Our Partners



The Angel City Jazz Festival receives tax deductible donations through the auspices of NewTown Pasadena Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. We are grateful for the support of all our 2009 sponsors.

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Partners

Greenleaf Music is an independent music company dedicated to an American music moving forward in all directions. Curated by label-head Dave Douglas, Greenleaf's artist roster includes Douglas' many projects, as well as Donny McCaslin, Nicole Mitchell, Hamid Drake, Harrison Bankhead, Michael Bates, and Kneebody. Through lossless digital distribution through their webstore, artists blogs and special offers such as yearly subscription services, Greenleaf offers listeners an in-depth perspective to the artistic process.
Cryptogramophone Records presents state of the art recordings of creative jazz in beautifully designed packages. Some artists on Cryptogramophone include Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Scott Amendola, Ben Goldberg, and Bennie Maupin.
NewTown is a dedicated consortium of accomplished professional artists and artist/administrators - musicians, dancers, film and video makers and visual artists - all of whom donate their time to ensure new creative opportunities for their colleagues throughout Southern California. It is a leader in the resurgence of artist-run, not-for-profit organizations currently emerging in Southern California and leading the way to an art world outside institutional confines, reinstating art in the pantheon of public discourse, private pleasure and plain old fun.
Since 1927 The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has been the playground of luminaries including Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Marilyn Monroe and the birthplace of the Academy Awards. Sweeping renovations by acclaimed designer Dodd Mitchell in 2005 heralded its rebirth - a place where old Hollywood and young Hollywood entwine.
America's Jazz & Blues Station.

Patrons

DL Media provides premiere public relations services to the jazz community.
Westmount Asset Management, Inc. is an investment advisory firm that blends sophisticated institutional money management strategies with a wide range of consulting and planning services.
Words about music from Greg Burk and friends. Your source for Los Angeles outsider gig listings and reviews of the finest extremities worldwide.

Friends

Gourmet Web Design & Development for the masses.
Rich Breen is a Southern California based recording engineer who has been working at the highest levels of professional audio for the last 25 years. Dozens of Mr. Breen’s recordings have been nominated or won Grammy awards, and he has personally been nominated for the Engineering Grammy in 2001.
Creative photography by professional Los Angeles photographer Paul Antico. Whether capturing expressive movement such as dance, the wit of conceptual imagery, or the essence of fleeting moments, photographer/artist Paul Antico has a discriminating, clever, often surprising and sometimes surreal perspective that engages the emotions and the intellect.
LeRoy Downs, also known as the Jazz Cat, will be the Angel City Jazz Festival MC on both days. We're honored to have him as part of our event. His voice is probably familiar to many because of his long time presence on the radio waves. He's the rare radio DJ who isn't afraid to play the more adventurous jazz that defines our festival.
KXLU is a non-commercial, educational station broadcasting from the Westchester campus of Loyola Marymount University at an assigned carrier of 88.9 megahertz and an assigned radiating power of 3000 watts. Owned by the Board of Trustees of Loyola Marymount University, KXLU is operated in the public interest by its student, staff, faculty, and volunteer staff.
The Best Little Microbrewery in Southern California Featuring the Award-Winning Recipes of Michael Bowe, Two-Time California Homebrewer of he Year.