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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.
Opened. May 25, 1984 (1984-05-25) Construction cost. $3.1 million ($9.79 million in 2023 dollars[ 1 ]) Metropolitan Park is a 32-acre (130,000 m 2) [ 2 ] urban waterfront park and concert venue located on the north bank of the St. Johns River in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. [ 3 ] It is projected to be the eastern terminus of the northbank ...
Haydon Burns Library in Jacksonville, ca. 1968 Colorful mural. When built in 1965 at a cost of $3.7 million, it was considered state of the art. The 126,000 sq ft (11,700 m 2), three-story building was designed by local architect Taylor Hardwick, who designed dozens of other buildings in Jacksonville starting in the mid-1950s including the Skinner Dairy chain and Friendship Fountain and Park.
Riverside. Relatives. Nat Adderley (brother) Julian Edwin " Cannonball " Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. [1][2][3][4] Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", [5] which was written for him by his ...
Coordinates: 40°48′25″N 73°56′27″W. A Great Day in Harlem. A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958. [1] The idea for the photo came from Esquire ' s art director, Robert Benton, rather ...
Ax Handle Saturday. Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1960. A group of about 200 white men used baseball bats and ax handles to attack black people who were in sit-in protests opposing ...
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 [3] by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).
29 – The 4th Annual Grammy Awards were held at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. [1] Best Jazz Performance – Soloist or Small Group (Instrumental) André Previn for André Previn Plays Harold Arlen. Best Jazz Performance – Large Group (Instrumental) Stan Kenton for Kenton's West Side Story. Best Original Jazz Composition.