That will be followed by a previously booked night celebrating the birthday of the late Freddie Hubbard, which will feature Henry Franklin, John Beasley and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (the Blue Whale’s ticket charges still apply).
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12, the festival will present a free screening of the next-generation jazz documentary “Icons Among Us” at the Little Tokyo club the Blue Whale. But just as the sun was setting, festival emcee LeRoy Downs announced from the stage that Blanchard had also canceled his appearance (a festival representative later cited “circumstances beyond our control,” and said all pre-sold tickets would be refunded).Īs a result, instead of a show at Zipper Hall on Oct. With the event’s most buzzed-about act - the Robert Glasper Experiment - canceling its show due to a scheduling conflict, the festival rebounded fast by booking the Terence Blanchard Quintet in his place for Oct. Heading into its third and most conventionally “festival-like” concert on its six-night schedule, which offered a slate of four acts under clear skies at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, the festival still couldn’t escape the shadow of a run of bad luck with scheduling. Six years in, it’s reasonable to expect some growing pains from the Angel City Jazz Festival.
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