Seventh Avenue South (Jazz Club)

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Seventh Avenue South was a New York jazz club that existed from 1977 to 1987.

Seventh Avenue South jazz club was located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood (21 Seventh Avenue South, corner of Leroy Street) and was run by the brothers and jazz musicians Randy and Michael Brecker and Kate Greenfield. In addition to the Brecker brothers, u. a. Mike Mainieri , Teru Nakamura, Mike Stern , Bob Mintzer , Hiram Bullock , Wynton Marsalis Steve Grossman , David Sanborn , Al Foster , Junior Cook and Sal Nistico . The group Steps Ahead , Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth Band and the Bob Mintzer Big Band had their first gigs in the club ; there were also live recordings of the Japanese fusion band Native Son, Jaco Pastorius ( live in New York City ), Steps / Steps Ahead, Mike Mainieri and Rory Stuart. The club was an important meeting point for the jazz and studio music scene in New York.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Nights - Seventh Avenue South. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (American English).
  2. Randy Brecker's website
  3. ^ Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker: The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism , 2000, p. 744
  4. Seventh Avenue South at Discogs
  5. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 10, 2016)

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