Zardi's
Zardi's (also known as Zardi's Jazzland ) was a jazz music venue in Los Angeles that existed from the early 1950s to 1957.
The Zardi's was located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood and Vine district. Well-known musicians such as Bob Brookmeyer , Stan Getz , Jimmy Giuffre , Oscar Peterson , Art Tatum and Cal Tjader played there at the beginning of the 1950s , whose concert was discussed in 1956 on the Down Beat . Regular guests included u. a. also the young composer La Monte Young . In the course of its existence, several concerts have been recorded at Zardi's by Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan , Earl Bostic and Buddy DeFranco . Herb Geller dedicated his composition Tardi for Zardi's to the club , which was based on the chord progressions of All God's Children Got Rhythm . In early 1956 there was a weekly live television series called Tonight at Zardi’s that began with a concert by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. In the mid-1950s, a number of jazz clubs in Los Angeles closed their doors, including Zardi's , The Haig and the Tiffany Club .
Discographic notes
- Oscar Peterson: At Zardi's , Pablo Records 1955 (ed. 1986)
- Ella Fitzgerald : Ella at Zardi’s (1956), with Don Abney , Vernon Alley , Frank Capp
literature
- Ted Gioia : West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles , edited by Clora Bryant , William Green, Steven Isoardi, Buddy Collette , Marlin Young, 2000, p. 243
- ↑ a b Martin Williams: Jazz Changes , page 85
- ^ Gordon Jack, Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective , 2004, p. 42
- ^ S. Duncan Reid: Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz . 2013, p. 64
- ^ Jeremy Grimshaw: Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young . P. 23
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 8, 2014)
- ^ Max Harrison , Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson : The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to Postmodernism , 2000, p. 91
- ^ Billboard, February 11, 1956
- ^ The Billboard mentions the closure of the club in its August 19, 1957 issue.
- ↑ James Gavin: Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker . 2011, p. 130