List of venues for jazz

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This list of jazz venues mainly includes historically important places, especially jazz clubs , but no jazz festivals. Larger general venues will only be accepted if they have become known through jazz recordings (for example: Jazz at Massey Hall or Gerry Mulligan's Pleyel Concert ). Some current jazz clubs are also listed if they have articles in Wikipedia or if they are more well-known jazz clubs in metropolises.

United States

Boston and the surrounding area

The facade of the Preservation Hall (2001)
The Hot Clube de Portugal is considered the oldest still existing jazz club in Europe
  • Connolly's Star Dust Room , Whittier Street, 1950-60s
  • Hi-Hat , the first club in Boston to play bebop, Charlie Parker closed radio transmissions here, some of which were recorded, in the 1950s
  • Lennie's on the Turnpike , a club north of Boston, in which jazz musicians, comedians such as Jay Leno and cabaret artists performed (1951–1972)
  • Lulu White's, Boston, 1970s, Free Jazz, Bop
  • Ryles, 212 Hampshire Street, Cambridge
  • Storyville (Boston) , 1950 to 1960s
  • The Jazz Workshop, Boston, 733 Boylston Street , 1964 to 1978. Among others, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis performed here. In the same building, Paul's Mall, which was more fusion, jazz rock and pop oriented. At the beginning of the 1960s a back room of The Spables club on Huntington Ave.
  • Regattabar , Cambridge, Massachusetts , at the Charles Hotel, also host a summer jazz festival
  • Wally's Cafe, Boston, founded in 1947 at the intersection of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues

Chicago

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
  • Athenia Café, where the Louisiana Five from New Orleans played in 1917
  • Apex Club, closed in 1920s, 1928, near the Sunset Café, where Jimmie Noone played
  • The Bamboo Room, 936 N. Rush St.Chicago, 1950s, played here a. a. Georg Brunis
  • The Beehive Lounge , opened in 1948. The following year Lester Young played here . Charlie Parker made his last appearance here in Chicago. There are live recordings by the Clifford Brown, Max Roach Quintet from 1955. Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Art Hodes , Baby Dodds , Doc Evans also played here
  • Beat Kitchen, 2010s, 2100 West Belmont, jazz and alternative rock
  • The Blue Note , 1940s, 1950s, etc. a. Muggsy Spanier, Sidney Bechet (1951). Count Basie played here regularly in the 1950s.
  • Butterfield Firehouse, Rte 56 1/2 mi. west of Rte. 83, Villa Park, venue of Tradjazz, u. a. Bob Scobey , Franz Jackson , Jack Teagarden , Muggsy Spanier
  • Cafe Continental, 44 E. Walton and Rush, 1050s, Bob Scobey, George Brunies
  • Café Logan, 915 E 60th, Free Jazz
  • Camel Gardens, 1920s
  • Clarite Club 2606 N. Clarke Street, 1950s / 60s
  • Club Basin Street 6971 N. Western Avenue Chicago, 1950s, Danny Alvin played here
  • Club DeLisa , 1933 to 1958
  • Coliseum, known for two Battle of the Bands in 1926, organized by the Okeh label (including Moten, Armstrong, Doc Cook, Clarence Williams, Carroll Dickerson, King Oliver, Erskine Tate).
  • Congress Hotel, where Fletcher Henderson , Benny Goodman and others played
  • Constellation, 2010s, 3111 North Western, 2010s
  • The Crown Propeller Lounge , early 1940s and again 1950s
  • Dixieland Lane in Orchard Twin Bowl, 9444 Skokie Blvd., 1940's
  • Dreamland Ballroom, this is where Doc Cook's band played in the 1920s
  • Elastic, 3429 W Diversey, 2010s, Free Jazz (including Dave Rempis , Frank Rosaly )
  • The Empty Bottle , improvisation music, series of events with John Corbett and also own festival
  • Friar's Inn , a nightclub and "gangster holdout" in 343 Wabash, where the New Orleans Rhythm Kings were founded in 1921 , New Friar's Inn, Wabash Ave., corner of Van Buren St.
  • Gaffer's Jazz Club, 60 E. South Water Street (between Michigan and Wabash), 1940's, Bud Freeman and Danny Alvin played here
  • Green Mill
  • Harlem Lounge, 3800 S. Harlem Avenue, 1950s
  • The Hideout
  • Hi Note, 450 N. Clark Street, 1940s
  • Hot Club of Chicago , Moose Lodge, 1016 N. Dearborn St., 1940s, Darnell Howard, Jack Teagarden, Roy Eldridge, Bunk Johnson, Bud Freeman, Albert Ammons, Jimmy Yancey, Jimmy McPartland
  • Hungry Brain, 2319 W Belmont. 2010s; Free Jazz (including Ken Vandermark , Terrie Ex )
  • Jazz Ltd. 11 East Grand Avenue, owned by Bill Reinhardt, founded in 1947, Trad-Jazz
  • The Jazz Showcase , founded in 1947 by Joe Segal, presents young talents, changing locations, in the 1970s at the Blackstone Hotel, still exists.
  • Kimball Hall, 306 S. Wabash, 1940s, Red Norvo, and Mezz Mezzrow performed here
  • Lincoln Gardens (from 1921, previously Royal Gardens, where the Original Creole Band played in 1918), large dance hall, from 1922 to 1924 King Oliver with his Creole Jazz Band. Reopened as New Charleston Café after a fire in 1925, then known as Café de Paris. Closed after a bomb attack in 1927.
  • Mother Blues, 1305 N. Wells Street, 1960s, Yusef Lateef, Bunky Green, Jay Peters, Harold Jones performed here
  • Mr Kelly's (or: Mister Kelly's) , 1950 / 60s
  • The Normandy Restaurant and Lounge, 1110 Lawrence Avenue (near Aragon), early 1950s
  • Offbeat (near Three Deuces), founded in 1939 by Carl Cons (the Downbeat editor)
  • Pekin Inn, even before 1910, ragtime, on the South Side
  • Pershing Hotel, with Pershing Lounge, Pershing Ballroom and El Grotto Restaurant, 1940s, 1950s, where Charlie Parker played in 1949/50 and Ahmad Jamal in the 1940s. Colored people were also allowed after the hotel itself became the property of colored people in the mid-1940s.
  • Plantation Café, opened in 1924, 338 East 35th Street, Black and tan Club. Heard of whites, partly influenced by Capone as a speakeasy. Here King Oliver played with his Dixie Syncopators.
  • Plugged Nickel, 1321 North Wells Street, in the 1960s (closed in the 1970s), famous recordings in 1956/66 with Miles Davis. Comeback of Gene Ammons in 1969. The name comes from small change (nickel, now 5 cents, formerly 1 or 3), of which metal was punched out inside in the hope that the shopkeeper would not notice.
  • Regal Theater, 4719 South Parkway Boulevard, from 1928 until the 1960s, large variety, decorated in an oriental style, where Josephine Baker, Armstrong, Ellington, Lunceford, Herman, Hampton, and later modern jazz played. From 1987 there was also a New Regal Theater in Chicago.
  • Rhumboogie Cafe , nightclub, 343 East 55th Street, Chicago, existed between 1942 and 1947.
  • Savoy Ballroom, South Parkway Boulevard / East 47th Street, founded in 1927 as Chicago's first large dance hall for African Americans. Mostly sporting events during the Great Depression . Carroll Dickerson's band (with Armstrong) and Fletcher Henderson's band played here in the 1920s. In the 1940s Ellington, Hines, Basie, Kenton, Herman, Gillespie and many others. Closed in 1948.
  • 7006 Club, 7006 North Glenwood Avenue, 1940s u. a. George Zack
  • Sunset Cafe , 1920s, 1930s, for colored and white audiences ( black and tan ), played here a. a. Louis Armstrong, renamed Grand Terrace after remodeling in 1937, where Earl Hines played (until 1938) and who was known for his shows. Closed in 1950.
  • Tom Tom Lounge 5413 Irving Park Rd., 1950s,
  • Three Deuces, 222 North State Street, 1920s, 1930s (named in a parody of Four deuces, one of the syndicate's largest brothels, after Mezz Mezzrow where the “Jam Sessions” originated), Art Tatum , Roy Eldridge and Baby Dodds played here in the 1930s , Johnny Dodds , Zutty Singleton , Jimmy McPartland , Danny Alvin and Phil Dooley in the 1940s
  • Twin Terrace Cafe, 3 North Clark St., 1940s, Bunk Johnson and Art Hodes played here
  • Vendome Theater, where Erskine Tate 's band played in the 1920s
  • Velvet Lounge , Fred Anderson's club , reopened after his death at 67 E. Cermak Rd. (From January 2012) Management: Bob Fioretti

