The Mid-City Neighborhood Council’s (MINC) 20th Anniversary celebration on Sunday June 12 was a blast! Vendors, art and jazz lovers, friends and family came out to the Wellington Farmer’s Market in Historic West Adams, to celebrate MINC’s anniversary. The event also was the official unveiling of Bill Byers’ famed Jazz Series artworks, displayed on 38 light-pole Mid-City L.A. City Street banners along Washington Blvd., between La Brea Ave. and Crenshaw Blvd. Bill supported Los Angeles jazz artists and venues, raising social consciousness and the cultural achievements of jazz legends through his paintings, as well as the every-day plaintive faces of African-American peoples subjected to oppression and institutionalized discrimination. Bill’s nine iconic pieces: “Altoman”, “Blues Roots,” “Bass Man,” “Calypso Dance,” “Jazz Dancers”, “Jazz Guitar,” “Jazz Drummer,” “Trumpet Solo,” and “Trombone Solo” can be seen on gracing Mid-City streets until June 2023. His Jazz Series pays tribute to legendary artists such as John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Judith Jamison, Coleman Hawkins, Lester “Prez” Young, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, Josephine Baker, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, and many more.
