The Jazz Workshop (San Francisco)
The Jazz Workshop was a jazz club in San Francisco that existed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s and was considered one of the most famous jazz venues on the west coast of the United States in the early 1960s.
History of the club
The Jazz Workshop , located at 473 Broadway in San Francisco, was a jazz club that played modern jazz musicians , particularly since the Black Hawk closed in 1963. In the club, u. a. Art Blakey , Ornette Coleman , John Coltrane , Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins . The club was also a popular meeting place for artists and writers of the Beat Generation ; comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested in the club in 1961 for profanity. One floor above the club was the Dilexi Galley from 1958 to 1970 , where avant-garde artists such as John Chamberlain and Robert Morris exhibited.
The success of The Cannonball Adderley Quintet recorded in the Jazz Workshop for Riverside Records in San Francisco in 1959 promoted the career of the alto saxophonist and made the club known nationwide. Further recordings of concerts by Les McCann , Kenny Dorham , Barry Harris , The Mastersounds by Buddy and Monk Montgomery , James Moody , Jack McDuff , Thelonious Monk , Charles Mingus and George Duke were released on record.
Discographic notes
- 1959 - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Riverside)
- 1960 - The Mastersounds Play Horace Silver at the Jazz Workshop ( Pacific Jazz )
- 1961 - Kenny Dorham and Jackie McLean: Inta Somethin ' (Toshiba)
- 1961 - Barry Harris: At the Jazz Workshop (Riverside)
- 1961 - James Moody: Cookin 'The Blues ( Argo )
- 1962 - Cannonball Adderley: The Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside)
- 1963 - Brother Jack McDuff: Brother Jack at the Jazz Workshop: Live! ( Prestige )
- 1964 - Charles Mingus: Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop ( Fantasy )
- 1964 - Thelonious Monk: Live at the Jazz Workshop ( Columbia , ed. 1982)
Remarks
- ↑ Franzo Wayne King later founded in the wake of a Coltrane concert in 1960 at the Jazz Gallery in the early 1970s his Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church . See also Lewis Porter: John Coltrane: his life and music