{"id":422601,"date":"2026-08-03T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:43:08","slug":"l-a-launches-its-first-ever-jazz-festival-this-week-with-175-free-concerts-a-massive-caribbean-street-carnival-in-venice-and-a-huge-beach-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422601\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. launches its first-ever jazz festival this week with 175+ free concerts, a massive Caribbean street carnival in Venice, and a huge beach party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LA-Jazz-Festival-2-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\" alt=\"Janelle Monae and John Legend\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCreative Lab, A.PAES via Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The inaugural Los Angeles Jazz Festival is set to sweep across the city from August 7\u201323, 2026, with 17 days of free and ticketed <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/concerts-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/concerts-los-angeles\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">concerts<\/a>, beach parties, club nights, and community events. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all builds toward a blockbuster \u201cJazz on the Beach\u201d finale at Dockweiler Beach and a vibrant Caribbean Street Carnival in Venice, giving Angelenos and visitors plenty of ways to join the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>LA Jazz Festival program<\/p>\n<p>Jazz on the Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the weekend of August 22\u201323, the LA Jazz Festival\u2019s Jazz on the Beach finale will pack Dockweiler Beach in Playa del Rey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday\u2019s lineup headlines Janelle Mon\u00e1e and Charlie Wilson, and Sunday\u2019s features John Legend and Raphael Saadiq alongside a long list of additional acts, with general admission passes starting around $71.43.<\/p>\n<p>Caribbean Street Carnival<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A free\u00a0Caribbean Street Carnival\u00a0will come to\u00a0Venice\u00a0on Friday, August 21, featuring\u00a0four stages\u00a0dedicated to Cuban Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Latin Jazz, and Afrobeats. Check it out from 4-10pm <\/p>\n<p>More LA Jazz Festival events<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to its major final weekend events, the LA Jazz Festival will present several weeks of 175+ free shows. Look for\u00a0\u201cJazz in the Park,\u201d\u00a0a series of free concerts at L.A. region parks between August 8-16, and\u00a0\u201cJazz After Dark,\u201d\u00a0exciting late-night events popping up at neighborhood spots around L.A between August 19-23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival will also host a Jazz Youth Camp bringing together 2,000 local students, as well as a State of Jazz Conference for industry professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizers expect\u00a0250,000 people\u00a0to turn out for the LA Jazz Festival. Will you be one of them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83c\udf10 Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lajazzfestival.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.lajazzfestival.com\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">LA Jazz Festival website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creative Lab, A.PAES via Shutterstock The inaugural Los Angeles Jazz Festival is set to sweep across the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-422601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}