Le Caveau de la Huchette

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Le Caveau de la Huchette (2011)

Le Caveau de la Huchette is a jazz club in the Latin Quarter in Paris located on Rue de la Huchette. 5 Founded in 1946, it is considered the oldest jazz cellar in Europe.

history

The basement of the building has served as a meeting place for the Rosicrucians since 1551 ; In 1772 a Masonic lodge was established there . Secret trials were carried out there during the French Revolution .

After the end of the Second World War, a club was built in the basement of the building, in which numerous well-known American and European jazz musicians performed, such as Lionel Hampton , Count Basie , Art Blakey , Memphis Slim , Bill Coleman , Sweets Edison , Rhoda Scott , Maxim Saury , Claude Luter , Jean-Christian Michel , Georges Arvanitas , Claude Bolling , Wild Bill Davis , Marc Laferrière or Boris Vian . A few feature films were also made in the cellar. Since 1970 Le Caveau de la Huchette has belonged to jazz musician Dany Doriz .

Films made in the basement

Discography

  • Raymond Fonsèque Original Band Ambiance Ragtime au caveau de la huchette (President ≈1970)
  • Alton Purnell , Les Haricots Rouges Caldonia Live 1974 (Pragmaphone 1975)
  • Les Haricots Rouges Avec Louis Nelson et Barry Martin (Memories 1978, rec. 1975)
  • Wild Bill Davis & Dany Doriz Live from the Caveau de la Huchette - Paris 1977 (Laserlight 1977 with Stéphane Guérault, Dave Pochonet and Maurice Martin and Kenny Clarke )
  • Bill Coleman & Dany Doriz Cave's Blues: Bill Coleman Meets Dany Doriz au Caveau de la Huchette (Jazzmosphere 1979)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Dany Doriz & Christian Mars, présenté par Cabu , 60 ans de jazz au caveau de la Huchette , Paris, Archipel, 2008, ISBN 978-2-8098-0033-3
  2. Sophie Barron pour l'Action artistique de la ville de Paris, Le 5th arrondissement: Itinéraires d'histoire et d'architecture , Paris, Mairie de Paris, Direction générale de l'information et de la communication, Paris en 80 quartiers , 2000 , P. 133
  3. Julie Ejzenberg, Claire Delbos, Marion Grégoire, Michel Doussot, Coline Lemeunier, Olivier de Puineuf, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias, Valérie Kuhn, Delphine Cohen & Dany Ygouf, Paris 2010 , Les Nouvelles Éditions de l'université, 2009, P. 158
  4. Blaise de Chabalier, L'esprit rive gauche , Le Figaro , February 7-8, 2015, p. 34.
  5. reissued as Wild Bill Davis Swing & Shout on EMI

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 10 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 47"  E