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Half Note Records is the Blue Note's live record label, founded in 2001. [6] Numerous musicians have recorded live albums at the Blue Note and released them on this label, including James Carter, Avishai Cohen, Elvin Jones, Odean Pope, Charles Tolliver, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Kenny Werner, Arturo Sandoval, Kenny Garrett and others.
Jazz Showcase is one of the oldest jazz clubs in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1947 by NEA Jazz Master Joe Segal, whose son Wayne now owns and operates the venue. [1] [2] Segal's various showcases have served as a launch pad for a number of career jazz musicians.
The Crescendo was a West Hollywood jazz venue located at 8572 Sunset Boulevard. It opened in 1954, along with the Interlude upstairs, and ran until 1964. It opened in 1954, along with the Interlude upstairs, and ran until 1964.
The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant is a jazz club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The club opened in 1985 at Bandana Square in St. Paul as a restaurant with local jazz in the bar. In 1988, the programming expanded to national artists with performances by McCoy Tyner and Ahmad Jamal .
The club's Latin American-themed decor was designed by Tony Duquette and cost $100,000 (equivalent to $2,071,493 in 2023). Along the walls were glass cages holding live cockatoos, macaws, seagulls, pigeons, and parrots. With big band music, the club became one of the most
The Radiators Live at the "Great American Music Hall" in 1998. Boz Scaggs recorded his 2004 released CD/DVD Greatest Hits Live in August 2003. The Secret Chiefs 3 recorded their DVD Live at the Great American Music Hall in 2007. [8] Jonathan Coulton recorded his album Best. Concert. Ever. in February 2008. [9]
A jazz kissa's book collection containing copies of Swing Journal. In 1950s Japan, live jazz performances were rare as were locally produced jazz records. [13] Instead, records had to be imported from America at prohibitively expensive prices that, while too costly for most individuals, jazz kissa would pay. This resulted in jazz kissa ...
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."