JAZZ REVIEWS : L.A. BLUES FESTIVAL

There was nothing wrong with the first Los Angeles Blues Festival that a change in weekends wouldn’t cure (the more established Long Beach Blues Festival, which will be held next weekend, may have simply overshadowed it).

Held at the outdoor Velodrome at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, Saturday’s 10-hour L.A. Blues Festival featured excellent sound, nonstop music (courtesy of two adjacent stages) and some mighty short refreshment lines, seeing as how there weren’t more than about 1,000 folks on hand.

Which is all right. Everybody seemed to be enjoying themselves, especially during a knockout performance by the star of the day, B. B. King, whose long, loose set suffered only because he didn’t play enough git-tar (not a single fill?).