The Dunbar Jazz Supper Club

The Dunbar Jazz Supper Club Live Jazz and sometimes a visit from Billy Holiday her self! OPENING SOON... The Dunbar Jazz Super Club! This is History in the making. E. B.

We know you will love this! Read a little history of how this Hotel in the 1930's was the Jazz Mecca of Los Angeles for Black Folks...

"The Dunbar Hotel, originally known as the Hotel Somerville, was the focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in Los Angeles, California during the 1930s and 1940s. Built in 1928, it was known for its first year as the Hotel Somerville. Upon it

s opening, it hosted the first national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to be held in the western United States. In 1930, the hotel was renamed the Dunbar, and it became the most prestigious hotel in LA's African-American community. In the early 1930s, a nightclub opened at the Dunbar, and it became the center of the Central Avenue jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940s. The Dunbar hosted Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Lena Horne and many other jazz legends. Other noteworthy people who stayed at the Dunbar include W. Du Bois, Joe Louis, Ray Charles and Thurgood Marshall. Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson also ran a nightclub at the Dunbar in the 1930s."

06/21/2012

"You don't define Jazz, Jazz is an attitude" -Mr. Miles Davis

Love this!
06/08/2012

Love this!

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Summertime. The best version, I guess.

A great shot of The Dunbar back in the day.Rooms were just $1 a day!
06/05/2012

A great shot of The Dunbar back in the day.

Rooms were just $1 a day!

She is SO amazing!
06/03/2012

She is SO amazing!

Rare Live Footage of one of the firtst anti rascism songs ever.

MUST BUYS...
06/03/2012

MUST BUYS...

Ten Classic Jazz Recordings to Start Your Collection.

06/01/2012
The Rebirth...
06/01/2012

The Rebirth...

With funding from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, the Historic Dunbar Sommerville Hotel, a significant source of pride and achievement in the Central...

Have a tour...
06/01/2012

Have a tour...

Extending from downtown to 100th street, this historic entertainment district rivaled the pulsating excitement of New York's Harlem and Chicago's Bronzeville...

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