Cookery

21 East 10th Street 60 University Place where the Cookery was located; it was built in 1926 by the architects Sugarman & Berger.

Cookery was a New York jazz club and restaurant from the 1970s.

history

Cookery was founded in 1953 by Barney Josephson (1902–1988), the previous owner of the Cafe Society ; it was originally a chain of three eponymous restaurants, two of which closed in later years. In 1969 Mary Lou Williams was able to convince Josephson to offer live music in his club. The Cookery Club was located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood (21 University Place and East 8th Street); in the following years u. a. also artists who had already performed in the Cafe Society, such as Teddy Wilson , Nellie Lutcher , Rose Murphy , Eddie Heywood , Sammy Price , Susan Reed and Helen Humes , as well as Larry Adler and Marian McPartland . Recordings of performances by Dick Hyman , Dick Wellstood , Mary Lou Williams, Alberta Hunter and Helen Humes have been released on vinyl. When the number of visitors fell noticeably in the early 1980s, the club was closed and reopened as a restaurant without music in 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} John S. Wilson: Cookery Reopening without Music (1984) in The New York Times
2. ^ New York Magazine July 23, 1979
3. ↑ New York Magazine June 12, 1972
4. ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz discography (online)