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In 1996, after owning the club for 57 years, Clarence Baker sold the club to John Colbert and Juanita Jackson. The new owners were challenged by declining interests in live jazz performances, due to the aging of the fanbase of jazz purists, a shift to mainstream jazz from the historic Hard Bop emphasis of the club, and the popularity of hip hop.
The Detroit Jazz Festival is back for another long Labor Day weekend of free first-class entertainment. ... The Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet will take over Hart Plaza’s Absopure Waterfront Stage ...
Hilberry Gateway – the STAGE, at Wayne State University. 4715 Cass Ave., Detroit. 313-577-2972. www.theatreanddance.waynestate.edu. Tickets start at $27. Ripples in time
The Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center, a state-of-the-art performance venue located at 4715 Cass Ave. on Wayne State University’s (WSU) campus in Midtown Detroit, is a partnership between WSU and ...
Cliff Bell's is a jazz club in Detroit, Michigan which is located at 2030 Park Ave. [1] It originally opened in 1935, [2] and it is named after John Clifford Bell, an entrepreneur in Detroit in the 1930s. [3] Notable artists such as Marcus Miller have performed at Cliff Bell's. [4] Additionally, The Moth storytelling events are held monthly at ...
Blue Bird Inn, July 2011. The Blue Bird Inn, at 5021 Tireman, was a jazz night club in Detroit presenting music every night except Monday. An African American owned venue, by the end of the 1940s it was the most important live outlet for bop in the city.
One of the Motor City’s biggest annual cultural events, the Detroit Jazz Festival, is back for another four-day, Labor Day weekend celebration downtown. 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival: What to know ...
Mack Avenue was founded in 1999 by Gretchen Carhartt Valade, a jazz fan and chair of the American apparel company Carhartt. The company is a sponsor of the Detroit Jazz Festival, to which Gretchen Valade donated $15 million in 2006. [1] Early Mack recording artists included Terry Gibbs, Oscar Castro-Neves, and George Shearing.