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It was a dance hall, bowling alley, and restaurant complex in an all-white neighborhood. [4] Chicago-born George S. Edick moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1928. [5] Edick purchased the venue and opened the Club Imperial with the music of Al Tucker & his Orchestra on March 22, 1952. [6]
The Club Manhattan was a nightclub at 1320 East Broadway in East St. Louis, Illinois. [1] The venue was owned by Booker Merritt. [2] The Club Manhattan has a prominent place in Greater St. Louis music history. It is best known for being the nightclub where singer Tina Turner met her future husband, bandleader Ike Turner.
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 ...
Gaslight Square (also known as Greenwich Corners) [1] was an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri active in the 1950s and 60s, covering an area of about three blocks at the intersection of Olive and Boyle, near the eastern part of the current Central West End and close to the current Grand Center Arts District.
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay [1]: 5 Black Cat, Tenderloin, San Francisco [1]: 5 Black Hawk, Tenderloin, San Francisco [4] Great American Music Hall, Tenderloin, San Francisco; Keystone Korner, North Beach, San Francisco [4] Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Downtown Santa Cruz [4] [1]: 5 Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley [4]
The Half Note was a jazz club in New York City, New York that flourished in two Manhattan locations – from 1957 to 1972 in SoHo (then known as the Village) at 289 Hudson Street at Spring Street and from 1972 to 1974 in Midtown at 149 West 54th Street, one block west of the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1964 the pianist reformed his quintet with Konitz and Marsh for a two-month engagement at the Half Note and performances at the Coq D'Or in Toronto. [74] The quartet, missing Konitz, played the Cellar Club in Toronto two years later. [75] Tristano played on occasion at the Half Note Club until the mid-1960s, [17] and toured Europe in 1965. [17]
Radio Nights is an album released in 1991 featuring previously unreleased live radio broadcasts by the Cannonball Adderley Quartet, Quintet and Sextet from New York City's Half Note Club jazz club. They were recorded by Alan Grant and broadcast live on radio in the last week of 1967 and the first week of 1968.