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The Blue Note Jazz Club is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. [ 1 ] The club's performance schedule features shows every evening at 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm and a Sunday jazz brunch. The club has locations across the globe in New York, NY; Waikiki, Hawaii; Napa, CA; Tokyo, Japan; Rio de ...
Village Vanguard. Coordinates: 40°44′9.6″N 74°0′5.8″W. The Village Vanguard in New York City, 2018. 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 ...
In September 1948, Miles Davis debuted his nonet at the club, a project that would eventually give rise to the seminal cool jazz album Birth of the Cool. By the early 1950s, the jazz component of the Roost was moved to Watkins's new club, Bop City. The Roost was the site of bootleg recordings of both Ella Fitzgerald and her then-husband, Ray ...
1949–1965, 1985-present. Website. birdlandjazz .com. Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, [ 1] was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one night in 1979. [ 1]
William Clayton "Pee Wee" Marquette (October 10, 1914 – September 21, 1992) [1] was the former master of ceremonies at the Birdland jazz club in New York City. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Marquette was the son of Willis and Kinnie Markett (or sometimes, Markette). [2] Marquette was under four feet tall; some reports have stated three-and-a ...
Nick's. Nick's ( Nick's Tavern) was a tavern and jazz club located at the northwest corner of 10th Street and 7th Avenue in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, [1] which was at its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. Many jazz artists performed at the club including Bill Saxton (a Friday night regular), [2 ...
Jazz Standard was a jazz club located at 116 East 27th Street in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It frequently hosted well-known bands and musicians. The club was owned by restaurateur Danny Meyer and was located in the basement of one of his Blue Smoke restaurants. The Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra, and Mingus ...
Sweet Basil was a jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, located at 88 Seventh Avenue South. Founded in 1974 by Sharif Esmat, it was considered among the most prominent New York City jazz clubs of its day. [ 1] Many jazz albums were recorded live at Sweet Basil, including Cecil Taylor 's Iwontunwonsi, McCoy Tyner 's Live at Sweet Basil ...