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The Lenox Lounge. Lenox Lounge was a long-standing bar in Harlem, New York City.It was located in 288 Lenox Avenue, between 124th and 125th.The bar was founded in 1939 by Ralph Greco and served as a venue for performances by many great jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.
Smalls Paradise (often called Small's Paradise and Smalls' Paradise), was a nightclub in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Located in the basement of 2294 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at 134th Street, it opened in 1925 and was owned by Ed Smalls (né Edwin Alexander Smalls; 1882–1976).
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Minton's original owner, Henry Minton, was known in Harlem for being the first ever black delegate to the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. [3] In addition, he had been the manager of the Rhythm Club, in Harlem, in the early part of the 1930s, a venue which Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Earl Hines frequented. [4]
Club Harlem was outfitted with two lounges and a main showroom seating more than 900. [4] A cocktail lounge had room for 400 guests, with continuous entertainment available. The club was equipped with seven bars; [2] [16] the front bar alone accommodated nearly 100 people. [21]
St. Nick's Jazz Pub located at 773 St. Nicholas Avenue, in New York City, in the area of Harlem known as Sugar Hill, Manhattan. It was one of the oldest continuous operating jazz club in Harlem specializing in jazz and blues. In the 1930s, it was known as Poosepahtuck. In the 1940s, it was known as Lucky's Rendezvous and owned by Luckey Roberts.
In the late 1920s, Billie Holiday, under her birth name, Eleanora Fagan, sang for tips at small Harlem venues, namely the Nest Club, Pod's and Jerry's, the Yeah Man (1925–1960) [Note 6] at 2350 Seventh Avenue at 138th Street, and Monette's at 148 West 133rd (1926–). Microphones to amplify vocalist were not yet used in Harlem nightclubs.
The Clubs attracted artists and Bohemians of both races. Nevertheless, this was a highly imperfect inter-mixing of white and black America. Some of the clubs catered to an almost exclusively white clientele, with blacks intervening only as performers and servers (e.g. the Cotton Club and the Plantation Club in Harlem).