Jazz Gallery (1959)

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Jazz Gallery was a short-lived New York jazz club in the East Village (Manhattan) that was founded in 1959 and lasted until 1962. Alongside the Five Spot , The Half Note and Slug's Saloon, it was one of the well-known venues for avant-garde jazz in the early 1960s.

The jazz club Jazz Gallery (80 St. Mark's Place (8th Street), corner of 1st Avenue) was located in the Greenwich Village district of New York in a former 250-seat theater. It was run by brothers Joe and Iggy Termini, who also owned the nearby jazz club Five Spot . The Jazz Gallery opened in 1959 with a concert by pianist Horace Silver . There then u. a. Benny Golson ’s Jazztet (1959/60), the John Coltrane Quartet (with Steve Kuhn , Steve Davis and Pete LaRoca , in May / June 1960), Sonny Rollins , Ray Bryant , Betty Carter , Joe Williams (1961 with Harry Edison ) , Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk .

St. Marks Place (2010)

Gil Evans played in the Jazz Gallery in the fall of 1960 with his first own (live) orchestra; after the engagement he took the LP Out of the Cool for Impulse! Records on. Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln released their concept album We Insist! In the club in April 1961 . Freedom Now Suite . -In 1960 the Jazz Gallery premiered the play The Sandbox by Edward Albee . A number of photographs by Lee Tanner were also taken in the club . Lord Buckley made his last appearance there in 1960. Charles Mingus appeared in 1962 . In 1962 the club was closed and in the same year the nearby Five Spot of the Terminis also moved.

After the jazz club closed, the premises were Theater 80 ; there found u. a. 1967 the world premiere of the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown took place. At present (2014) is in the house in which u. a. and Leon Trotsky lived, the Museum The Exhibition of the American Gangster

Another jazz club of the same name was founded in New York City in 1995 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Lewis Porter , Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler: The John Coltrane Reference . 2013, p. 199
  2. Jason Weiss: Steve Lacy Conversations 2006, p. 161
  3. JC Thomas: Chasin the Trane . 2012
  4. ^ Billboard - Dec. 14, 1959 - page 20
  5. ^ Billboard - Nov. 13, 1961 - page 8
  6. Jazz Articles: Lost Jazz Shrines Concert Series: Remembering Jazz Forum, Jazz Gallery & Jazzmania - By Jeff Tamarkin - Jazz Articles
  7. Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir . 2011, page 23
  8. Stephanie Stein Crease: Gil Evans: Out of the Cool - His life and music . A Cappella Books / Chicago Review Press, Chicago 2002, ISBN 978-1-55652-493-6 .
  9. ^ Obituary in JazzTimes
  10. Trager, Oliver. Dig Infinity: The Life and Art of Lord Buckley , Welcome Rain Publishers (2002), hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 978-1-56649-157-0
  11. ^ Leroi Jones, New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz, Down Beat 1963, reprinted in Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Black Music, Akashic Books 2010
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