Back in February, Martin Ludlow, a former Los Angeles City Councilman, announced the inaugural edition of the LA Jazz Festival, a new music extravaganza that he’d founded. The festival was set to include a few weeks of performances in parks and nightclubs across Los Angeles, as well as a Caribbean street carnival in Venice and a two-day mini-fest called Jazz On The Beach that was set to feature artists like John Legend, Janelle Monaé, Raphael Saadiq, Charlie Wilson, and George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic. But just before the festival’s Aug. 7 kickoff show, which Lalah Hathaway was booked to headline, the entire festival was canceled under mysterious circumstances.
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