Hi-hat (boston)

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The Hi-Hat was a jazz club in Boston .

The Hi-Hat (566 Columbus Avenue, corner Massachusetts Ave. ) opened in 1937 and lasted until 1959 when the building was destroyed in a fire. The restaurant and nightclub with its Art Deco interior was one of the well-known nightclubs in Boston's South End , along with Wally's Paradise and the Savoy Club . There occurred u. a. Jazz and blues greats like Fats Waller , Lionel Hampton , Thelonious Monk (1944), Earl Bostic (1952, with John Coltrane ), Billie Holiday , BB King , Miles Davis , Duke Ellington , Sarah Vaughan , Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie on . Al Vega (piano), Jack Lawlor (bass) and Sonny Taclof (drums) played in the house band in the early 1950s .

In the course of its existence, a number of concerts have been recorded in the hi-hat and released on vinyl. a. also recordings by Serge Chaloff (1950), Lester Young ( Boston 1950 (Uptown), created 1950 and 1953), Stan Getz / Bob Brookmeyer (1952/53), Charlie Parker (1953/54) and 1954 by Sonny Stitt ( Live at the Hi-Hat , on Roulette Records ). Miles Davis appeared there in 1955, accompanied by the then house band, consisting of Jay Migliori , Al Walcott , Jimmy Woode and Jimmy Zitano . The hi-hat , along with Storyville and The Stable, was one of the city's central venues for early modern jazz and bebop . The Harriet Tubman House now stands on the site of the former nightclub .

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  1. ↑ Marc Mayers: Lester Young in Boston 1950 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzwax.com
  2. ^ Roger Bruns: Martin Luther King, Jr: A Biography . 2006, p. 23
  3. ↑ Hope J. Shannon: Legendary Locals of Boston's South End . 2014, p. 8
  4. ^ Thomas H. O'Connor: Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970 , 1995, p. 59
  5. ↑ See Brilliant Corners: A Bio-discography of Thelonious Monk . 2001, p. 340
  6. ↑ The John Coltrane Reference by Lewis Porter , Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler. 2013
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / coolculinaria.com
  8. ↑ Vladimir Simosko: Serge Chaloff: A Musical Biography and Discography. 1998, p. 62
  9. ↑ 1954 Parker u. a. accompanied by Jay Migliori (tenor saxophone), Herbie Williams (trumpet), Rollins Griffith (piano), Jimmy Woode (bass), Marquis Foster (drums).
  10. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 16, 2014)
  11. ↑ Review of Alex Henderson's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ http://journalism.emerson.edu/changingboston/south_end/
  13. ↑ http://artsfuse.org/67021/fuse-book-review-the-boston-jazz-chronicles/
  14. ^ Jean Gibran, Sylvia McDowell, Mary Howland Smoyer: Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-Guided Walks Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History . 2006, p. 81