The ambitious festival also promised a youth jazz camp and youth jazz intensive/master class, and seminars on the state of jazz in America. The LA Jazz Fest said it expected to attract 250,000 attendees and had been promoting the event up until just days ago. By Friday, the LA Jazz Fest website had been scrubbed, with only a cryptic message that said, “August 22-23. He was scheduled to perform this weekend at the inaugural LA Jazz Festival, but at the last minute, he found out his and dozens of other performers’ gigs were canceled.” On Reddit, one poster suggested that their husband, a concert promoter, was asked to put together a jazz festival “with very little turnaround time,” and assumed this was it.