Sunday, June 17, 2007

Free Jazz

Meet Jose. Jose Villaverde. From Argentina.
He was playing the most beautiful post-war jazz in a shabby car park in downtown Ventura -- tucked between his handicapped van and a staircase raking of, well, car park smell. Though he elegantly declined to say, it was obvious that he was guerilla-playing in the car park because the City had driven him away from the streets. He said that he plays in this dirty, dark corner every Friday and Saturday night. Ventura visitors and jazz amateurs, take note: the parking structure is on the corner of California and Main.
photo LA Frog