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Capacity. 74. Opened. 1994. (1994) Website. smallslive.com. Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. [1][2] Established in 1994, [3] it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising ...
Founded in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York City by a group including students from the African American Student Association (ASA) and Jitu Weusi (Les Campbell), The East was a community education and arts organization based on principles of self-determination, nation building, and Black consciousness. [1][2] It served as a branch of Amiri Baraka ...
Brooklyn Jazz Underground is a jazz association founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 2007. The association was formed by ten musicians to promote their work. [1] In 2008, Anne Mette Iversen and Alexis Cuadrado of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground started the sister company, the record label Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.
A Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame member is a jazz musician who has made a significant contribution to the art form called jazz; used his artistry for social causes. The artist was born, a long-time resident, and has a musical connection to Kings County in New York State. Members of the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame include: Lena Horne, Max Roach ...
Coordinates: 40.725656°N 73.991794°W. The Tin Palace was a jazz nightclub on the Bowery in New York 's East Village, founded by architect Misha Saradoff, that opened in 1973 and closed in 1979. Saradoff hired Paul Pines to manage the nightclub which presented jazz from the classics and standards to cutting edge avant-garde and Afro-Brazilian ...
The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) is a not for profit arts organization. Jitu Weusi was one of the co-founders. CBJC organized an annual jazz festival in Central Brooklyn, New York and created the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame and Museum. The festival occurs every April. This music series is New York City's longest running festival ...
Half Note Club. Coordinates: 40°43′32.5″N 74°0′28″W. The Half Note was a jazz club in New York City, New York that flourished in two Manhattan locations – from 1957 to 1972 in SoHo (then known as the Village) at 289 Hudson Street at Spring Street and from 1972 to 1974 in Midtown at 149 West 54th Street, one block west of the Museum ...
Minton's original owner, Henry Minton, was known in Harlem for being the first ever black delegate to the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. [3] In addition, he had been the manager of the Rhythm Club, in Harlem, in the early part of the 1930s, a venue which Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Earl Hines frequented. [4]