Luckey's rendezvous
Luckey's Rendezvous was a New York jazz club that existed in the 1940s and 1950s and continued as St. Nick's Pub until 2011 .
Luckey's Rendezvous jazz club was located in Harlem, New York, at 773 St. Nicholas Avenue between 148th and 149th Street in the Sugar Hill District . It was created on the premises of the Poosepahtuck Club (named after a New York Indian tribe) that existed in the 1930s, where Joe Jordan was the house pianist and blues vocalist Monette Moore performed. The club was named after the Harlem Stride piano legend Luckey Roberts , who opened the club in 1940.
There then u. a. Art Tatum , Donald "The Jersey Rocket" Lambert and Marlowe Morris . The young saxophonist Sonny Rollins , who comes from the Sugar Hill district, made his first musical attempts there, as did Jackie McLean , Kenny Drew , Walter Bishop Jr. and Art Taylor .
The premises of the club, which in the meantime housed a bar called Pink Angel , were acquired in the early 1960s by Lillian Lampkin, who owned several liquor stores in Harlem, and finally renamed St. Nick's Pub . There occurred in the following years u. a. Frank Lacy , Olu Dara , Sarah Vaughan , James Carter , Bill Saxton , David Murray , Roy Hargrove , Cecil Payne , Wycliffe Gordon , Leon Thomas , Russell Malone , Olu Dara, Roy Ayers , and Wynton Marsalis . The album Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet around Patience Higgins was created in St. Nick's Pub in 1998 , with Hamiet Bluiett as a guest. In 2008 Salim Washington recorded the live album Live at St. Nick's there with his Harlem Arts Ensemble (including with Frank Lacy) . Vincent Lampkin took over the club in 2010 after the death of his mother, but had to close it in 2011 after he did not receive his own liquor license . The pianist Donald Smith gave the last concert in the club.
St. Nick's Pub with the Lenox Lounge was part of the revival of Harlem at the beginning of the 21st century.
The 1950 Charlie Parker album Live at St. Nick's was not made in the nightclub, but in the St. Nicholas Arena , a boxing ring on 66th Street.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Luckey Roberts portrait at ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. All about jazz
- ↑ Another popular club in the district was (Jimmie's) Chicken Shack , a jazz music restaurant located in the basement at 763 St. Nicholas Avenue. Charlie Parker worked briefly at Jimmy's Chicken Shack as a dishwasher shortly after moving to New York City in 1939; In the mid-1940s he lived with Miles Davis in a nearby apartment. See St. Nicholas Avenue, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan on Flickr
- ↑ Jim Santella: Salim Washington: Live at St. Nick's (2008) in All About Jazz
- ^ Frustration Builds Over Closed Harlem Nightspot (2012) in The New York Times
- ↑ Travis A. Jackson: Blowin 'the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene , p. 245.
- ↑ Charlie Parker Discography
