Cobb's Corner (Detroit)
Cobb's Corner was a Detroit jazz club from the 1970s and 1980s, which, with its spectrum from traditional jazz to the avant-garde, was considered "the new jazz corner of the world" .
Cobb's Corner, located at 4201 Cass Avenue (corner of W. Willis Street) near Avalon Bakery , was a popular jazz music venue in Detroit in the late 1970s . Detroit musicians like Marcus Belgrave , Frank Isola , Bobby MacDonald , Allan Barnes , Malvin McCray, Wendell Harrison , Harold McKinney , Dwayne Crenshaw, George Goldsmith, Sam Sanders, Leonard Kind, Nasir Hafiz, Ron English and the bands Prismatic, Stratanova and Griot Galaxy to Jaribu Shahid and Faruq Z. Bey occurred there; the house band was Michael Ager's group All Directions .
Concerts by the Lyman Woodard Organization were recorded ( Don't Stop the Groove , 1979). There were also poetry readings and art events organized by the Cass Corridor cooperative . The club was run by Henry Normile, who was shot dead in his apartment next to the club on January 27, 1979. Two weeks earlier, Normile had founded the Corridor Records label with his business partner John Sinclair and the musicians Lyman Woodard and Marcus Belgrave . The club existed until the early 1980s. The building was used as the Cass Corridor Food Co-op until 2001.
Web links
- Henry Normile, Owner of the famous Cobb's Corner Jazz Bar
- Photography from Cobb's Corner
- Corridor Records
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry Normile, Owner of the famous Cobb's Corner Jazz Bar
- ↑ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelagerfeaturingthea CD Baby
- ↑ Detroit music: the ultimate sightseer's guide ( memento of the original from March 13, 2012 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.
- ^ Corridor Tribe
Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '2.3 " N , 83 ° 3' 49.8" W.