Club DeLisa
Club DeLisa was a jazz club in Chicago from the 1930s to 1950s.
The Club DeLisa (5516 South State Street) was from 1933 to 1958. He was in possession of four DeLisa brothers and belonged to the 798 Club, Basin Street, El Grotto Supper Club, Harry's Show Lounge, C and C Lounge and The Crown Propeller Lounge to the well-known clubs in the South Side of Chicago (Bronzeville, South Shore and Woodlawn), here Bronzeville. The club held up to 500 people. There initially u. a. Benny Goodman , Baby Dodds , Jimmy Noone , Billy Eckstine / Earl Hines , Count Basie , LaVern Baker , Chippie Hill , Lord Buckley and the band leader Red Saunders , who had a longer engagement there. A fire interrupted the activities in 1941, but the program was soon continued in a new building as New Club DeLisa . Nappy Brown , Fletcher Henderson , Red Holloway , Lurlean Hunter and Lonnie Simmons performed there until the 1950s . It was closed in 1958 after the death of two DeLisa brothers.
In Autobiography of Black Jazz , author Dempsey J. Travis described the scene at Club DeLisa as follows:
- The musical and artistic talent found at Club DeLisa made it the “in” place to go whether you were a native or a visitor to Chicago.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chicago and Downstate: Illinois as Seen by the Farm Security Administration , edited by Robert L. Reid, Larry A. Viskochil
- ↑ a b Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance , edited by Steven C. Tracy
- ^ Researching Chicago Jazz Venues at the University of Chicago