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Article: CENTRAL AVENUE SOUNDS: JAZZ IN LOS ANGELES.(Review)
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- The Oral History Review
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- June 22, 2000
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CENTRAL AVENUE SOUNDS: JAZZ IN LOS ANGELES. Edited by Clora Bryant, Buddy Collette, William Green, Steven Isoardi, Jack Kelson, Horace Tapscott, Gerald Wilson, and Marl Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 442 pp. Hardbound $34.95.
In Central Avenue Sounds jazz musician Jack Kelson summed up his memories of prewar Los Angeles' Central Avenue.
Glamorous. You were only aware of it, the intensity of it, by viewing it
at this distance, because it was simply there, and you had nothing to
compare it with because it was just there. You know, some parents, in a
sense, felt like they didn't want their children on Central Avenue, ...