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"Pennsylvania 6-5000" (also written "Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand") is a 1940 swing jazz and pop standard recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra as a Bluebird 78 rpm single. The music was by Jerry Gray and the lyrics by Carl Sigman .
An FM station was added in the late 1930s. In June, 1948, WNAC-TV began broadcasting from the Hotel. Until 1968, WNAC operated an AM, FM and television station in the hotel basement. [12] "Compared to the other clubs in town, listening to a jazz musician at Storyville is like sitting at home with a pair of earphones"
Ormes became the face of the Sutherland as it catered to black clientele, advertising it as "The Southside's Most Progressive Hotel." Jazz music enjoyed a revival in the area of the 1950s, and several venues opened to cater to its popularity, including the Savoy Ballroom, the Regal Theater, the Palm Tavern, and the Parkway Ballroom.
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] Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio, San Francisco [1]: 5 Jazz Workshop, San Francisco; SF Jazz Center, San Francisco
The music was played in concerts by the trio of pianist Ahmad Jamal, bassist Israel Crosby, and drummer Vernel Fournier at the Pershing Lounge, inside Chicago's Pershing Hotel, on East 64th Street, on January 16 and 17, 1958. [1]
The hotel's Cafe Carlyle has featured jazz performers throughout the years. George Feyer was the club's first resident performer from 1955 to 1968, [23] [222] interspersing his piano performances with commentary on current events. [223]
The club opened in January 1994 at its original location, at 63rd Street and Broadway in the basement of The Empire Hotel, with a minimal cover charge. [3] That first location, known as the "Iridium Room Jazz Club", was a basement room below the Merlot restaurant across from Lincoln Center and initially booked "traditional, swinging jazz musicians of the second or third level."
The 1958 Down Beat review was mildly negative, referring to Jamal as playing "cocktail music"; the reviewer acknowledged Jamal's skill and influence on other jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, but wrote, "The trio's chief virtue is an excellent, smooth light but flexible beat", and "Throughout the music is kept emotionally, melodically, and organizationally innocuous."