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Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Downtown Santa Cruz [4] [1]: 5 Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley [4] Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio, San Francisco [1]: 5 Jazz Workshop, San Francisco; SF Jazz Center, San Francisco; Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Oakland [1]: 5
Improvements included complete wheelchair accessibility, new restrooms, two new lobbies, a sculpture garden, added parking and in 1999, the 500-seat Louis Spiering Room. The art galleries encompass 6,000 square feet and feature exhibits on jazz history, photography, architecture, St. Louis artists and children’s art.
The Peacock Alley was a jazz club at 2935 Lawton Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of St. Louis' most important nightclubs in the 1950s. [2] [3] Due to its close proximity to Union Station, it was favored among musicians. [4]
Grand Center is the site of numerous arts and entertainment venues including the Fox Theatre, Powell Symphony Hall (home of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra), the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Sheldon Concert Hall, Clyde C. Miller Career Academy, and Jazz St. Louis.
Club Riviera was a nightclub at 4460 Delmar Blvd in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the most popular African-American nightclubs in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. [1] It was owned by politician and civil rights activist Jordan W. Chambers from 1944 to 1962. In 1964, the venue became the Riviera Civic Center under new ownership.
The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen officially renamed the district on 24 March 1961. By 1962, property values in Gaslight Square had tripled. [1] [3] [4] [5] A 1962 episode of the American TV drama Route 66 titled "Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame" was set and filmed inside The Darkside jazz club.
Victor Louis Goines (born August 6, 1961) is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who has served as president and chief executive officer of Jazz St. Louis since September 2022. From 2000 to 2007, he was director of the jazz program at Juilliard .