Jazz Bakery’s Moveable Feast
May 11, 2018
3 minutes
By Leslie A. Westbrook
The 1950s produced cool jazz, sleek furniture lines and abstract art. Clubs reeked with pot and tobacco smoke, while hipsters drinking cheap red wine snapped their fingers to jazz in appreciation of Beat poetry amid intellectual banter to the strains of Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker’s horns as a backdrop. While Bill Evans, Art Blakey and Dave Brubeck held down the East Coast with bebop, Los Angeles was swinging with a softer sound at the Lighthouse, Shelly’s Manne Hole and, in the 1960s, Donte’s.
Even when jazz was wiped off the radar
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