Metropolis Cafe
The Metropole Cafe was a New York jazz club from the 1950s and early 60s. Located at 725 7th Avenue at the corner of West 48th Street, it was a venue mostly for traditional jazz and swing.
history
The Metropole Cafe was an event venue in Manhattan as early as the 1940s ; In 1944 u. a. the singer Blanche Davenport on. From the mid-1950s it became a well-known jazz club that existed until 1965. The house band was led by Red Allen from 1954 . In the Metropole Cafe , u. a. Jazz musicians like Roy Eldridge , Coleman Hawkins , Cozy Cole , Charlie Shavers , Zutty Singleton , Claude Hopkins , JC Higginbotham , Tony Scott , Max Kaminsky , Dick Wellstood and Buster Bailey . The club near Broadway had a long bar near the front and the musicians played on a podium inside the bar.
In the Metropole Cafe “six different jazz bands performed in one day, two in the afternoon, two at night on the ground floor and another two on the first floor, which was called the Modern Jazz Room ,” recalled Mike Longo , who was there with a touring band around 1960 Salt City Six had an engagement and was resident pianist from 1960–62. The last concert before the club closed in June 1965 was given by Gene Krupa and Mongo Santamaría . In the metropolis Cafe concert recordings emerged u. a. by Red Allen with Cozy Cole and Charlie Shavers , and by Lionel Hampton , Gene Krupa and Sol Yaged .
The facade of the club with the large neon lighting has been photographed frequently (by Sepp Werkmeister, among others ) and can also be seen in the comedy Ein seltsames Paar (1968) with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau . The club is not to be confused with the bar and café of the Hotel Metropole ( Broadway , corner of West 42nd Street ), which stood there in the first half of the 20th century.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. u. a. Lawrence R. Samuel: New York City 1964: A Cultural History , 2014, p. 16.
- ^ Billboard Oct. 14, 1944
- ^ The Grove Dictionary of Jazz. St. Martin's Press, p. 897
- ↑ Memories of Jack Rothstein
- ↑ Mike Longo New York History ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ http://www.jazzbeat.com/assets/MikeLongoResume.pdf
- ^ Goings on About Town , The New Yorker Magazine archives, 1965
- ↑ Metropole Cafe at Discogs
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 31, 2015)
- ↑ Street photography by Sepp Werkmeister - Splendor and misery of New York in Süddeutsche Zeitung (2015)
- ↑ http://www.themoviedistrict.com/the-odd-couple/ The Odd Couple (1968) Filming Locations
- ↑ Information about the Hotel Metropole
