Jazz Bakery awarded NEA grant to support three shows in 2014

By Chris Barton

Dec. 16, 2013 12 AM PT

Though still-itinerant while waiting for a planned new home in Culver City, the Jazz Bakery was awarded an NEA Art Works Grant of $15,000, which will be put toward staging three shows with ensembles led by Ron Carter, Kenny Barron and Toshiko Akioshi.

Scheduled for 2014, the concerts will also include a master class and a pre-concert lecture from the three NEA Jazz Masters. The shows will be presented as part of the bakery’s ongoing Movable Feast concert series, and dates and times for the concerts have yet to be finalized.

The Jazz Bakery’s previous Culver City location closed in 2009 after the venue lost its lease in the Helms Bakery complex. The venue has finalized plans for a new home near the Kirk Douglas Theatre to be designed by Frank Gehry.

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The performances will take place at three local venues, including the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in Culver City, the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall downtown and the Japan America Theater in Little Tokyo.

In a statement, Jazz Bakery artistic director and founder Ruth Price said, “Being recognized by the NEA as an important cultural institution in Los Angeles is a dream come true and helps support our Movable Feast series while we look forward to the opening of our beautiful, permanent new home.”

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