Jazz At Drew has been going on for 17 years, but until I saw a mention on Faboo Mama's site, it had gone unnoticed for me at least. But no more.
This high-caliber lineup mixes in icons of the last 50 years of Jazz - players great in their own right and also because they contributed mightily to the likes of Miles Davis and Aretha Franklin to name but two - with special Los Angeles acts like Leimert Park All-Stars, Locke High 40th Anniversary Reunion Band, Drew University All-Stars.

All this will be performed October 6 and 7 in the bucolic setting of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science campus in the Watts-Willowbrook community.

The stars include:
Jazz on the Latin Side All-Stars featuring Kenny Burrell.
Legendary guitarist David T. Walker Quartet featuring Byron Miller, Clarence McDonald & Leon Ndugu Chancler.
The mythic Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.
The incomparable flutist Hubert Laws.
Amazing trombonist Curtis Fuller and his Super Band featuring Nicolas Payton & Rene McLean.
Shelia E. and the Escovedo Family Orchestra.

There's also The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Malcolm Jamal-Warner & Miles Long.

There will also me a symphony orchestra to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Jerry Butler and the Music of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions with Jerry Butler and The Impressions listed as special guests.

Tickets are $45.
The festival began in 1991 with an audience of approximately 150 people nearly 10,000 converge on the campus today with proceeds supporting Drew University, the only historically Black institution for graduate education in the health profession west of the Mississippi.