Hermosa Beach Museum opens new exhibit celebrating jazz and punk

Hermosa Beach Museum opens new exhibit celebrating jazz and punk

by Laura Garber  Hermosa Beach Museum’s latest exhibit, “Echoes from the Edge: A Cultural History of Jazz and Punk in Hermosa Beach,” opened on July 17.  The ode to the small beach town’s cultural impact on the two distinct genres explores the tie between “two seemingly opposing genres -jazz and punk,” the museum’s opening plaque states.  The Lighthouse jazz club’s spicy nights of the 1950s and 1960s and the clamorous 1970s’ and 1980s’ punk scen…