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NY 9A West Side Highway. East end. Cul-de-sac east of First Avenue. 52nd Street is a 1.9-mile-long (3.1 km) one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. A short section of it was known as the city's center of jazz performance from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Capacity. 400. Opened. February 12, 1974. Closed. 2004. The Bottom Line was a music venue at 15 West 4th Street between Mercer Street and Greene Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. During the 1970s and 1980s the club was a major space for small-scale popular music performances. It opened on February 11, 1974.
vincegiordano.com. Vince Giordano (born March 11, 1952, in Brooklyn) is an American saxophonist and leader of the New York-based Nighthawks Orchestra. He specializes in jazz of the 1920s and 1930s and his primary instrument is the bass saxophone. [1] Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks have played on television and film soundtracks, including the ...
Duplicate Bridge. Duplicate bridge is a variation of contract bridge where the same set of bridge deals (i.e., the distribution of the 52 cards among the four hands) are played by different competitors, and scoring is based on relative performance. In this way, every hand, whether strong or weak, is played in competition with others playing ...
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the ...
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, the club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jazz music venue in 1957. It has hosted many highly renowned jazz musicians since then, and today is the ...
Coordinates: 40°45′47″N 73°58′50″W. Jimmy Ryan's. Address. New York City, New York State. United States. Type. Jazz club. Jimmy Ryan's was a jazz club in New York City, USA, located at 53 West 52nd Street from 1934 to 1962 and 154 West 54th Street from 1962–1983. [1] It was a venue for performances of Dixieland jazz.
Billy Strayhorn. Lyricist (s) Lee Gaines (1942); Joya Sherrill (1944) " Take the 'A' Train " is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. [1] In 1976, the 1941 recording by Duke Ellington on Victor Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [2]