Central Avenue Sounds
In the mid-1940s two new styles of music arrived on Central Avenue in Los Angeles: rhythm and blues, then bebop. In another programme in his series on the West Coast jazz capital, Alyn Shipton hears from
Joe Bihari how managingjuke boxes led him to produce local rhythm and blues discs.
Tenorist Teddy Edwards remembers the arrival of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the West - but Edwards explains how he and Howard McGhee had already started the first modern jazz group in California.