Keystone Korner
The Keystone Korner was a bar and jazz club in San Francisco , which existed from 1972 to 1983. It was one of the premier modern jazz venues in the Bay Area during this period .
The Keystone Korner was on the first floor of a house on Vallejo Street at the corner of Columbus Avenue. The name is said to refer to the Keystone Cops at the nearby Central Police Station on Emery Alley. Before Todd Barkan bought it for $ 12,500 in 1972, it was a blues bar. Musicians such as Mose Allison , Miles Davis , Chet Baker , Mary Anne Driscoll , Red Garland , Stan Getz , Dexter Gordon , Harold Land , Jimmy Smith and Bill Evans , who recorded his last concert here a few days before his death in 1980, performed here. Jessica Williams was the resident pianist here in the late 1970s; it was followed by Larry Vuckovich . William S. Burroughs gave readings here (Abandoned Artifacts) . Bobby Hutcherson recorded the album Farewell Keystone (Theresa, 1988) in July 1982 for the tenth anniversary of its existence ; a year later, on July 12, 1983, the club closed for good. Documentary photographer Kathy Sloane published a photo book about Keystone Korner in 2011 .
literature
- Kathy Sloane: Keystone Korner, portrait of a jazz club, University of Indiana Press 2012
Discographic notes
The recordings are sorted according to the date they were recorded.
- 1973 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk : Bright Moments
- 1974 - McCoy Tyner : Atlantis
- 1975 - Yusef Lateef : 10 Years Hence: Recorded Live at Keystone Korner, San Francisco
- 1976 - Stan Getz / João Gilberto : Getz / Gilberto '76 (Resonance, ed. 2016)
- 1977 - Red Garland : Swingin 'on the Korner: Live at Keystone Korner (ed. 2014)
- 1977 - Art Pepper : San Francisco Samba: Live at Keystone Korner
- 1978 - Art Blakey : In This Korner
- 1978 - Denny Zeitlin : Soundings
- 1979 - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson : Redux: Live at the Keystone Korner
- 1980 - Bill Evans: Concecration
- 1980 - Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard : The Magic of 2
- 1980 - Freddie Hubbard : Pinnacle: Live and Unreleased from Keystone Korner
- 1981 - Stan Getz: The Dolphin / Spring Is Here
- 1981 - Freddie Hubbard : Keystone Bop: Sunday Night
- 1982 - Art Blakey : Keystone 3
- 1982 - Nat Adderley : On the Move
- 1982 - Pharoah Sanders : Heart Is A Melody
- 1983 - Paquito D'Rivera : Live at Keystone Korner
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Ross: Remembering a legendary Bay Area jazz club (2011) ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Sam Whiting: Keystone Korner documents jazz club in Son Francisco Chronicle 2011
- ↑ William S. Burroughs - Abandoned Artifacts
- ↑ Bobby Hutcherson - Farewell Keystone at Discogs
- ↑ Notes from Discogs , Allmusic or Cook / Morton: Penguin Guide to Jazz
Coordinates: 37 ° 47 '55.3 " N , 122 ° 24' 28.4" W.