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What began 20 years ago in a high school gymnasium has blossomed into one of America’s most respected and revered Jazz festivals. Spearheaded once again by founder Les DeMerle, a phenomenal [...]

Park West is honored to once again play a part in the Amelia Island Jazz Festival, happening from October 1 – 8 this year. To celebrate the event’s 20th anniversary, we recently caught up [...]

Park West Gallery is a long-time sponsor of Florida’s Amelia Island Jazz Festival, one of the premiere annual jazz celebrations in the United States. The festival was co-founded by Les DeMerle—an [...]

Legendary musician Wynton Marsalis once said, “Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and [...]

When Park West Gallery teams up with its artists for a good cause, they make great music together. Park West Gallery helped raise $7,000 for the Amelia Island Jazz Festival’s music scholarship [...]

Park West Gallery is once again joining the Amelia Island Jazz Festival to support future musicians with the Big Band Bash. The Amelia Island Jazz Festival will hold its annual Big Band Bash gala [...]

Enjoy the sounds of today’s top jazz performers and the sights of artwork by renowned artist Alfred “Alex” Gockel during the 2017 Amelia Island Jazz Festival. The annual jazz festival, held on [...]

The Amelia Island Jazz Festival needed to capture the power of jazz, and turned to none other than artist Alfred “Alex” Gockel to do it justice. Gockel was a natural choice to become the official [...]

Inspired by ancient modes of storytelling, comic strip compositions, and the grit of 1970s street art, David (Lebo) Le Batard surrenders his artwork to the sum of history. The Cuban-American [...]

Park West Gallery and the Park West Foundation supported one of America’s greatest art forms during the 6th Annual Big Band Bash gala on February 12 at Amelia Island, Florida. The jazz fundraiser [...]