Greater Chicago

  • Glenbard Firehouse, Highland & Roosevelt Rds, Lombard, Illinois
  • Glen Ellyn American Legion, Post 3, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
  • Hunt Club 6613-15 Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn Illinois, 1940s
  • Ray Colomb's Jazzville, USA, 2535 West 95th (near Western), Evergreen Park, Illinois, 1950s
  • Riverside-Brookfield HS, 1st & Forest Aves, Riverside, Illinois
  • The Saber Room of Dynell Springs, 8900 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, Illinois

Detroit

Vanity Ballroom Building
  • Arcadia Ballroom, Detroit, 1920s
  • Baker's Keyboard Lounge , founded in 1934 (which is why they call themselves worlds oldest jazz club ) - 20510 Livernois Street
  • Bert's Marketplace , 2728 Russell Street (Eastern Market), from the 1980s
  • Blue Bird Inn , 5021 Tireman Street, from the late 1940s
  • Club Plantation , 1930s-40s, 550 East Adams Street in Detroit's Paradise Valley entertainment district
  • Cobb's Corner , 4201 Cass Avenue (corner of W. Willis Street), circa 1980
  • Klein's Show Bar , 1950s
  • The Minor Key , early 1960s
  • Paradise Theater, 3711 Woodward Avenue, opened as an Orchestra Hall in 1919 and originally intended for the city's symphony orchestra. Earl Hines, Count Basie, Charlie Parker and others played here in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • Rouge Lounge , 1950s
  • Vanity Ballroom Building , 1024 Newport Street, at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue in the Jefferson-Chalmers Historic Business District . The building contains the last intact ballroom of the many dance palaces that existed in Detroit and where big bands performed from the 1930s to the 1950s .

Indianapolis

The Jazz Kitchen
  • Chatterbox – Jazz Club, Massachusetts Avenue in the Arts and Theater Cultural District of Indianapolis
  • The Jazz Kitchen , opened in 1994 in the former club The Place to Start , on the corner of 54th Street and College Avenue, in Indianapolis’s Broad Ripple Village.

Kansas City

Gem Theater (Kansas, 2005)

In the Pendergast years of the 1930s, several hundred nightclubs, around 30 of them with a significant jazz offer:

  • Cherry Blossom, 12th Street and Vine Street, from 1933, Moten / George Lee played there from 1933, later Count Basie and his Cherry Blossom Orchestra. Famous cutting contest December 1933 between Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Herschel Evans, Lester Young
  • Fairyland Park, in the dance pavilion in the park, many well-known bands played in the summer, such as those of Moten, Andy Kirk and Jay McShann
  • Lucille's Band Box, owner Miss Lucille from the late 1920s, Moten's Band Box Shuffle is named after the restaurant
  • Reno Club, 1930s, 12th Street (between Cherry and Locust Street), then the leading jazz club, with a big band and show, led by "Papa" Sol Epstein, who was part of the syndicate, for both blacks and whites (separately) . From here John Hammond transferred the recordings of the Count Basie Orchestra in 1936. Closed in 1938 due to tax problems.
  • Subway Club, 1930s, 18th Street and Vine Street, run by Piney Brown (owned by Felix Payne). Known for its jam sessions and by the jazz musicians for free drinks and food
  • Sunset (Sunset Crystal Palace), 12th Street and Woodlawn Street, 1930s, known for jam sessions, especially for saxophonists. Run by Piney Brown, a black man (owner was Felix Payne) with a weakness for jazz. Big Joe Turner was a blues shouter and barman. Pete Johnson was at the piano.

