Black Hawk (jazz club)

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The Black Hawk was a jazz club in San Francisco that existed from 1949 to 1963.

The Black Hawk jazz club was one of the most famous venues for jazz music in San Francisco during its existence from 1949 to 1963. It was located on the corner of Turk Street and Hyde Street in the Tenderloin district. The club was owned by Guido Caccienti and Johnny and Helen Noga . The intimate club atmosphere was ideal for smaller jazz groups. In 1959, the club was able to pay fees for jazz events ranging from $ 300 to over $ 3,000 per week. A number of musicians recorded albums here; these include Miles Davis , Cal Tjader , Thelonious Monk , Shelly Manne and Mongo Santamaría . Billie Holiday and Lester Young gave their last concerts on the west coast here, the Modern Jazz Quartet their first. Even Charlie Parker found himself in a jam session in the Black Hawk one. Other well-known musicians who performed here were u. a. Dave Brubeck , John Coltrane , Dizzy Gillespie , Chet Baker , Stan Getz , Johnny Mathis , Art Blakey , Shorty Rogers , Art Pepper , Art Farmer , Gerry Mulligan , Horace Parlan and Russ Freeman . Art Tatum gave concerts here for the last 18 months of his life; he played in the Black Hawk in 1955 .

The Sunday afternoon sessions at the Black Hawk gave younger musicians the opportunity to perform. After such a concert, co-owner Helen Noga decided to manage the young singer Johnny Mathis. She was able to convince George Avakian , who was the A&R manager at Columbia Records , to come to San Francisco and hear him. After the concert, Avakian sent the telegram to the corporate headquarters: "Have found phenomenal 19-year-old boy who could go all the way." There is now a parking lot at the place where the Black Hawk was. A bronze plaque has been a reminder of the former club since 2012.

Discographic notes

  • 1953 - Dave Brubeck: Jazz at the Black Hawk ( Fantasy )
  • 1958 - Cal Tjader: A Night at the Blackhawk (Live) (Fantasy)
  • 1959 - Shelly Manne & His Men at The Black Hawk , Vols. 1-4 ( Contemporary )
  • 1960 - Thelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two at the Blackhawk ( Riverside )
  • 1961 Miles Davis: In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Volume I-II ( Columbia )
  • 1962 - Mongo Santamaría: At The Black Hawk (Fantasy)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time (Monday August 3, 1959)
  2. ↑ Selvin, Joel . San Francisco, the Musical History Tour: A Guide to Over 200 of the Bay Area , Chronicle Books, page 76, (1996) - ISBN 0811810070
  3. ↑ Time: Dave Brubeck (Monday, December 2, 1957)
  4. ↑ Michaels, Leonard. West of the West: Imagining California , University of California Press, page178, (1995) - ISBN 0520201647
  5. ↑ Dave Brubeck bio ( Memento from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Chambers, Jack. Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles , Da Capo Press, page 312, (1998) - ISBN 0306808498
  7. ↑ Ewen, David. All the Years of American Popular Music , Prentice Hall, page 536, (1977) - ISBN 0130224421
  8. ↑ Chilton, John. Who's who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street , Da Capo Press, 1985, p.325 ISBN 0306802430
  9. ^ Johnny Mathis biography at Franklin County ( July 20, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Doug Ramsey : The Blackhawk Gets Its Due (2012) in Rifftides
  11. ↑ All About Jazz: Shelly Manne & His Men At The Black Hawk

Coordinates: 37 ° 46 ′ 57.5 "  N , 122 ° 24 ′ 56.3"  W.