{"id":1006526,"date":"2026-08-17T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:22:27","slug":"what-really-happened-with-the-la-jazz-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006526\/","title":{"rendered":"What really happened with the LA Jazz Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dream-post-content-paragraph j6zgbu1\" style=\"--text-align:left\">Good morning, it\u2019s Monday, August 17. Expect more sunshine and a smidge of clouds today, with temps in the high 80s by afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong><strong>What actually happened with the last-minute cancellation of the LA Jazz Festival?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CROPPED-GettyImages-2273274323.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;border-radius:0px\" class=\"_2fealp2 _2fealp5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Ludlow, founder of the LA Jazz Festival, speaks during a preview event in Santa Monica on April 30, 2026. (Photo by VALERIE MACON \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dream-post-content-paragraph j6zgbu1\">Roughly 24 hours before the much-hyped inaugural LA Jazz Festival was supposed to open in Leimert Park, my colleague Hayes Davenport typed a message into our newsroom Slack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dream-post-content-paragraph j6zgbu1\">\u201cSo,\u201d he wrote, \u201csomething is afoot with the LA Jazz Festival,\u201d explaining that the festival\u2019s website had been scrubbed and a page that once listed a multitude of shows was now password protected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"dream-post-content-paragraph j6zgbu1\">It was unclear what, exactly, was going on, but by the next afternoon \u2014 hours before the first concert would have begun \u2014 festival organizer Martin Ludlow had put out a statement saying the 2026 festival was off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dream-post-content-paragraph j6zgbu1\">So began a saga that would consume most of my waking hours for the next eight days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thumb_LA_Material_Favicon_orange_800x800.png\" alt=\"logo\" class=\"_1arc3hn2\" style=\"border-radius:var(--wt-button-border-radius,0px);overflow:hidden\"\/>You\u2019ve reached your free article limit this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"_1arc3hn4\" style=\"font-family:var(--wt-paragraph-font-family,undefined);font-size:var(--wt-paragraph-font-size,0px);line-height:var(--wt-paragraph-line-height-size,1.5)\">Upgrade now to gain unlimited access to L.A. Material\u2019s reporting. Your support helps us keep really good, really independent journalism alive in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lamaterial.com\/upgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"_1arc3hn5\" style=\"padding:undefinedpx undefinedpx;background-color:#FF793F;color:#221700;border-radius:0px\">Upgrade now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, it\u2019s Monday, August 17. Expect more sunshine and a smidge of clouds today, with temps in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1006527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,17749,392,2961,224,5337,80],"class_list":["post-1006526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cities","tag-culture","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117111067834758161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}