The Penthouse (Seattle)

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The Penthouse was a jazz club in Seattle that is best remembered for the appearance of John Coltrane in September 1965.

History of the club

Historic 1916 photograph of First Avenue in Seattle with the Kenneth Hotel

The jazz club The Penthouse opened in 1962 in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle . Its founder Charlie Puzzo put on performances by artists such as Cannonball Adderley , Miles Davis , Bill Evans , The Montgomery Brothers , Stan Getz , Anita O'Day , Bill Cosby , Little Richard and Aretha Franklin for the next seven years . The club was on the first floor of the Kenneth Hotel at 701 1st Avenue, near the corner of Cherry Street. The building was originally part of the Merchant's National Bank Building , constructed in 1884 and converted into the Safe Deposit Building after the fire of 1889 . The radio presenter Jim Wilke has carried out weekly live broadcasts for the local KING radio station from the club since the early 1960s.

One of these broadcasts was the concert of the sextet of saxophonist John Coltrane on September 30, 1965, which was excerpts from the Impulse! Records was released ( Live in Seattle ). The Penthouse closed in 1968; afterwards the building was demolished and the area turned into a parking lot.

The Seattle music historian Paul de Barros called The Penthouse one of the “first truly modern jazz clubs in the city”.

Discographic notes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Raether: Out of this World: John Coltrane in Seattle in Earshot Jazz 1995 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hipcitymusic.net
  2. ↑ a b Steve Griggs: Live From Seattle, It's Thursday Night! - 1960's Broadcasts from The Penthouse
  3. ↑ Donald Garrett (bcl, b), John Coltrane (ss, ts), Pharoah Sanders (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (dr), cf. ( Pharoah Sanders discography ; Joe Brazil and Carlos Ward also appeared on other appearances .
  4. ↑ Further recordings of the Coltrane band were released on the album The Unissued Seattle Broadcast , including Coltrane's final version of Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life ; see. World records
  5. ↑ cit. n. Clark Humphrey: Vanishing Seattle Charleston 2006, p. 60

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '9.8 "  N , 122 ° 20' 5.2"  W.