Locals reflect on 30 years of the Central Ave Jazz Festival

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Sept. 21, 2025 9:59 AM PT

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This year’s Central Ave Jazz Festival marked 30 years of keeping the memory of the once bustling cultural hub alive. Folks gathered to hear live music, shop with vendors, take pictures and eat. Hear what longtime attendees and native residents had to say about the festival.

Quincy Bowie Jr.

Quincy Bowie Jr. is a video fellow at the Los Angeles Times. The proud Alabama native graduated from USC, where he studied journalism and documentary. In his time there, he contributed to the Daily Trojan, USC Annenberg Media and produced multiple documentaries and short films. You can find his previous work at CNN, Spectrum News and Memorías de Nomada.