In the photo, famed jazz and classical music flutist and saxophonist Hubert Laws, who will be presented with the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Society’s 30th Anniversary Jazz Tribute Awards Dinner and Concert on October 27.
Laws, a graduate of the Julliard School and a forty-year jazz professional, an NEA jazz master and three-time Grammy Award winner, will perform at the annual event which is also a benefit for the 30-year-old venerable jazz society.
Latin Jazz artists Pete Escovedo, Sheila E., Juan Escovedo, and Peter Michael Escovedo, a jazz family, will be feted as the Society’s 2013 Jazz Tribute Honorees.
Film critic, historian and jazz fan, Leonard Maltin will again serve as host/emcee of the Jazz Tribute Awards Dinner and Concert.
Hugh Hefner is the Honorary 30th Anniversary Tribute Chair and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is the Honorary Dinner Chair.
The Jazz Tribute Awards Dinner and Concert is the primary fundraiser for the nonprofit Los Angeles Jazz Society’s highly respected jazz education programs that benefit thousands of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District annually
We had a ball — and a fantastic musical experience — attending the event last year when the great Wayne Shorter received this award.
Los Angeles Jazz Society’s 30th Anniversary Jazz Tribute Awards dinner/concert | Hilton Universal City | Oct 27 | tickets & info
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