Klein's Show Bar

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Klein's Show Bar (also known as Klein's Showbar ) was a jazz club in Detroit in the 1950s.

The Klein's Show Bar in 8540 12th Street (after 1967 Rosa Parks Boulevard) on Detroit's West Side, operated by George Klein since the early 1950s , was, according to Bjorn and Gallert, with the Blue Bird Inn one of the well-known modern jazz venues in Detroit . The historically Jewish neighborhood of 12th Street was strongly Afro-American in the 1950s due to the influx of mainly black populations.

Yusef Lateef led the house band. There occurred u. a. Art Blakey , Kenny Burrell , Donald Byrd , Alice Coltrane , Tommy Flanagan , Chico Hamilton , Eric Dolphy , Frank Isola , Milt Jackson and Frank Rosolino (1954). In 1959, Klein sold the club to Al Mendelson, which was then called Club 12 Show Bar ; There then occurred even Miles Davis / John Coltrane , Thelonious Monk and Sonny Stitt on. According to Yusef Lateef, who dedicated his composition Yusef Lateef's 8540 12th Street to the club, Klein's Show Bar was "a place where a number of musicians and music lovers gathered to discuss the latest developments in politics and culture."

further reading

  • Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert: Before Motown - A History of Detroit Jazz 1920-1960 . University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robin Kelley: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original , p. 274
  2. ^ David Rosenthal: Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955-1965 , p. 95
  3. ↑ Interview with Art Blakey
  4. ^ Yusef Lateef took the composition in October 1957 for his album Jazz and the Sounds of Nature ( Savoy Records ); contributing musicians were Wilbur Harden , Hugh Lawson , Ernie Farrow and Oliver Jackson . See Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 13, 2013)
  5. ^ Yusef Lateef: The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef , p. 99