Los Angeles (metropolitan area)

  • The Baked Potato , from 1970, 3787 Cahuenga Blvd, Studio City
  • Billy Bergs (Billy Berg's Swing Club), Vine Street in Hollywood , especially 1940s. In addition to modern jazz (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie 1945) also swing, e.g. B. Lester Young in 1941 and Benny Carter with Big Band in 1943. This is where the official debut of the Louis Armstrong All Stars took place in 1947. Slim Gaillard performed here in 1945/46, Vic Dickenson in 1947/48 and Zutty Singleton in 1943, as well as many other jazz greats such as Billy Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Kid Ory, Howard McGhee, Boyd Raeburn. Before that, Berg had a jazz club in the Waldorf Cellar.
  • Montmartre Café, Hollywood Boulevard , 1920s, u. a. Paul Howards Quality Serenaders with Lionel Hampton
  • Cadillac Cafe, Central Avenue between 6th and 7th Street, from 1917 Jelly Roll Morton played here , who had shows with the singer Bricktop. One of the first hot jazz clubs in Los Angeles.
  • Calabassas Inn, Hollywood, 60s and 70s, house band was the trio of Joes Darensbourg.
  • California Club, Hollywood, 1950s
  • Carmelo's Jazz Club , 1960s to mid 1980s
  • Casa Blanca or Casablanca, Central Avenue, 1940s, run by guitarist Stanley Morgan. Charlie Parker played here. Bop and West Coast Jazz
  • Catalina Bar and Grill
  • Club Alabam, Central Avenue, Los Angeles founded by Curtis Mosby (drums) in the 1920s (as Apex Club), a particularly important jazz club in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Club 47, Ventura Boulevard , opened in the late 1940s by Nappy Lamare and Doc Rondo, jam sessions, meeting place for musicians
  • Cocoanut Grove, in the Ambassador Hotel , Wilshire Boulevard , from 1920's Jazz in the hotel's ball room. House band from 1924 to 1927 under the drummer Abe Lyman. Later more night club. Benny Goodman played here in the spring of 1940 and Billy Kyle in 1962.
  • Crescendo, Hollywood, founded by Gene Norman in the 1940s .
  • Down Beat Club, near Club Alabam, where Howard McGhee's bop band played in the 1940s
  • Finale Club, 1940s
  • The Haig , Wilshire Boulevard, in the 1950s, by John Bennett, musical. Head Richard Bock (co-founder of Pacific records), more of a kind of extended bungalow, only small combos, among others Red Norvo, Gerry Mulligan and many West Coast jazz musicians played here
  • Hollywood Bowl , Open Air Arena, Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts took place here as Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl (including 1956 Art Tatum). In 1959/60 the Los Angeles Jazz Festival and the Playboy Jazz Festivals took place here. There are also frequent jazz events.
  • Jazz Bakery , Culver City
  • Kimballs's East, allaboutjazz.com
  • La Ve Lee. 10351 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City.
  • Lighthouse Cafe , Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles Area, 1948 to 1970, but continues today. Several live albums from the 1950s with the Lighthouse All Stars. Directed by Howard Rumsey. A center of West Coast Jazz.
  • Philharmonic Auditorium, 1944 to 1946 venue of the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts by Norman Granz . The building, built in 1906 and the first large reinforced concrete building in Los Angeles (which also housed the Temple Baptist Church and was the venue for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra until 1964), was demolished in 1985. Today (2007) there is a parking lot there.
  • Palomar Ballroom, Los Angeles, Vermont Street, known for Benny Goodman's appearances, e.g. B. 1935. Burned down in 1939.
  • Plantation Club, Hollywood, in the 1940s big bands like Count Basie's.
  • Manne-Hole, from Shelly Manne in Hollywood, 1960-72 (only existed until 1974 after moving in 1972), Manne himself played here regularly with his band
  • Shrine Auditorium , Los Angeles, in 1947 one of Gene Norman's Just Jazz concerts and Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts took place here . Basie played here in 1952. Recordings with Getz in 1954.
  • Suzy-Q, late 1930s, 1940s, a. a. Red Callender, Jimmy Witherspoon.
  • Tiffany Club , Hollywood (near The Haig), 1950s a. a. Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Chet Baker
  • Trade Winds, Inglewood , 1950s (owner Harry Babasin )
  • Zardi's or Sardi's, Hollywood Boulevard, late 1940s, 1950s

