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Left Bank was founded by Vernon L. Welsh (10 February 1919 – 8 August 2002 Baltimore, Maryland) and Benny Kearse (16 March 1930 Allendale, South Carolina – 29 June 1999 Baltimore, Maryland). Welsh recorded more than 800 jazz performances at the Famous Ballroom during the 1960s and 1970s.
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music. Jazz clubs are usually a type of nightclub or bar, which is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Jazz clubs were in large rooms in the eras of Orchestral jazz and big band jazz, when bands were large and often augmented by a string section.
The first group in Baltimore to self-apply the jazz label was led by John Ridgely, and known as either the John Ridgely Jazzers or the Ridgely 400 Society Jazz Band, which included pianist Rivers Chambers. Ridgely organized the band in 1917, and they played daily at the Maryland Theater in the 1920s.
Andy's Jazz Club [1]: 4 Bee Hive [4] The Black Orchid; Club DeLisa; Constellation Jazz Club [1]: 4 Friar's Inn (1920s) Green Mill Cocktail Lounge [1]: 4 HotHouse; Hungry Brain [1]: 4 The Jazz Showcase [1]: 4 Kelly's Stables; London House; Macomba Lounge; Plugged Nickel [4] Rhumboogie Café; Regal Theater [4] Sunset Cafe; Sutherland Lounge; The ...
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The Maryland Theater was a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland, home to that city's first jazz band, led by John Ridgely. It was originally built for James Lawrence Kernan (1838-1912) as a vaudeville house, in 1903, adjacent to his Hotel Kernan (later renamed the Congress Hotel).
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Wilfred "Mickey" Fields (1932/33 – January 16, 1995) [1] was a Baltimore-area jazz saxophonist, a local legend who refused to play outside the Baltimore area, although he was asked to leave Baltimore many times to go on the road with many famous bands.