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• 1 media/15-393.jpg media/15-393.jpg 2021-05-01T21:09:54-07:00 Hollywood Jazz 5 Richard Wyatt
  1750 North Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90028
  1990 plain 2021-05-18T15:57:08-07:00 1990 34.103205,-118.326573 The Los Angeles Jazz Society and Los Angeles County Academic Decathlon (LACAD) commissioned the mural Hollywood Jazz in 1990. Paid for by the Los Angeles Endowment of the Arts, they predicted that the mural would last five years due to the fading caused by the scorching sun. Surpassing the five-year time frame, Hollywood Jazz became a Los Angeles landmark that would be seen in the movie Rush Hour and many TV shows. The mural depicts eleven Jazz Greats including Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and more.
  
  Located on Vine St. directly in front of the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, the mural endured decades of sun, smog, and shifted geography. It faded to a point where Wyatt saw outline marks of the original design. In 2011, Wyatt was able to restore the mural with the use of 2,288 12-inch square ceramic tiles to increase the longevity of the mural. Instead of the nine months that it took to paint the original Hollywood Jazz, the restoration effort took fifteen months to complete because of the complex firing process of the ceramic tiles. As described by Wyatt, “I had to improvise with the placement of these tiles, just like these great jazz musicians did their entire careers.” Capitol Records commissioned the restoration because Frank Sinatra and Nat Cole King, artists depicted in the mural, frequently recorded in their building. They considered their restoration efforts a tribute to jazz and a way to preserve the history of Hollywood.
  
  Written by Jorge Gonzalez, c/o ‘24