“Harlem of the West: Jazz, Bebop and Beatnik” currently on display at the California African American Museum until January 2010, celebrates San Francisco’s Fillmore District in the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s, “where Bebop Jazz cross-pollinated with the Beat Movement and avant garde film making to make a dynamic scene,” a press release states. Numerous photographs from the era, with celebrities such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and Billie Holiday, make up the exhibit, which also includes films by Harry Smith, who was an ethnomusicologist, archivist and beatnik during that time.
September 24, 2009 - Feb 28, 2010
California African American Museum (CAAM)
600 State Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90037
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