New Orleans

Maple Leaf on Oak Street 2007
  • Artisan Hall, early 20th century, e.g. B. Sidney Bechet
  • Cadillac Club, where Willie Hightower and his band played in 1914/15 .
  • Fewclothes Cabaret, opened in 1902, Basin Street
  • Bienville Roof Gardens, on top of the Bienville Hotel, 1920s
  • Gypsy Tea Room, 1432 St. Anne Street, 1930s, e.g. B. Kid Rena 's band. Called itself Largest Nightclub of the South .
  • Halfway House, a dance hall halfway between Lake Pontchartrain and the city, founded in 1915 by the Rabinsteiner brothers. Abbie Brunies' band (Halfway House Orchestra, playing there until 1927) played here with Leon Roppolo in the 1920s . Jazz or dance music was only played here until 1930. It later became an ice cream parlor and, after World War II, the headquarters of a pest control company before it was damaged by fire in 1995. But it still exists (102 City Park Avenue).
  • Famous Door, a former Dixieland club, on the corner of Bourbon and Conti Str., The Dukes of Dixieland played here for a long time
  • Dixieland Hall, 522 Bourbon Street, closed in 1971. This is where Sweet Emma Barrett and Papa French recorded, among others .
  • Donna's, North Rampart Street
  • Eagle Saloon & Oddfellows Hall, Rampart Street at the corner of Perdido Street, a building from the 19th century that has been preserved and is a listed building, where the Eagle Band and Buddy Bolden played.
  • Fritzel's European Jazz Pub, Bourbon Street, founded in 1969 by Gunter Seutter.
  • Funky Butt, North Rampart Street, Modern Jazz, named after the Funky Butt Hall (late 19th / early 20th century), where z. B. Buddy Bolden played (later church, then demolished)
  • Louis Armstrong Park, Rampart Street, on the site of what was formerly Congo Square from the 19th century, the former meeting place for slaves in New Orleans
  • Lulu's White Mahagony Hall, Lulu White's exclusive brothel, where Jelly Roll Morton played as a pianist, demolished in the 1950s.
  • El Morocco, 200 Bourbon Street, Club des Dixieland Revival in the 1940s. George Lewis played there from 1949 to 1951.
  • The Maple Leaf Bar , founded in 1974
  • New Orleans Jazz Market, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, opened in 2015 with a 370-seat theater and the Bolden Bar, home of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
  • Paddock Lounge, from late 1940s to early 1950s, Bourbon Street
  • Pete Lala's Café , on the corner of Iberville and Marais Streets, Storyville, opened in 1907 by Clarence Williams , where Kid Ory played with King Oliver . Renamed Manhattan Cafe in 1916 after Williams left.
  • Preservation Hall , 726 St. Peter Street, French Quarter , since 1961
  • Snug Harbor , Frenchmen Street, Modern Jazz
  • Tin Roof Café (or Dance Hall). Exact location disputed. As a jazz venue until 1910, the Tin Roof Blues is named after her.

New York City

Manhattan

Apollo Theater in Harlem
Bob Haggart in front of Charlie's Tavern
The Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, New York City 2009
The Scheffel Hall, in which the Fat Tuesday's jazz club was located
Lincoln Center
Wilbur De Paris in front of the onyx, July 1947
The Roseland Ballroom in New York City
Outside the Village Vanguard in New York City 2009
  • Village Vanguard , Greenwich Village, 7th Avenue, oldest surviving jazz club in New York, founded in 1935 by Max Gordon.
  • Visiones , a jazz club in Greenwich Village in the 1980s and 1990s, where Maria Schneider's big band performed regularly from 1993 to 1998 . At the end of the 1990s he switched to funk / rhythm and blues.
  • Well's (or Well's Chicken and Waffles), Harlem, 1950s
  • West Boondock, 1970s
  • West End Cafe , 2911 Broadway, 1970s and 80s
  • Zinc Bar , 82 West 3rd Street
  • Zinno, 126 West 13th St. Cecil McBee , Marcus Belgrave , Kirk Lightsey played here.

Brooklyn

Greater New York

Philadelphia

  • Blue Note, this is where Charlie Parker played in 1954
  • Earle, 1950s, mainstream, bop, demolished today
  • Ortlieb's Jazz House
  • Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Showboat, 1409 Lombard Street, the premier jazz club in the 1950s. Psychiatric clinic in the 1990s.

San Francisco

Yoshi's interior hall in San Francisco 2009
Yoshi's interior hall in San Francisco 2009
  • Basin Street West , 401 Broadway, existed until 1973, initially a jazz club with performances by Anita O'Day , Woody Herman , Duke Ellington , Ramsey Lewis and, in 1971, Don Ellis , later increasingly rock music, R&B and soul ( Smokey Robinson and the Miracles , Ike and Tina Turner and Otis Redding )
  • Black Hawk , 1949-1963. The corner of Turk Street and Hyde Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Owner Guido Cacianti, with Johnny and Helen Noga. Mainly bop. Miles Davis recorded here in 1961. Art Tatum played here in 1955.
  • Blue Mirror, 1930 / 40s
  • Bop City , existed 1950-1965. 1690 Post Street in the Fillmore / Western Addition neighborhood. Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, John Coltran played here
  • Both And Jazz Club, 350 Divisidero Street. Existed from 1965 to 1972. Bop and Free Jazz, a. a. Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, and Wes Montgomery
  • Can-Do Club (1915 Fillmore), from 1940. Was called Minnie's Can-Do from the late 1960s and existed until 1975
  • Club Alabam (1820-A Post Street) 1930 / 40s
  • Club Hangover , 729 Bush Street, 1940s-1960s. Dixieland Revival (including Kid Ory, George Lewis), Earl Hines, Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Rushing, Joe Darensbourg.
  • Earthquake McGoon's (630 Clay Street), a club run by Turk Murphy and home to traditional jazz , existed from the 1940s to the early 80s; In addition to Turk Murphy and His San Francisco Jazz Band, Clancy Hayes , Kid Thomas Valentine / Captain John Handy , Alvin Alcorn and Punch Miller also performed there.
  • Elbo Room, Valencia Street, Mission District (Acid Jazz, Latin, Funk)
  • Elsie's Breakfast Club, 1930 / 40s
  • Favor, 1930 / 40s
  • Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrill Street. 1970s, 1980s. 1987 with his own label for live recordings in the club.
  • Half Note (628 Divisadero), Jazz and Funk, 1970s. The club switched to alternative music in the late 1980s and called itself VIS Club , then Kennel Club and Justice League .
  • The Jazz Workshop , Broadway, one of the most important modern jazz clubs on the West Coast in the 1950s and 1960s. John Coltrane played here in 1965; Cannonball Adderley recorded Cannonball Adderley Quintet here in San Francisco (1959).
  • Jack's Tavern (1931 Sutter St.), in the Fillmore district, from 1933, performances by the Saunders King Band
  • Jazz at Pearl's, Columbus Avenue, big band on Mondays, otherwise local musicians
  • Jupiter, in the Fillmore neighborhood, 1940s
  • Keystone Korner , San Francisco, Vallejo Street and Stockton Street, 1970 to 1980s. Founded in 1972. Art Blakey and Tete Montoliou recorded here. New Year's concerts were broadcast on the radio. Bill Evans gave one of his last concerts here. The Keystone Trio by John Hicks was named after the club .
  • Long Bar, 1930 / 40s, appearances a. a. by Ella Fitzgerald
  • New Orleans Swing Club, 1930s / 1940s
  • Pal's Rendezvous (298 Divisadero), 1970s
  • Purcell's, in the Fillmore neighborhood, 1940s
  • Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church , 1330 Fillmore Street at the corner of Divisadero St., in the Western Addition District
  • Texas Playhouse, 1940s
  • Webster, Post Street, 1940s
  • Yoshi’s , Oakland , Jack London Square, with an adjacent Japanese restaurant, one of the most famous jazz clubs in the Bay Area ; since 2007 with "branch" in SF, Fillmore St. (founded approx. 1977 by Kaz Kajimura, together with his wife Yoshi Akiba)

