Lennie's on the Turnpike
Lennie's on the Turnpike was a jazz club in Peabody (Massachusetts) near Boston , which existed from 1951 to 1971.
The club Lennie's on the Turnpike was founded in 1951 by Lennie Sogoloff on Route One in West Peabody, north of Boston. Sogoloff initially only set up a jukebox with jazz music before he presented live blues and jazz musicians from 1963. There played in the following years u. a. Artists like Jaki Byard , Charlie Byrd , Kenny Burrell , Al Cohn , Miles Davis , Art Farmer , Joe Farrell , Dizzy Gillespie , Benny Golson , Woody Herman , Earl Hines , Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Abbey Lincoln , Ronnie Mathews , Howard McGhee , Charles Mingus , Thelonious Monk , Charlie Musselwhite , Joe Newman , Sal Nistico , Buddy Rich , Jimmy Rushing , Charlie Shavers , Lucky Thompson , Pee Wee Russell , Zoot Sims , Sonny Stitt , Steve Swallow , Clark Terry , Muddy Waters and Phil Woods . Comedian Jay Leno also appeared in the opening act . House musicians were Kent Carter and Mike Nock for a number of years ; the drummer Alan Dawson played from 1962 to 1970 in the house band.
In 1965, Billboard Magazine named Lennie's on the Turnpike as the most important jazz club in town, alongside The Jazz Workshop and Conolly's Star Dust Room . The club enjoyed a high reputation among the musicians for its good acoustics . Several concerts recorded at the club also appeared as albums, including Booker Ervins and Jaki Byards recordings (1965) for Prestige Records and 1966 Go Power! of Illinois Jacquet with Milt Buckner and Alan Dawson. In 1971 the club had to be closed after a fire. Sogoloff then organized other jazz concerts at various venues in the city, and otherwise worked full-time as a businessman in Salem . Sogoloff, who died in 2014, bequeathed his collection of memorabilia to Salem State University , including a number of photos.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Portrait at NPR Jazz ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2012 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.
- ^ Ingrid Monson : Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction Chicago 1997, p. 226.
- ↑ See William Knoedelseder: I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era , p. 25, and Richard Zoglin: Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America 2008
- ↑ Karlton E. Hester: From Africa to Afrocentric innovations some call "jazz" , Volume 4. Hesteria Records & Pub. Co., 2000
- ↑ See International Jazz Federation, 1979, Jazz forum, Issues 57-62
- ^ Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz .
- ↑ Kerry Brown: Kind of Blue for Lennie's-On-The-Turnpike
- ^ Billboard, November 6, 1965
- ↑ See Peter Pettinger: Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (2002), p. 177.
- ↑ Photo series on Flickr
- ↑ Lennie Sogoloff, 90; ran legendary jazz club Lennie's-on-the-Turnpike - Obituary in the Boston Globe
