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Sunday just got better. Join us this week at Delicious at The Dunbar for our Jazz Showcase, 2:30–4:30 PM. Each week we b...
09/06/2026

Sunday just got better. Join us this week at Delicious at The Dunbar for our Jazz Showcase, 2:30–4:30 PM. Each week we bring in a fresh voice to fill the room with live jazz while you eat.
Come hungry, stay for the music. 🎷
📍 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles
🕑 SUNDAY, 2:30–4:30 PM
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09/03/2026

Buddy Guy, 1981. Bumpershoot Music Festival, Seattle.
Jimmy Velarde shot this the same year he started touring as stage support for Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, and Big Mama Thornton — camera always on him, even when it wasn't the job. That's basically the whole story of his career. Trust first, camera second.
He's a 12-time Emmy winner now, Grammy-nominated, been shooting for CBS Television City since '89. But this shot is where it started — black-and-white, unposed, shot on instinct because that's the only way he ever knew how to work.
"My images were spontaneous. I was living inside the music."
Jimmy Velarde is exhibiting at the 12th Annual Arts Pavilion, Bay [ #], part of the 31st Central Avenue Jazz Festival — Saturday, September 19, free admission, 42nd & Central.
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08/31/2026

Twenty bays. One tent. 17 artists on the block where Central Avenue's jazz age actually happened.
The Arts Pavilion returns to 42nd & Central for its twelfth year at the 31st Central Avenue Jazz Festival — a few steps from the Dunbar Hotel, where Billie Holiday stayed and the Club Alabam crowd spilled out onto this street.
Kenneth Gatewood is our 2026 Featured Artist. His solo exhibition The Medium of Memory is up at Arts @ Delicious inside the Historic Dunbar through September 30.
Check the full lineup. Everyone here is showing under one roof, one day only.
EnkOne paints live on the wall. Going all day.
Saturday, September 19 · 11am–7pm 42nd & Central, South Los Angeles Free to enter
Full lineup at lamancha.events/artspavilion26
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Sunday Jazz Showcase at Delicious at The Dunbar, 4229 S. Central Ave.Rubato Elegante plays 2:30 to 4:30 PM this Sunday, ...
08/30/2026

Sunday Jazz Showcase at Delicious at The Dunbar, 4229 S. Central Ave.
Rubato Elegante plays 2:30 to 4:30 PM this Sunday, August 30.
The room is currently hung with The Medium of Memory, Kenneth Gatewood's exhibition of watercolors and mixed media work, up through September 30. Music, food, and the art all in the same afternoon on Central.
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08/28/2026

Watercolor doesn't forgive mistakes. Neither does memory.
Movement II of The Medium of Memory turns away from the stage and toward the block. Kenneth Gatewood paints the neighborhood he came up in, and the medium is the whole argument — watercolor gives you one pass. No painting over a bad decision. What went down is what stays.
Three works in this movement. Purdy Gurl 2 is an original on paper. The Awakening carries 22 karat gold leaf over watercolor, three of ten in the edition. Vision Unlimited is new this year and built with JET magazine collage, a printer's proof with only two in existence.
On view through September 30 at Delicious at The Dunbar, 4229 S. Central Ave.
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Darryl "DWAKE" Wakefield plays the Sunday Jazz Showcase tomorrow at Delicious at The Dunbar.2:30 to 4:30. Kenneth Gatewo...
08/23/2026

Darryl "DWAKE" Wakefield plays the Sunday Jazz Showcase tomorrow at Delicious at The Dunbar.
2:30 to 4:30. Kenneth Gatewood's paintings are on the walls through September 30, so come early and give yourself time with the work before the set starts.
4229 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles
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08/23/2026

SPOTLIGHT 06 — Mohammed Mubarak
Lady Day. Acrylic on canvas.
Billie Holiday stayed at the Dunbar Hotel. She sang next door at Club Alabam. The trumpeter Clora Bryant remembered Holiday babysitting her daughter while Bryant rehearsed on the stage.
The Dunbar is at 4225 South Central — 42nd and Central. Same street as the Arts Pavilion.
On September 19 this painting hangs a few hundred feet from where she slept.
Mubarak has been painting since 1970, taught by his uncle Arthur Dunlap Jr. and by David Mosley, the Watts oil painter. No formal training. His portraits are on walls across LA County and inside Compton City Hall — Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Muhammad Ali, Maxine Waters.
He painted her in profile. No gardenia. Just the face, mid-thought.
Arts Pavilion · Sat Sept 19 · 11am–7pm · 42nd & Central · Free
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