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According to a 1936 book by the crime writer Herbert Asbury, when another band appropriated their name and musical style for a performance at the Haymarket Dancehall, the original band members pelted the stage with rocks, leading the venue's owner to change the name of the second band on all advertising to the Razzy Dazzy Jazzy Band, which some ...
Jazz Calendar is a ballet created in 1968 by Frederick Ashton to the music of Richard Rodney Bennett. The ballet was first performed on 9 January 1968 by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden, with designs by Derek Jarman . [ 1 ]
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The club was sold and the new owners were not able to maintain the venue's appeal or its concept. After a failed attempt at rebranding it as a restaurant, blues and jazz club, they closed the doors for good in June 2014. Its legendary Blue Wisp Big Band is the last vestige of the once great club.
The club was established in 1978, [3] when five people converted an old restaurant for railway workers into a jazz club. The name "Unterfahrt" or subway denotes the passage under the railway where it was originally situated. The new club was focused on free jazz, and by the 1980s it was open five days a week. In 1994 it began featuring seven ...
Smoke Jazz & Supper Club is a jazz club located at 2751 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The club was opened on April 9, 1999 by co-founders Paul Stache and Frank Christopher and is currently owned by Stache and his wife and partner Molly Sparrow Johnson. [ 1 ]
In 1949, a record label, Roost Records, was founded by Arthur Faden, Bill Faden, Monty Kay and Ralph Watkins, which recorded many of the musicians who performed at the club. In September 1948, Miles Davis debuted his nonet at the club, a project that would eventually give rise to the seminal cool jazz album Birth of the Cool. By the early 1950s ...
Scullers Jazz Club is a jazz club in Allston, Massachusetts, situated in the Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel on Soldiers Field Road, which overlooks the Charles River. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was established in 1989 and also hosts Latin, blues, soul, R & B, and World Music acts.