Central Avenue Jazz Festival Central Avenue Jazz Festival The Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly annual free jazz festival that takes place the last weekend in the month of July in the Southern section of Los Angeles. Central Avenue, after which the area is named, was in the 1930s and 1940s a vibrant center for jazz. At this time the infamous covenant line along Washington Boulevard demarcated the areas where African Americans were allowed to live. Even the giants of jazz music, such as Duke Ellington were allowed to play in Hollywood and other areas, but they could not stay there. They often
Robert Coleman-Senghor 2009 and mayor in 2010. While teaching, Coleman-Senghor experienced sudden chest pains. He died two days later, on April 9, 2011. On November 7, 2013, his widow unveiled a permanent memorial to Coleman-Senghor. The memorial is located in Cotati's Veterans Park near the intersection of Old Redwood Highway and East Cotati Avenue. Robert Coleman-Senghor Robert Coleman-Senghor (1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American professor of English at Sonoma State University who served as mayor of Cotati, California for one year. He died suddenly in the hospital from a blood clot (which two days earlier had caused a heart attack