→ For the history of the clubs in San Francisco.

St. Louis

Blues Alley (Washington, DC) entrance from the street
  • Arcadia Ballroom, St. Louis, 1920s
  • Barrelhouse (or: Barrel ), 1940/50, St. Louis
  • Jazz clubs in the Gaslight Square entertainment district in the 1950s and 1960s: Traditional Jazz at Peacock Alley, Opera House, Bustles and Bows, Tiger's Den. Modern jazz at The Dark Side, The Other Side, Jogie's Hip Intertainment (at the Adams Hotel)
  • Jazz at the bistro. 3536 Washington Avenue
  • Sheldon Concert Hall

Washington DC

  • Blues Alley , Washington, DC ; Wynton Marsalis recorded Live at Blues Alley here in 1986 .
  • Bohemian Caverns , founded 1926 restaurant and jazz nightclub, 11th and U Steets, NW
  • The Cellar Door , 1965-1981
  • Kavakos, opened in the Prohibition period, with dancing, vaudeville and strippers, then a bar and grill (727 H Street NE) opposite the football stadium. In 1952, however, guests were needed when the local team played badly and concerts were organized, etc. a. with Charlie Parker 1953, Bud Powell 1953, Dizzy Gillespie (One night in Washington 1955). Drummer Joe Timer was the director of the orchestra, which was specially put together for this purpose. Soon after the Gillespie gig in 1955, the Kavakos closed.
  • Howard Theater , built in 1910 as a vaudeville venue, in the Black Broadway district at the corner of 7th and T-Street NW, performed here Duke Ellington , Ella Fitzgerald , Marvin Gaye , The Supremes and many other colored entertainers, victims of the neighborhood's decline and closed in 1980 . On the monument protection list since 1974. Reopened in 2012 after restoration by the Blue Note Group.

Other venues in the US

The Jazz Kitchen
  • Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, built in 1914 especially for a piano teacher with good acoustics, regular jazz concerts in the 1990s, a series of piano recordings for the Concord Jazz label
  • The Penthouse (Seattle) , on the first floor of the Kenneth Hotel at 701 1st Avenue, existed from 1962 to 1969
  • Sportsmen Lounge, Baltimore, peaked in the 1950s and 1960s when it belonged to colored football star Lenny Moore
  • Jazz Club CJ's Lounge, Pittsburgh, Penn Ave. / 29th Street in the Strip District
  • Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Seattle, founded in 1979
  • Firehouse 12, New Haven (Connecticut), founded around 2005 (see also Firehouse 12 Records )

Australia

  • Sydney Jazz Club, from 1953

Belgium

  • Sounds Jazz Club. Tulpstraat / Rue de la Tulipe, 28 1050 Brussels. founded in 1986 by Sergio Duvalloni and Rosy Merlini

Germany

Southern Germany

Munich

The tarantula in Munich (1963)
  • Hot Club , Munich (Schwabing), 1950-1964. World stars like Benny Goodman appeared here without a fee, memberships were limited to 1000 pieces.
  • Tarantel , Munich (Schwabing), until 1964. Jazz greats such as Nat Adderley, Lucky Thompson and Stan Getz played here.
  • Nachteule , Munich (Schwabing), until 1964. Like the tarantula, one of the most important pillars of modern jazz in Munich.
  • Domicile , Munich (Schwabing), 1965–1981
  • Jazzclub Unterfahrt , Munich, today Einsteinzentrum, since 1978
  • Alabama Hall, Munich
  • Theater factory , Unterföhring
  • Jazzbar Vogler, Munich
  • Hotel Bayerischer Hof (Munich) , Night Club, in July Jazz Summer in the Bayerischer Hof , the continuation of the Munich Piano Summer .

Stuttgart

  • BIX Jazz Club Stuttgart
  • Atlantic Jazzclub in Stuttgart, 1960s
  • Old rifle house in Stuttgart-Heslach, today Buddha Lounge
  • Dixieland Hall (im Ketterer), today Traditional Jazz Hall

Other cities and regions

Jazzkeller Frankfurt: Thomas Heidepriem and Martin Standke from the Natalya Karmazin Trio

West and Central Germany

Hessen, Thuringia

Jazz in the Palmengarten : Oldest jazz open air series in the world

North Rhine-Westphalia

East Germany

Bin in Dresden (1981)

Saxony

  • Jazzclub Tonne , Dresden, since 1990
  • Blue Note Jazzclub & Bar, Dresden, since 1997, concerts almost every day

Berlin and the surrounding area

In addition to general event centers such as Tempodrom , House of World Cultures , ICC :

Northern Germany

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

  • Jazzclub Rostock , since 2003
  • Culture prison window Brüel , since 2010
  • Jazz in the Grundvighaus Sassnitz

