The Blue Note (Chicago)
The Blue Note was a Chicago jazz club that existed from 1947 to 1960.
history
The Blue Note jazz club was located at 56 West Madison Street, near Dearborn Street in Chicago; Club owner was Frank Holzfeind, who opened the club on November 25, 1947. In contrast to Club Jazz Ltd., which also opened in 1947, The Blue Note had a rather eclectic program and offered many styles of jazz, from dixieland , big band swing to modern jazz . In 1953 he moved to North Clark Street. The Blue Note closed in 1960, mainly because the fees for big bands had become too expensive.
Program designer Jackie Fields made the Blue Note one of the most famous and progressive venues for jazz music in the late 1950s. There occurred u. a. Jazz greats like Louis Armstrong , Maxine Sullivan , Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Ventura , Slim Gaillard , George Shearing , Duke Ellington , Lionel Hampton , Erroll Garner , Bob Scobey and Jack Teagarden . The club also recorded the performances of Woody Herman , Lennie Tristano , Stan Kenton , Benny Goodman , Dave Brubeck , Chubby Jackson , the Oscar Peterson Trio & Buddy DeFranco , Muggsy Spanier , Johnny Pate , Chet Baker , Roy Eldridge , Count Basie and Harry James . At the end of December 1957, the Timex All Star Jazz Show with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Carmen McRae was presented and broadcast on NBC TV.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven D. Harris The Kenton Kronicles: A Biography of Modern America's Man 2003
- ↑ Charles A. Seng floor, That Toddlin 'Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950 . 2004, p. 175
- ↑ In addition to the Blue Note in 1960, the Chicago jazz scene lost other clubs in this era, the Birdhouse in March 1963 and the Cloister in 1961. Cf. Chicago Scene , 1963, Volume 4, p. 24.
- ↑ Lewis Porter , Chris DeVito, David Wild: The John Coltrane Reference . 2013
- ^ Series I Jazz Venue Ephemera from the Robert Peck Donation in the Chicago Jazz Archive
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)