West End Cafe

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The West End Cafe was a New York jazz club from the 1970s and 1980s.

History of the club

The West End Cafe was founded in the early 1970s by the music journalist Sidney Robert and was located on the corner of Broadway and 113th Street in the New York borough of Manhattan near Columbia University (2911 Broadway); it was a mixture of cafeteria and jazz club. The repertoire of the performing bands included swing and bebop , reminiscent of the swing street of the 1930s and 40s. There u played a. former musicians from the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Count Basie Orchestra such as Sam Woodyard , Russell Procope ,Earle Warren or Jo Jones , also Sammy Price , Joe Albany , Eddie Durham , George Kelly , Tiny Grimes , Paul Quinichette , Harold Ashby , Ram Ramirez , Buddy Tate , Allen Eager and Ruby Braff / Scott Hamilton .

Between 1982 and 1987 recordings of concerts by George Kelly ( Live at the West End Cafe (1982) with Irving Stokes , Richard Wyands , Peck Morrison , Ronnie Cole ), Mike Peters ( Django's Music (1983), and others with Randy Sandke , Herb Gardner , Bob Kindred ) and the Peter Compo Jazz Violin Quartet ( Live at the West End Cafe, New York City (1987) with Bobby Pratt , Bucky Calabrese and Giampaulo Biagi ). The club closed around 1987; In 1988 Burt and Art D'Lugoff , the owners of the Village Gate, planned to open a new club called West End Gate on the premises .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard November 10, 1973
  2. ↑ New York Magazine July 22, 1974
  3. ^ New York Magazine Jan. 27, 1978
  4. ↑ New York Magazine July 4, 1977
  5. ^ Gary Giddins , The Beat Goes On - Hot Jazz Clubs . New York Magazine March 10, 1980
  6. ^ New York Magazine Oct. 28, 1974
  7. ^ New York Magazine August 2, 1976
  8. ^ New York Magazine Aug. 11, 1975
  9. ^ New York Magazine July 12, 1976
  10. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .
  11. ^ Thomas P. Hustad: Born to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances , p. 439
  12. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 17, 2016)
  13. ↑ New York Magazine May 16, 1988