Hamburg

  • Factory (Hamburg)
  • Onkel Pö , Hamburg, 1970–1985
  • Jazz club in Stellwerk , Hamburg-Harburg, since 2005
  • Jazzhouse, Brandstwiete, opened in August 1966 with a concert by Albert Mangelsdorff, Modern Jazz, called Knust from 1976 and turned towards pop; from 2015 jazz again
  • Box, Hamburg, 50er, Spitalerstrasse, was renamed Tabu and later Pigalle. Here u played a. Hans Koller, Johannes Rediske, George Maycock and, on June 30, 1954, musicians of the Woody Herman Band. Woody Herman and his arranger Ralph Burns were presented with a certificate, which is not known.
  • Barrett, Hamburg, 50s, 60s, Colonnaden, played here a. a. Wolfgang Schlueter, Michael Naura
  • River Kasematten, St.-Pauli-Hafenstrasse
  • Galerie Zwo Vier, Hamburg, Mittelweg 24, 1950s, 1960s. B. Attila Zoller
  • Cotton Club , Großneumarkt, Hamburg, since 1959 (at a different location than Vati's Tube Jazzclub), stronghold of Dixieland, also blues, swing, operator since 1961 W.-Dieter Roloff. Oldest still existing jazz club in Hamburg.
  • Birdland , Gärtnerstraße, Hamburg, between 1985 and 2013 and again from 2014
  • Mojo Club
  • Hall424

Hanover

The Hanover Jazz Club is located in the basement

Other cities and regions

  • Lila Eule , Bremen, since 1959 (today only occasionally jazz)
  • Jazz Club Minden , today Weingarten Education Center, since 1953
  • Riverboat, Lübeck , from 1956, built in Holland in 1942 as a reinforced concrete ship for the invasion of England, then a grain store, refugee accommodation, etc. a, before it became a jazz club at the berth at the Puppenbrücke, since 1978, with interruptions, a discotheque, first at the Holstentorbrücke, later moved to the Klughafen.
  • Jazzclub Nienburg from 1957 e. V.

France

Sunset / Sunside (Paris, 2008)
Duc des Lombards (Paris)
Le Caveau de la Huchette 2011

Paris

  • Les Ambassadeurs, Paris, Avenue Gabriel 1, 1920s, 1930s, in addition to jazz, other popular music and revues. Jet set meeting point. Sam Wooding, Paul Whiteman, Noble Sissle played here.
  • Le Baiser Salé, rue de Lombards, founded in 1983
  • Blue Note (Paris) , Rue d'Artois 27, 1958 to 1968, directed by Ben Benjamin
  • Le Boeuf sur le Toit , Paris, 1920s to 1950s, moved several times in the 7th and 8th arrondissement. Founded in 1921 by Louis Moyses. Meeting point for artists such as Jean Cocteau, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie. Benny Carter and Django Reinhardt played here in the 1930s.
  • Bricktop's, Paris, 1930s, directed by singer Ada Smith (known as Bricktop). Ada Smith founded nightclubs under the same name in Biarritz (1932 only), New York, Rome (1951, closed 1964) and Mexico City.
  • Club St.Germain, Paris, from 1948, Rue St.Benoit 13, u. a. Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Miles Davis, Kenny Clarke, known from the existentialist scene of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • Embassy Club, Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1920s (Sam Wooding, Paul Whiteman), 1930s.
  • Le Chat Qui Pêche, Paris, 1950s to 1970, cellar restaurant on Rue de la Huchette in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine, belonged to Madame Ricard. Today in the same place a restaurant of the same name. Donald Byrd recorded here in 1958 and many jazz greats have played here, including Bud Powell, Chet Baker, Oscar Pettiford, Lucky Thompson, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin and Eric Dolphy.
  • Le Vieux Colombier, from 1951 to the 1970s
  • Les Trois Mailletz, from 1953
  • Salle Pleyel , Paris
  • Olympia , Paris, Boulevard des Capucines, where main acts perform, a. a. Armstrong, Bechet.
  • Le Caveau de la Huchette , Paris, Latin Quarter, founded in 1946
  • New Morning , Paris, Petits Ecuries, largest club, 500 seats, also world music, Latin music and others, from 1980s
  • Le Duc des Lombards , Paris, rue de Lombards, founded in 1984
  • Petit Opportun, Paris
  • Sunset / Sunside , Rue des Lombards, Paris, founded in 1983
  • Le meringue salé, rue de Lombards
  • Jazz Club Étoile, Hotel Méridien Étoile, Boulevard Gouvion-Saint Cyr, founded in 1976 by the jazz drummer and comedian Mustache (1929–1987), was formerly known as the Jazz Club Lionel Hampton

Swing bars in Paris

With Gypsy Jazz (Jazz Manouche)

  • La Chope des Puces (Espace Django Reinhardt), 122 rue Rosiers, 93400 Saint Ouen; near the flea market. Django Reinhardt used to have his caravan not far from here.
  • Bouquet du Nord (near Gare du Nord ), 85, rue de Maubeuge; Stephane Grappelli used to live across the street.
  • La Chope de Château Rouge, Montmartre , 40 rue de Clignancourt, 75018 Paris;
  • La Locandiera, 145 rue Oberkampf, 75011 Paris.
  • L'atelier Charonne, opened in 2008 in the Bastille district, 21 rue Charonne, 75011 Paris
  • Clarion de Chasseurs, Montmartre. 3 Place du Tertre, 75018 Paris

