Mikell's
Mikell’s was a New York jazz music venue that existed from 1969 to 1991.
history
Mikell’s was run by Mike Mikell and Pat Mikell. The venue was known for the numerous jam sessions for New York studio musicians . Paul Shaffer , the bandleader on the Late Show with David Letterman , called Mikell's “ soul heaven ”.
The Mikell's with English Pub atmosphere was in the district Upper West Side of New York district of Manhattan (760 Columbus Avenue at 97th Street), near the Columbus Square. Jazz musicians such as Richard Davis , Cornell Dupree , Joe Farrell / Joe Beck , Chico Hamilton , Roy Haynes , Robin Kenyatta , Junior Mance and the singer Queen Esther Marrow performed there from the early 1970s . Milt Jackson , Ray Brown , Cedar Walton , Mickey Roker , and Paquito D'Rivera also played there in the 1980s .
In the Mikell's resulting recordings of performances by John Tropea ( Live at Mikell's (1980)), u. a. with Jon Faddis , Randy Brecker , Lew Soloff , Lew Del Gatto , Ronnie Cuber and Don Grolnick and by Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers ( New York Scene (1984)) with Terence Blanchard , Donald Harrison , Jean Toussaint , Mulgrew Miller , Lonnie Plaxico were released as an album. Blakey used Mikell’s as a rehearsal room.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jon Pareles, "Mike Mikell, 80, Owner of an Influential R&B and Jazz Club, Dies," in: New York Times , Nov. 21, 2005.
- ^ A b Jon Pareles, "For a Night, the Sweet Sounds of Mikell's," in: The New York Times , January 24, 2004
- ^ New York Magazine , Apr. 23, 1979
- ^ New York Magazine , Sept. 11, 1972
- ^ New York Magazine , March 24, 1975
- ^ New York Magazine , Nov. 26, 1973
- ^ New York Magazine , Feb. 18, 1974
- ^ New York Magazine , May 27, 1974
- ^ New York Magazine , March 11, 1974
- ^ New York Magazine , Aug. 12, 1974
- ^ New York Magazine , Aug. 19, 1974
- ^ "Jazz Quartet at Mikell's", in: The New York Times June 3, 1983
- ^ "Hot Bop from a Tropical Gent", in: Time .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online)