Michael's Pub

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Michael's Pub was a New York restaurant and venue for jazz music that existed from the 1970s to the 1990s and was best known for the long-standing appearances of Woody Allen as a jazz clarinetist .

history

The restaurant and bar was in Midtown Manhattan (211 East 55th Street) in The Hawthorne, built in 1959 (currently an apartment complex); Gilbert Wiest was the managing director. Woody Allen played there with his septet from 1972. From the 1970s onwards, jazz musicians such as Red Norvo , Terry Gibbs and Teo Macero , pianists such as Mike Longo , Stan Freeman , Barbara Carroll , Hank Jones , Red Norvo, Joe Bushkin , Earl Hines and George Wein , and the singers Barbara Cook performed there , Marlene VerPlanck , and Joya Sherrill . Bassist Milt Hinton was the house musician in the 1970s, accompanying soloists such as Teddy Wilson , Bobby Hackett and Joe Venuti .

In Michael's Pub , recordings of performances by Dave McKenna ( Cookin 'at Michael's Pub ), Jonathan Schwartz ( New Sun in the Sky (1979), with Bernie Privin ), Anita Ellis ( Echoes , with Urbie Green , Dick Hyman , Tony Mottola , among others ) were made , Victor Feldman , George Duvivier , Bobby Rosengarden ), Dick Hyman and Roger Kellaway ( Live at Michael's Pub , 1981), Jackie Cain / Roy Kral ( A Stephen Sondheim Collection , 1982), Mel Tormé ( The Great American Songbook , 1992). In 1996, the club moved to the Parker Meridien Hotel , where Woody Allen's New Orleans Funeral & Ragtime Orchestra continued to perform; later he played at the Carlyle Hotel.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Magazine May 27, 1996
  2. ^ Billboard July 6, 1974, p. 15
  3. ^ A b New York Magazine Sept. 11, 1972
  4. ↑ Woody Allen's Jazz Band Returns to the Carlyle Hotel for 2013 at The Woody Allen Pages
  5. ^ New York Magazine Jan. 26, 1976, p. 21
  6. ^ New York Magazine Sept. 29, 1980
  7. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .
  8. ^ New York Magazine Jan. 8, 1973
  9. ^ New York Magazine Feb. 10, 1975
  10. ^ New York Magazine Jan. 26, 1976, p. 21
  11. ^ New York Magazine Jan. 12, 1976
  12. ^ New York Magazine March 11, 1974
  13. ^ New York Magazine March 10, 1975
  14. ^ New York Magazine Feb. 10, 1986
  15. ^ New York Magazine March 24, 1980
  16. ↑ New York Magazine May 21, 1979
  17. ^ Dan Morgenstern : Living with Jazz: A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer
  18. ↑ Dave Thompson: Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide . 2016, p. 292
  19. ↑ An evening with Woody at Traveler.com