The Ladies' Fort

The Ladies' Fort was a New York jazz music venue that existed on the Lower East Side in the 1970s .

history

The venue The Ladies' Fort , founded in 1973 and operated by Joe Lee Wilson , was in the basement of a loft in the NoHo district (2 Bond Street), in the immediate vicinity of the then jazz club The Tin Palace ( Bowery / corner of Second Street) and the Studio Rivbea (24 Bond Street). The Ladies' Fort also had a special Jazz at Dawn program that ran from 6am to 10am.

In the years of its existence, jazz musicians such as Dakota Staton , Eddie Jefferson , the New Frontier Ensemble , Ryō Kawasaki , Charles Davis , Bennie Wallace , Tommy Turrentine , Jemeel Moondoc , Phil Lasley , Monty Waters , Ray Anderson , Hamiet Bluiett , have performed at the Ladies' Fort . David Murray , Jimmy Wormworth . and Andrew White . The club closed in 1979.

Close to the New York Times , The Ladies' Fort was considered "one of the most notable of the musician-run do-it-yourself venues in Lower Manhattan , commonly known as Jazz Lofts , which were considered showcase projects and workshops for more experimental styles of jazz at a time when When musicians hardly found opportunities to perform and night clubs closed their doors. ”Several concert recordings were made in the club.

Discographic notes

• Andrew White: Live in New York at The Ladies Fort (Andrew's Music 1977)
• David Murray: Flowers for Albert ( India Navigation , 1976), with Fred Hopkins , Phillip Wilson , Olu Dara
• Hamiet Bluiett: Endangered Species (India Navigation, 1976), with Olu Dara, Jumma Santos , June Booth , Phillip Wilson

Web links

• The Ladies' Fort at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ^ Will Hermes: Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music . 2014.
2. ^ New York Magazine, June 6, 1977
3. ↑ New York Magazine October 4, 1976
4. ^ New York Magazine, April 18, 1977
5. ^ New York Magazine, December 25, 1978
6. ^ New York Magazine, May 2, 1977
7. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
8. ^ Leslie Gourse : Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists , 1996, p. 89
9. ↑ Album from Live in New York at The Ladies Fort on Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 18, 2016.
10. ↑ Peter Keepnews: Obituary for Joe Lee Wilson in NYTimes (2011)
11. ^ W. Royal Stokes: The Jazz Scene . 1993, p. 145