Velvet Lounge
Velvet Lounge was a jazz club in Chicago from 1982 to 2011 ; it is currently a dance and night club.
history
The AACM -member Fred Anderson took over the Velvet Lounge in 1982 by a close friend who had previously died. The venue's first domicile was on 22nd Street and Indiana Avenue, but was forced to move to 67 East Cermark Road (between McCormick Place and Chinatown) in the South Loop in 2006 due to the redevelopment of the area. The new club was renovated with an amount of over $ 100,000 raised by private donors. Anderson organized a number of jam sessions there in the Chicago experimental and free jazz scene, including a. with Joseph Bowie , David Boykin , Hamid Drake , Eight Bold Souls , Peter Kowald , Jeff Parker , Chad Taylor and Ken Vandermark .
In the Velvet Lounge , in addition to a number of albums under Anderson's name (such as Live at the Velvet Lounge 1999, with Kowald and Drake) or Back at the Velvet Lounge on Delmark Records , in 2002 recordings by Jeb Bishop / Sebi Tramontana , Ernest Dawkins ( Velvet Songs - To Baba Fred Anderson 2008), Malachi Favors , Fredrik Ljungkvist , Misha Mengelberg ( Two Days in Chicago , 1999), Keshavan Maslak / Tatsu Aoki and Jemeel Moondoc / William Parker . Corey Wilkes performed regularly with the Velvet Lounge All-Stars .
After Anderson's death in 2010, the club was initially continued by Anderson's family until the management passed and the club reopened, albeit with a different musical concept.
The jazz critic Howard Reich described the Velvet Lounge as " ground zero for avant-garde jazz in Chicago ".
literature
- Gerald Majer: The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz . Chicago: Columbia University Press 2005, ISBN 0-231-13682-X .
Web links
- Facebook site
- Velvet Lounge at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ jazz.about.com ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://chicagomaroon.com/2006/03/07/free-jazz-flourishes-at-chicago8217s-velvet-lounge-2/ Nick Morrison: Free jazz flourishes at Chicago's Velvet Lounge (2006) in Chicago Maroon
- ↑ Chicagoscope: The New Velvet Lounge (2006)
- ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 10, 2014)
- ↑ Information about the album on Okka Disk
- ↑ Review of Scott Yanow's album Back at the Velvet Lounge at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ↑ web.roguart.com
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: chicagoweekly.org )
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Velvet_Lounge_to_play_again chicagojournal.com ), November 30, 2011
- ↑ June Skinner Sawyers: Chicago Portraits: New Edition . 2013, p. 117.
- ↑ cup.columbia.edu
