Slug's Saloon
Slug's Saloon (often simply Slug’s ) was one of the well-known New York venues for contemporary jazz of the 1960s and early 1970s. In addition to the Jazz Gallery and the Five Spot , the bar developed into one of the central venues for the jazz avant-garde of the time between the East Village and Greenwich Village .
Slug's Saloon , located on the Lower East Side at 242 East Third Street in Manhattan between Avenues B and C, was one of the popular jazz clubs in New York in the 1960s. In 1964 David Izenzon convinced his friend Jerry Schultz to let jazz musicians perform there; one of the first bands to play there was Paul Bley's trio with Izenzon and Barry Altschul . Furthermore occurred u. a. on Wayne Shorter , Roy Haynes , Jimmy Heath , Curtis Fuller , Larry Coryell , Jack Bruce , Gil Evans Orchestra, John Coltrane , Ornette Coleman , Charles Mingus , Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders . Sun Ra played there since 1966 with his Arkestra for seven years on Mondays; Jackie McLean performed long Sunday afternoons. Recordings of performances by Albert Ayler , Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers , Charles Lloyd , Charles Mingus, Charles Tolliver and Sun Ra have been released on phonograms. The house band were Clint Houston , George Cables and Lenny White . Trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot dead in Slug's Saloon on February 19, 1972 while he was not performing.
The location of Slug's Saloon was considered a sacred place in African American culture, described in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) by James Weldon Johnson .
Discographic notes
- Charles Lloyds Manhattan Stories (Resonance, 1965; with Gábor Szabó , Ron Carter , Pete LaRoca )
- Albert Ayler Slugs' Saloon ( ESP , 1966; with Don Ayler , Michel Samson , Lewis Worrell , Ron Shannon )
- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live! at Slug's, NYC (Empire 1968; with Ronnie Mathews , Lawrence Evans , Bill Hardman , Julian Priester , Billy Harper )
- Charles Mingus Quintet Dizzy Atmosphere: Live at Historic Slugs', Vol. 1 (Jazz View, 1970; with Bill Hardman, Charles McPherson , Jimmy Vass , Dannie Richmond )
- Charles Mingus Quintet Fables of Faubus: Live at Historic Slugs', Vol. 2 (Jazz View 1970, same line-up)
- Charles Tolliver Live at Slugs' Volume 1 & Vol. 2 (Strata East, 1970; with Stanley Cowell , Cecil McBee and Clint Houston , Clifford Barbaro and Jimmy Hopps )
- Sun Ra Live at Slug's (Transparency, 1972; 6-CD box)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scott Saul: Freedom is, freedom ain't: jazz and the making of the sixties , p. 78, and Lawrence Joseph et al. a. Music Is Rapid Transportation ... from the Beatles to Xenakis 2010, p. 23
- ^ Larry Rivers with Arnold Weinstein What did I do ?: the Unauthorized Autobiography 1992, p. 451
- ↑ Barry Altschul in an interview
- ^ Footprints: The life and work of Wayne Shorter
- ^ New York Magazine August 24, 1970
- ↑ Harry Shapiro, Eric Clapton: Jack Bruce Composing Himself: The Authorized Biography
- ^ Stephanie Stein Crease: Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music , p. 276; the appearance there (1972) was his first club appearance in New York since 1960
- ^ A b Cheryl Clarke: After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
- ↑ Must-Hear Recordings Made at Slugs' Saloon , JazzTimes
- ↑ http://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/09/it-was-a-joint-jazz-musicians-remember-slugs-in-the-far-east/
- ↑ Review (AllAboutJazz); the first CD in this 2-CD box is recorded in Judson Hall
- ↑ Live at Slug's Saloon (1966) ( 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.
- ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
- ↑ Mingus discography (Onttonen) ; probably unauthorized publication
- ↑ Mingus Discography (Onttonen)
- ↑ Discography (United Mutations)
Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 19.2 " N , 73 ° 58 ′ 53.4" W.