Blues Alley
The Blues Alley is a renowned jazz club founded in 1965 on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, DC with a daily program and is considered the preferred venue in Washington for nationally and internationally known jazz musicians.
Recordings of live performances have been published by Eva Cassidy , Dizzy Gillespie , Tommy Gwaltney , Ahmad Jamal , Pat Martino , Hod O'Brien , George Shearing , Joshua Redman and Wynton Marsalis , among others .
In 1985 the Blues Alley Jazz Society was founded together with Dizzy Gillespie to train and support local musicians.
Web links
- Blues Alley Website of the jazz club
- Blues Alley Documentary produced by WETA-TV
- Blues Alley Jazz Society Website of the Blues Alley Jazz Society
- Blues Alley at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
Coordinates: 38 ° 54 '16.9 " N , 77 ° 3' 44.3" W.