Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly free music festival held during the last weekend of July along a stretch of Central Avenue which includes the Dunbar Hotel. The festival features jazz, blues, and Latin Jazz performed by both well-known and upcoming artists from the area. Transportation Central Avenue provides bus service along Metro Local: Line 53. Books Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles (Roth Family Foundation Book in American Music), Clora Bryant et al., Central Avenue: Its Rise and Fall, 1890-C1955, Including the Musical Renaissance of Black LA, Bette Yarbrough Cox, The Great Black Way: L.A.’s Central Avenue in the 1940s And the Rise of African-American Pop Culture, R.J. Smith, Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue (Music/Culture), Johnny Otis, Albums Fourteen albums contain the name "Central Avenue" in their titles, including CDs by Pete Johnson, Nat King Cole, Big Jay McNeely, Jack McVea, Big Joe Turner, Teddy Wilson and Savoy Records. References External links History of Jazz on Central Avenue Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Project, Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles. Streets in Los Angeles Streets in Los Angeles County, California South Los Angeles African-American history in Los Angeles Carson, California Compton, California Downtown Los Angeles Watts, Los Angeles Willowbrook, California