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West end. 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.
The 181st Street station (also known as 181st Street–Fort Washington Avenue) is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located beneath Fort Washington Avenue in the Hudson Heights section of the Washington Heights neighborhood, between 181st and 184th Streets.
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 ...
The Five Spot Café was a jazz club located at 5 Cooper Square (1956–1962) in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City, between the East and West Village. In 1962, it moved to 2 St. Marks Place until closing in 1967. Its friendly, non-commercial, and low-key atmosphere with affordable drinks and food and cutting edge bebop and progressive ...
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 ...
New York Jazz Museum. Coordinates: 40.764079°N 73.983129°W. The New York Jazz Museum was, from June 16, 1972, [ 1][ 2] to 1977, a center for the study of jazz. [not verified in body] At its height it held 25,000 items. It was founded by Howard E. Fischer, among others, but closed after five years amid a power struggle between Fischer and ...
Area code. 212, 332, 646, and 917. The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded approximately by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park and Fifth Avenue to the west. [4]
Beginning in the 1960s, he began working primarily as an ensemble leader in New York City. In the 1990s he worked in Felix Endico's swing band. Yaged served as a consultant on Benny Goodman's musical style for the 1956 film, The Benny Goodman Story. From 1996–97, he worked under the musical direction of bandleader Jack Vartan at the Stony ...