Club Plantation (Detroit)
The Plantation Club was a Detroit music venue that opened in 1933 and existed under various names through the late 1940s. As one of the popular Paradise Valley nightclubs , it was known nationwide for its program.
History of the club
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The Plantation , soon to be known as Club Plantation , was located at 550 East Adams Street in Detroit's Paradise Valley entertainment district , in the East Side residential area of Afro-American people between St. Antoine and Adams Streets. It was in the basement of the Norwood Hotel, where dance and music events took place from 1933. The name Plantation - like the New York Cotton Club did - should evoke associations with the old southern states . For a period of eight years, Club Plantation was one of the most popular venues in town, along with the 606 Horseshoe Lounge and the B&C Club , known for its dancers, singers, comedians and EmCees . Jean Goldkette performed here with his orchestra; the Detroit bandleaders Earl Walton and Cecil Lee (with Todd Rhodes ) performed there regularly. There were also guest appearances by nationally known artists such as Don Albert , Fats Waller , Duke Ellington , Cab Calloway and Bessie Smith .
The Plantation Club was managed by Andrew "Jap" Sneed in the 1930s; musical director was his business partner Stutz Anderson. Legal disputes led to the club being continued as Club Congo from 1941 with a new management ; In the following years Detroit jazz musicians such as Wardell Gray , Teddy Edwards , Howard McGhee and Johnny Allen performed here ; Billie Holiday had a week-long engagement here in 1942, the same year the club closed. It was reopened as Club Sudan in 1946; pianist Willie Anderson played at nightly jam sessions . The Ink Spots , Kenny Burrell and Barry Harris also performed here until the hotel closed in the late 1940s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Detroit music: the ultimate sightseer's guide ( Memento of the original from March 13, 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.
- ^ David Lee Poremba: Detroit in its world setting: a three hundred year chronology, 1701-2001
- ↑ Lars Björn, Jim Gallert: Before Motown: a history of jazz in Detroit, 1920-60 , p. 39 f.
- ↑ a b Lars Björn: The 1930s: Paradise Valley Days ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Christopher Wilkinson: Jazz on the road: Don Albert's musical life , p. 196
- ↑ David A. Carson: Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
- ^ Billboard May 11, 1946
