In conjunction with The Orange County Museum of Art's ongoing Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury exhibition, the Getty Research Institute will present Coast to Coast: Art and Jazz in France and California, three days of events (Nov. 13-15) exploring the intersection of jazz music with postwar art and culture. Moving beyond the investigation of traditional jazz histories, the events focus on the development of West Coast jazz and France's unique jazz culture.
The series includes scholarly presentations as well as film screenings, conversations with artists and musicians, poetry readings, and performances, and culminates in a concert with West Coast (including our old friends Vinny Golia and Bobby Bradford) and French musicians playing well-known jazz favorites and new interpretations of jazz classics.
