Despite numerous reports to the contrary, the Lenox Lounge brand will continue without skipping a beat. Tyreta Foster, Esq. and Angélica Thomas, Esq. of Foster Lynch & Thomas, LLC negotiated in earnest throughout the 2012 Holiday Season … Continue reading
When a new jazz club opens in the space that Harlem’s Lenox Lounge has occupied for more than 70 years, it won’t be much different from what it is now. Continue reading
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Tagged alvin reed, billie holiday, Community board 10, Franco the Great, Harlem, Lenox Lounge, Miles Davis, New York, Notar, Notar Jazz Club, Richard Notar, Studio 54
It’s official, Mr. Alvin Reed owner of the historic Harlem jazz club Lenox Lounge at 288 Lenox Avenue (between 125th and 124th Street) will close his establishment on December 31st, 2012. Continue reading
The Apollo Theater announced today plans for Apollo Club Harlem, a production that will transform the legendary theater into a nightclub reminiscent of Harlem music clubs of the 1930s and 40s. Continue reading
Posted in Harlem dance, HArlem theater, Harlem Theatre
Tagged Apollo, Apollo Club Harlem, Apollo Theater, apollotheater, Basie, Billie, billie holiday, Count Basie, Dance, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dinah, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke, Duke Ellington, Ella, Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy award, Gregory Hines, Harlem, Machito, Maurice Hines, Mikki Shepard, Sarah, Sarah Vaughn
Singer Terry Callier sings Blues For Billie Holiday “Lady Day“. Terrence Orlando Callier, known as Terry Callier (May 24, 1945 – October 27, 2012) was an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter. Continue reading
Earl “Snakehips” Tucker (1905 – 1937) became known as the “Human Boa Constrictor” after the dance he popularized in Harlem in the 1920s called the “snakehips (Dance)“. Continue reading
Posted in Harlem dance, Harlem movie
Tagged Benny Rubin, billie holiday, breakdancing, Connie's Inn, Cotton Club, Crazy House, Duke Ellington, Earl, Earl "Snakehips" Tucker, Harlem, Human Boa Constrictor, Lame Brain Sanitarium", Savoy Ballroom, Snakehips, Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life, Tucker
Since the legendary Apollo Theater opened in 1934, its signature live show, Amateur Night, has been a definitive career-making opportunity for new talent. Continue reading
Posted in Harlem, Harlem entertainment, HArlem music, HW Music
Tagged Amateur Night, Amateur Night 2013, apollotheater, billie holiday, Child Star of Tomorrow, Coca-Cola Company, dancers, Dionne Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight, Gladys Knight & the Pips, James Brown, Lauryn Hill, Luther Vandross, Marion J. Caffey, musicians, New York City, Sarah Vaughan, spoken word poets, stevie wonder
Harlem playboy Dickie Wells, in photo above with Billie Holiday and Tullulah Bankhead in the Club Ebony night spot in Harlem. Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, billie holiday, Bumpy Johnson, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, club ebony, Cotton Club, Ebony Lorathio, Errol Flynn, Ethel Waters, Harlem, Harlem's Strivers Row, Hattie McDaniel, hicken and waffles, Joan Crawford, Lady Day, Lincoln Theater, Margherite Chapman, Marilyn Monroe, New York, New York City, Tallulah Bankhead, World War II, Zora Neale Hurston
We congratulate the Apollo Theater announced today that it is one of 16 historic New York City locations that received a preservation grant as part of the Partners in Preservation competition… Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Keys, Amateur Night, American Express, American Express Foundation, apollotheater, billie holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, James Brown, JONELLE PROCOPE, Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, Music Café, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stephanie Meeks, Timothy J. McClimon
Posted in Music
Tagged billie holiday, David Ritz, Doc Pomus, Harlem club, James Victor Scott, Lionel Hampton, red rooster
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