{"id":817,"date":"2011-10-12T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/catalinas-jazz-club-at-25.html"},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:42:00","slug":"catalinas-jazz-club-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/catalinas-jazz-club-at-25.html","title":{"rendered":"Catalina&#8217;s Jazz Club at 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOMETIMES culture works in strange ways. Twenty-five years ago this month, Catalina Popescu, who had emigrated to LA from an authoritarian Romania, a country without an especially rich jazz tradition, met the horn player Buddy Collette, and within a week had opened a jazz club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GzDghkL7knc\/TpW1SwzOnOI\/AAAAAAAABLc\/HoJvLmv0l68\/s1600\/D._Gillespie%252C_J._Lewis%252C_C._Payne%252C_M._Davis%252C_R._Brown.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GzDghkL7knc\/TpW1SwzOnOI\/AAAAAAAABLc\/HoJvLmv0l68\/s320\/D._Gillespie%252C_J._Lewis%252C_C._Payne%252C_M._Davis%252C_R._Brown.jpg\" width=\"315\"><\/a>A quarter century later, Catalina&#8217;s on Sunset is still open. With the demise of the beloved Jazz Bakery (soon to rise again), it&#8217;s become the most consistent place to see major national acts in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/10\/influences-club-owner-catalina-popescu.html\">Here<\/a> is my piece in today&#8217;s LA Times about some of musicians who made Popescu want to open a jazz club and keep it going through good times and bad.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to the club, which celebrates with a bash on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMETIMES culture works in strange ways. Twenty-five years ago this month, Catalina Popescu, who had emigrated to LA from an authoritarian Romania, a country without an especially rich jazz tradition, met the horn player Buddy Collette, and within a week had opened a jazz club. A quarter century later, Catalina&#8217;s on Sunset is still open. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jazz","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}