Fri, Oct 2
Jazz at LACMA
Free things in this city are usually free for a reason. This one has been running for thirty-five years, which is longer than most of the paid things, and it still costs nothing.
Every Friday evening from spring through October, an actual working jazz ensemble plays outdoors on the plaza at the county art museum, and the crowd is the most genuinely mixed gathering in Los Angeles — museum members who came for the galleries, families with folding chairs, couples on a cheap date, older Angelenos who have been coming since the eighties and have opinions about the booking. People bring picnics. Nobody checks a ticket because there are no tickets.
The musicians are not filler. The series has hosted the city's serious players for three decades, and the sound of a horn section carrying across an open plaza while the light goes orange over Wilshire is the specific thing you cannot get from a recording.
Seating is first-come and limited, so the people who know arrive around five with a blanket. Music runs six to eight on Friday evenings.
Free things in this city are usually free for a reason. This one has been running for thirty-five years, which is longer than most of the paid things, and it still costs nothing.
Every Friday evening from spring through October, an actual working jazz ensemble plays outdoors on the plaza at the county art museum, and the crowd is the most genuinely mixed gathering in Los Angeles — museum members who came for the galleries, families with folding chairs, couples on a cheap date, older Angelenos who have been coming since the eighties and have opinions about the booking. People bring picnics. Nobody checks a ticket because there are no tickets.
The musicians are not filler. The series has hosted the city's serious players for three decades, and the sound of a horn section carrying across an open plaza while the light goes orange over Wilshire is the specific thing you cannot get from a recording.
Seating is first-come and limited, so the people who know arrive around five with a blanket. Music runs six to eight on Friday evenings.
Every Friday evening from spring through October, an actual working jazz ensemble plays outdoors on the plaza at the county art museum, and the crowd is the most genuinely mixed gathering in Los Angeles — museum members who came for the galleries, families with folding chairs, couples on a cheap date, older Angelenos who have been coming since the eighties and have opinions about the booking. People bring picnics. Nobody checks a ticket because there are no tickets.
The musicians are not filler. The series has hosted the city's serious players for three decades, and the sound of a horn section carrying across an open plaza while the light goes orange over Wilshire is the specific thing you cannot get from a recording.
Seating is first-come and limited, so the people who know arrive around five with a blanket. Music runs six to eight on Friday evenings.
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Free things in this city are usually free for a reason. This one has been running for thirty-five years, which is longer than most of the paid things, and it still costs nothing.
Every Friday evening from spring through October, an actual working jazz ensemble plays outdoors on the plaza at the county art museum, and the crowd is the most genuinely mixed gathering in Los Angeles — museum members who came for the galleries, families with folding chairs, couples on a cheap date, older Angelenos who have been coming since the eighties and have opinions about the booking. People bring picnics. Nobody checks a ticket because there are no tickets.
The musicians are not filler. The series has hosted the city's serious players for three decades, and the sound of a horn section carrying across an open plaza while the light goes orange over Wilshire is the specific thing you cannot get from a recording.
Seating is first-come and limited, so the people who know arrive around five with a blanket. Music runs six to eight on Friday evenings.
Every Friday evening from spring through October, an actual working jazz ensemble plays outdoors on the plaza at the county art museum, and the crowd is the most genuinely mixed gathering in Los Angeles — museum members who came for the galleries, families with folding chairs, couples on a cheap date, older Angelenos who have been coming since the eighties and have opinions about the booking. People bring picnics. Nobody checks a ticket because there are no tickets.
The musicians are not filler. The series has hosted the city's serious players for three decades, and the sound of a horn section carrying across an open plaza while the light goes orange over Wilshire is the specific thing you cannot get from a recording.
Seating is first-come and limited, so the people who know arrive around five with a blanket. Music runs six to eight on Friday evenings.
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