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1981

Festival's Community Jazz Jam makes the Guinness Book of Records: The Community Jazz Jam sold out the Hollywood Bowl one week before the event. It was the largest jazz jam session ever held during community events (Rancho Cienega free concert), unofficially breaking the Guinness Book of Records mark, with more than 10,000 people participating. It is the largest press turnout for a non-rock musical event in the history of the Hollywood Bowl and in Southern California. Veteran jazz vocalist Helen Humes, in failing health, made her last public appearance with Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra. Her emotion-charged performance resulted in an outpouring of respect and affection by the sell-out crowd, which gave her the most sustained ovation ever recorded at the festival.

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