The Beehive Lounge
The Beehive Lounge was a Chicago jazz club in the 1950s.
The Beehive Lounge (1503 E 55th Street) was one of the well-known venues for jazz music in the Hyde Park area of Chicago with the Cadillac Lounge, Club Rodeo, Counterpoint Jazz Supper Club, Nob-Hill Club and the Sutherland Hotel . Jazz was played in Hyde Park as early as 1921, but the best time for jazz music was between the 1940s and 1970s. The Beehive opened in 1948 and was a meeting place for modern jazz (bebop, hard bop) in Chicago from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s. Charlie Parker performed here in 1949 and his last appearance in Chicago was in the Beehive. Their motto was The Beehive, where modern jazz comes alive . In the Beehive Lounge , a. Coleman Hawkins , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Sonny Stitt (1953), Al Hibbler (1954), Milt Jackson , Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , Max Roach / Clifford Brown , Thelonious Monk , Bud Powell (1955), Gene Ammons , Cannonball Adderley , Lester Young , Milt Jackson, Dexter Gordon / Norman Simmons and King Kolax (1956). Sonny Rollins stepped in for Harold Land in the quintet of Clifford Brown and Max Roach.
Jimmy Yancey was resident pianist from 1948 to 1951 and Junior Mance from 1953/54. The club was a black and tan club, which means there was a multiracial audience.
There are live recordings from the Beehive Lounge by the quintet of Max Roach and Clifford Brown from November 7, 1955 (published by the Japanese Victor and Philology, with Sonny Rollins and other tenor saxophonists such as Nicky Hill , George Morrow b, Billy Wallace p, Leo Blevins g).
Individual evidence
- ^ Researching Chicago Jazz Venues at the University of Chicago
- ^ History Map Chicago, The Beehive . After Jack Chambers Milestones: the music and times of Miles Davis