Top of the gate
Top of the Gate was a jazz club that existed in New York 's Greenwich Village neighborhood in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s .
The Top of the Gate jazz club , located on Bleecker Street at the corner of Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan , was founded by the impresario Art D'Lugoff after he converted his restaurant into a function room with a piano in 1965. The Village Gate club, founded by D'Lugoff in 1958, was located in the basement of the house .
In the Top of The Gate , u. a. George Cables , Blossom Dearie Tete Montoliu, and the Billy Taylor Trio; In addition, live recordings were made a. a. by Junior Mance (1968) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi quintet with Kenny Dorham ( Toshiko at Top of the Gate 1968). The concert of the Bill Evans trio with Marty Morell and Eddie Gomez was broadcast on the WKCR radio station and only released in 2012 as Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate . In 1974 the club ended its jazz offer (apart from nightly weekend sessions).
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary to Art D'Lugoff in The New York Times
- ↑ Downbeat , Volume 32; Volume 32
- ^ Billboard, Nov. 26, 1966, p. 28
- ^ Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz ; P. 474
- ^ New York Magazine Sep 29, 1969, p. 15
- ↑ C. Michael Bailey: Bill Evans: Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of The Gate (2012) in All About Jazz
- ^ Billboard, July 6, 1974, p. 15
Coordinates: 40 ° 34 ′ 38.4 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 20.5" W.