Great Britain

London

100 club
Ronnie Scott's (2005)
  • Cafe Oto
  • Club Eleven , Windmill Street (then Carnaby Street), London, it existed 1948-1950, Ronnie Scott and John Dankworth played early British bebop here. Recipient of the Blue Plaque at the Brecon Jazz Festival 2009 as a historic venue for jazz in England.
  • Buckingham Palace : relevant as a venue for jazz musicians between 1919 and 1932; first the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) played there and Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong also played for royal audiences. Recipient of the blue plaque.
  • 100 Club or 100 Oxford Street, Oxford Street , from 1942 (there was previously a dance hall), then Feldman Swing Club. First, the cellar was rented by Joseph Feldman as a venue for his jazz-playing sons and played swing music until 1954. From the beginning of the 1950s, the London Jazz Club (existed until 1958) and the Humphrey Lyttelton Club also had sessions. From 1958 called "The 100". 1959 Jazz shows Jazz Club by Ted Morton. From 1964 100 Club (with its own newsletter). Then opening to the blues and also to modern jazz, then rock music (mainly since the mid-1970s). Received blue plaque
  • Kit Kat Club, Haymarket, During the 1920s and 1930s. Ellington, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway (1934) played here.
  • Marquee Club , from 1958. Oxford Street, from 1964 Wardour Street. Traditional and mainstream jazz, also blues (Alexis Korner et al.) And in the second half of the 1960s hardly any jazz, but rock and blues.
  • Klooks Kleek from 1961 to 1970. First modern jazz on Wednesdays; especially interesting for blues rock .
  • Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , in Soho since 1959, now 47 Frith Street. Received blue plaque.
  • The Bull's Head , London, Lonsdale Road, from 1960 under Albert Tolley, Modern Jazz, recipient of the Blue Plaque.
  • Hippodrome at the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square. Received blue plaque. Numerous appearances by artists since Charlie Chaplin. 1919 first jazz music in Great Britain with the ODJB.
  • Jazz Cafe, Parkway, Camden Town, London, founded in 1992
  • Vortex Jazz Club , Dalston
  • Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, Soho
  • 606 Club, Chelsea
  • Hammersmith Palais, existed from 1919 to 2007. Known primarily for rock and pop music concerts. Received blue plaque.

Otherwise

  • Band on the Wall in Manchester, Swan Street, George and Dragon Pub from the 19th century, converted into a jazz club in 1975, where many punk bands played in the late 1970s and 1980s. Reopened in 2009 as a jazz club after renovation. Recipient of the blue plaque.
  • The Perch in Binsey , a pub in an 800-year-old building, a jazz venue for Oxford students from 1928 to 1948, reopened as a pub in 2008 after being damaged by fire. Recipient of the blue plaque.
  • The Old Duke , King's Street in Bristol , pub from 1775, home of New Orleans jazz, blues and more. One of the recipients of the blue plaque.
  • Concorde Club , in Eastleigh , Stoneham Lane, founded in 1957, making it the oldest originally owned and still active jazz club in Great Britain (founded by jazz drummer Cole Mathiesen). It was then in the Bassett Hotel Pub in Southampton . Manfred Mann, Eric Clapton and others also played here in the early 1960s, when they were still unknown, and jazz musicians like Coleman Hawkins. At the present location since 1970. Recipient of the Blue Plaque.
  • Four Bars Inn , Cardiff jazz club founded in 1987 by Jed Williams (founder of the Brecon Jazz Festival) . Today Dempsey's. Received blue plaque.
  • The Termite Club , Leeds
  • The Jazz Bar (Edinburgh, Chambers Street), from 2005

Italy

  • Casa del Jazz , Rome
  • Jazz Club Firenze , Florence
  • Blue Note, Milan
  • Alexanderplatz, Rome, Via Ostia, is the oldest jazz club in Italy and organizes an annual Roma Jazz Festival
  • La Palma, Rome
  • Cantina Bentivoglio, Bologna
  • La Salumeria della Musica, Milan
Shinjuku Pit Inn

Japan

  • Alfie Jazz House, Tokyo, Roppongo District
  • Blue Note, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, opened in Tokyo in 1988, part of the chain of jazz clubs of the same name. a. Live albums by Toshiko Akiyoshi ; 300 seats
  • Cotton Club, Tokyo, founded in 2005, second floor of the Tokyo skyscraper, also Latin, World Music etc. a., 180 seats, with a French restaurant
  • Tokyo TUC, Tokyo Uniform Center
  • Blues Alley, Tokyo
  • Cygnus, Tokyo
  • Diamond Club, Tokyo
  • Jazz spot intro, Tokyo, bar with jam sessions Saturday night, also with amateur musicians (the owner himself sometimes performs with alto saxophone)
  • Satin Doll, Tokyo
  • Sometime (Piano Hall Sometime), founded in 1975, in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo and much attended by students, there is no stage, the musicians play in the center of the bar
  • Pit Inn (Shinjuku Pit Inn), Tokyo, traditional jazz club in Tokyo since the 1970s. Mostly mainstream jazz, with local musicians regularly including Sadao Watanabe and Yosuke Yamashita . It appeared u. a. Live recordings by the Manhattan Jazz Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra and Elvin Jones
  • Sonoka, Tokyo
  • Valentine, Tokyo

Canada

Former Colonia Tavern, Toronto

Netherlands

Music building on the IJ with Bimhuis

Austria

Zeena Parkins April 2008 at Jazzit Salzburg
  • Atrium, Vienna
  • Cafe Landtmann, Vienna, had jazz in its basement as early as the 1940s
  • Gmoa Keller, Vienna, played here in the 1970s Zawinul, Fatty George, seat of the Hot Club de Vienne
  • Ulrichsberg jazz studio
  • Jazzland , Vienna, founded in 1972
  • Josefinum, Vienna, founded by the Austrian Jazz Federation.
  • Birdland , Vienna, between 2004 and 2008
  • Porgy & Bess , Vienna
  • Royal Garden Jazz Club, Graz
  • Jazzclub Lustenau, Lustenau, founded in 1975
  • Jazzit , Salzburg
  • Jazzkeller Krems
  • Riverboat, Vienna
  • Tabarin, Vienna, Annagasse 3 (renamed Tenne from 1963), here Fatty George played with his Two Sounds Band in the 1950s, in which Karl Drewo and Zawinul also played (hardbop) in 1956/7
Tygmont Jazz Club

Poland

Portugal

In the old Hot Clube de Portugal
In Ondajazz (Lisbon)

Russia

  • Molodeschnoe ("Jugendcafe"), Moscow near Gorkistraße, jazz café, founded in 1961
  • Aelita, Jazzcafé, Moscow, in Karetnyi riad, 1960s
  • Le Club, Moscow, founded in 1999. Conducted by tenor saxophonist Igor Butman (* 1961), who has also organized the Moscow Triumph of Jazz Festival since 2000.

