Jimmy Ryan's

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Tony Parenti and Wild Bill Davison , Jimmy Ryan's Club, circa August 1946. Photo: William P. Gottlieb
George Brunis and Tony Parenti at Jimmy Ryan's, around August 1946. Photo: Gottlieb

Jimmy Ryan’s was a jazz club in New York that existed between 1934 and 1983. It was initially one of the legendary jazz clubs on 52nd Street .

Live and act

Jimmy Ryan’s nightclub was owned by Jimmy Ryan (1911–1963) and his brother-in-law Matthew C. (Matty) Walsh (1914–2006). It was located at 53 West 52nd Street from 1934 to 1962 . When the building had to give way to the new CBS Building in 1962, CBS paid $ 9,000 in compensation to fund the club's move. The new address was 154 West 54th Street . When Ryan died in July 1963, Walsh continued to run the club alone.

The club was popular with fans of Dixieland jazz ; Jimmy Ryan's, along with Nick's in Greenwich Village and Eddie Condon's Club, was one of the central New York venues for traditional jazz. Musicians such as Sidney Bechet , Bud Freeman , Johnny Glasel , Marty Marsala , Freddie Moore , Hot Lips Page , Lloyd Phillips , Bob Wilber , Dick Wellstood and Sol Yaged performed in the club . From 1950 concerts a. a. Recorded by Sidney Bechet, Wilbur De Paris , Tony Parenti ( A Night a Jimmy Ryan’s , 1967, with Max Kaminsky ) and later released as a phonogram. The club closed in 1983.

Web links

Commons : Jimmy Ryan’s  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Crow : Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around . Oxford University Press , Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-518795-4 , p. 116.
  2. ^ Arnold Shaw: 52nd Street, The Street of Jazz. Da Capo Press, New York 1977, ISBN 0-306-80068-3 , p. 242.
  3. ^ John S. Wilson: Jimmy Ryan's, A Shrine to the Same Old Jazz. In: The New York Times , September 24, 1976.
  4. ^ Peter Clayton, Peter Gammond: Jazz AZ . Guinness Books, New York 1986, ISBN 0-85112-281-7 .
  5. ^ William P. Gottlieb : The Golden Age of Jazz . Pomegranate Communications, San Francisco 1995, ISBN 0-87654-355-7 , p. 13.
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 14, 2015)