{"id":13271,"date":"2013-08-09T03:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T10:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2013-08-09T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:36:37","slug":"california-is-kickin-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-is-kickin-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"California, All That Jazz!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bbjz.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend jazz lovers will unite at the Long Beach Jazz Festival. It isn&#8217;t surprising that jazz is extremely popular in California, considering that West Coast jazz, which developed around Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s as a sub-genre of cool jazz, is still going strong. It is by no means the only style of jazz played at upcoming concerts, but you will likely hear at least one song or composition with West Coast jazz at its core during jazz festivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/california-jazz-festivals.html\"><strong>CALIFORNIA JAZZ FESTIVALS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Long Beach Jazz Festival <\/strong>August 9-11, 2013 longbeachjazzfestival.com<br \/>\nGladys Knight, Euge Groove, Stanley Clarke, more<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Jose Jazz Festival<\/strong> throughout August, sanjosejazz.org<br \/>\nDave Koz featured on Aug. 11, 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hollywood Jazz at the Bowl<\/strong> \u00a0through August &#8211; hollywoodbowl.com<br \/>\nNatalie Cole, Wayne Shorter, and more<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Francisco Jazz<\/strong> now through Fall 2013, sfjazz.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>BBJazz Festival<\/strong>\u00a0 in Huntington Beach, September bbjazz.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>56th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival<\/strong> September 20-23, 2013 &#8211; montereyjazzfestival.org<br \/>\nWayne Shorter, Diana Krall, George Benson, Bobby McFerrin, Bob James &amp; David Sanborn and more!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Avalon (Catalina) Jazztrax Festival<\/strong> October 3-20, 2013, jazztrax.com<br \/>\nDavid Benoit, Mindi Abair, Earl Klugh, Paul Taylor, more<\/li>\n<li><strong>SLO (San Luis Obispo) Jazz Festival<\/strong> October 12, 2013 &#8211; slojazzfest.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Diego Jazz Fest<\/strong>\u00a0 November 27 &#8211; December 1, 2013 &#8211; dixielandjazzfestival.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend jazz lovers will unite at the Long Beach Jazz Festival. It isn&#8217;t surprising that jazz is extremely popular in California, considering that West Coast jazz, which developed around Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s as a sub-genre of cool jazz, is still going strong. It is by no means the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}