Switzerland

Mühle Hunziken: location of numerous HatHut albums
  • Isebähnli (Baden)
  • The Bird's Eye (Basel)
  • BeJazz (Bern)
  • Marians Jazzroom (Bern)
  • La Spirale (Friborg)
  • AMR (Geneve)
  • Chorus (Lausanne)
  • Jazz in Bess (Lugano)
  • Jazz Club (Lucerne), since 1949
  • Hunziken Mill (Rubigen)
  • Theater am Hechtplatz (Zurich, occasional jazz concerts since 1963, especially in the Rogner era )
  • Bacillus (Zurich)
  • Multi-track music club (ZHdK) (Zurich)
  • Moods (Zurich)
  • Red Factory (Zurich)

Spain

  • Cafe Central, Madrid
  • Jambore, Barcelona, ​​50s and 60s
  • Harlem Jazz Club, Barcelona

Scandinavia

  • Gyllene Cirkeln , Stockholm, 1962–1967
  • Jazzhus Montmartre , Copenhagen, 1959 and 1961 to 1995. In 2010 a club of the same name was reopened at the old location (Store Regnegade).
  • Copenhagen Jazz House, Niels Hemmingsens Gade 10, since 1991
  • Fasching, Kungsgatan 63, Stockholm, founded in 1977
  • Amalienborg Jazzhus (later Oslo Jazzhus), Oslo , from 1973 until 1996. First known as Amalienborg Jazzhus in the Musikhaus (Musikens Hus) in Toftes Gate, then Arbeidergata 2, popularly known as Malla (1973-1984). Then moved several times, in 1994 to the Smuget (Culture House), in 1994 to the former Bergen chocolate factory in the Rodeløkka district. Was then received for financial reasons, but was partly continued in the club scene Blue (Klubbscenen Blå) from 1998.
  • Club 7, Oslo, 1963 to 1985, alternative cultural center, founded by Hungarian actors Attila Horvath and Odd Schou. Moved several times, first to Drammesveien, then Edderkoppen Theater, Restaurant Kongen, from 1971 Oslo Konzerthaus.
  • Jazz Alive, Oslo, existed in the 1980s and was then a replacement for Club 7 in the jazz scene, and Rock Alive from 1987.
  • Penguin Club, Oslo, 1952 to 1972, founded by vibraphonist Terje Kjaer, Karin Krog made her debut here in 1955, recordings with Sonny Clark in 1954, Barney Kessel in 1953. Pop from 1960s.
  • Kampenjazz, founded in the Kampen district of Oslo in 2000, part of the Oslo Jazz Festival, supported by the Norsk Jazzforum and state funding for culture.
  • Storyville Jazz Club, Molde, organizes Molde Jazz Festival.
  • Blå, Oslo, Brennerieveien 9c, in a former factory

South Africa

  • Green Dolphin, Cape Town
  • Kippie's, Johannesburg (named after the saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi )

Czech Republic

  • Reduta, Prague, founded in 1958
  • Divadlo 29 (Pardubice)
  • Jazz Club Solnice (Ceske Budejovice)
  • Divadlo Theater (Louny)
  • Tangens Jazz Club (Pardubice)
  • RW Cafe (Pisek)
  • Stara Pekarna (Brno)
  • Divadlo Drak (Hradec Králové)
  • Jazz Tibet Club (Olomouc)
  • Koruna cinema (Břeclav)
  • Stolarna (Frýdek-Místek)
Vortex Jazz Club at Dalston Culture House, October 2005
The 39 in Praça da Alegria (watercolor by Elsa Canavarro)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gary Burton Interview at Jazzwax.com ' (accessed July 28, 2010)
  2. ↑ Lexicon of historic jazz venues in New Orleans, Hurricane Brass Band ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hurricanebrassband.nl
  3. ^ New York Magazine Sept. 25, 1989
  4. ^ New York Magazine Dec. 13, 1976
  5. ^ New York Magazine March 10, 1975
  6. ^ Event announcement in The New York Times (1986)
  7. ↑ New York Magazine July 4, 1977
  8. ^ Bob Shields: Bartender & Manager - Sylvia Levine talks with former bartender and manager in JazzTimes
  9. ↑ New York Magazine July 23, 1990
  10. ^ New York Magazine, April 1, 1974
  11. ^ New York Magazine April 15, 1974
  12. ↑ New York Magazine, May 4, 1987, Volume 20, No. 18, p. 70; see also Gary Giddins : Visions of Jazz: The First Century , p. 368.
  13. ↑ Marsha McCreadie: All That Jazz Has Gone Away (2015)
  14. ↑ a b The New Yorker , 1990, Volume 66, Page 9 1990
  15. ↑ The Crisis Nov. 1985, p. 442
  16. ↑ Quincy Troupe : James Baldwin: The Legacy , 1989, p. 65
  17. ↑ Swing the Fillmore - A look back at San Francisco's bebop era by The Fillmore's associate producer Elizabeth Pepin
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  20. ↑ a b Jörg Lichtinger: Foot warmer and bone shaker: The Munich Dixieland movement. In: Jazz newspaper . February 2007, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  21. ^ Jazz Lev eV
  22. ↑ Ron Simmonds ( Memento of the original from April 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzprofessional.com
  23. ↑ Ron Simmonds on the jazz clubs in Berlin around 1964 ( Memento of the original from April 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzprofessional.com
  24. ^ Gerhard Winter: Jam session in the "Box" . In: Hamburg school newspaper 1954 . Hamburg student parliament.
  25. ↑ Parasites of the Jazzkeller . In: Hans-Heinrich Muchow Sexual maturity and social structure of youth , rororo 1959
  26. ↑ Jazz in Hamburg
  27. ↑ Historic jazz clubs in Austria ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzinaustria.at