California
Florence-Graham (locally known as Florence-Firestone) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Gerald Wilson
Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014)Don Heckman,, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2014.
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Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building (1928)
The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building was built in 1928 and for many years housed one of Los Angeles's most successful African American-owned businesses, the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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Hampton Hawes
Hampton Barnett Hawes, Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American jazz pianist.
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Historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons.
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Jack McVea
John Vivian "Jack" McVea (November 5, 1914 – December 27, 2000) was an African American swing, blues, and rhythm and blues woodwind player and bandleader.
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Japanese American National Museum
The is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario.
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Lincoln Theater (Los Angeles)
The Lincoln Theater is a historic theater in South Los Angeles, California.
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.
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Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Metro Local
Metro Local is a bus system in Los Angeles County operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro).
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California.
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Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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Onzy Matthews
Onzy Durrett Matthews, Jr. (January 15, 1930 – November 13, 1997) was an American jazz pianist, singer, arranger and composer as well as a television and movie actor.
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Savoy Records
Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.
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Shifty Henry
John Willie "Shifty" Henry (4 October 1921 – 30 November 1958) was an American musician, most noted as a double bass and bass guitar player, and blues songwriter.
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South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles is a region in southern Los Angeles County, California lying to south of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne, sometimes termed Art Moderne, is a late type of the Art Deco architecture and graphic design/style that emerged in the 1930s.
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Teddy Wilson
Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist.
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Watts, California
Watts, California, was a city of the sixth class that existed in Los Angeles County, California, between 1907 and 1926, when it was consolidated with the City of Los Angeles and became one of the neighborhoods in the southern part of that city.
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Willowbrook, California
Willowbrook, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California.
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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52nd Street (Manhattan)
52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Avenue_(Los_Angeles)
