By Walter Rutledge
The Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival will take place throughout the Harlem community May 6 – 11. The festival will celebrate the legacy of jazz in Harlem featuring panel discussions, films and concerts by emerging and established artists. This year, the festival will pay tribute to The Alhambra Ballroom, the Apollo Theater, The Baby Grand, Minton’s Playhouse, Clark Monroe’s Uptown House, Showman’s Jazz Club, the Sugar Cane Club and the Cotton Club. Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Grand, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, Cotton Club, Cowin Auditorium at Teacher’s College, ERIMAJ, Fabian Almazan, Geri Allen, Ginny’s Supper Club, Harlem, Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Marcus Samuelsson, Minnie the Moocher, Minton's Playhouse, red rooster, S. Epatha Merkerson, Showman's Jazz Club, The Alhambra Ballroom, The Apollo Music Café, the Apollo Theater, The Baby Grand, The Cotton Club, the Sugar Cane Club, Walter Rutledge, Walter's World:
Take Wing and Soar Productions, an award winning, Harlem-based, professional Theater Arts Corporation, dedicated to supporting women, youth and especially classically trained actors of color, will host its Tenth Anniversary Gala Celebration at the World Famous Cotton Club on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Continue reading
Well’s has a storied history in Harlem. An innovator of chicken and waffles, Ann Well’s opened her Harlem restaurant in 1938.
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Tagged Buffalo wing, Chicken, chicken and waffles, Cook, Cotton Club, creole, Cuisine of the Southern United States, Fruit and Vegetable, Grits, gumbo, Harlem, louisiana, Mississippi, Mustard, Mustard (condiment), New York, Sunday, well's famous home of chicken & waffles, Wells’s Famous Home of Chicken and Waffles
The handsome Ananias “Nyas” Berry (1912 – 1951), of the famous dancing Berry Brothers. He was extremely talented and precocious child star accustomed to public adoration. 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
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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
This was the Fish Market at 656 West 125th Street on a triangle on Manhattan street (now renamed 125th Street to the right and St. Clair Street to the left) in Manhattanville around the 1920′s. Continue reading
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Tagged "Old Broadway"., 125th Street, 125th Street Station, Broadway, Broadway theatre, Carriage Driving, Cotton Club, Equestrian, Fish Market, Harlem, hudson river, Manhattan, Manhattanville, New York City, Robert Moses, Sports, St. Clair Street
On 143rd Street and Lenox Avenue sat the Douglas Theater, depending on which of my sources is correct, either 600 or 2200 seats (which in 1935 expanded to 2300, which could indicate that an orchestra pit was covered over to add more seating). Continue reading
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Tagged Benny Goodman, Breakfast Club, Cab Calloway, Cotton Club, Duffy Square, Duke Ellington, Johnson's Club DeLuxe, Lenox Avenue, Lou Walters Latin Quarter, Owney Madden, Raoul Walsh, The Breakfast Club
Posted in Boxing, Harlem, Harlem sports, Harlem World, Harlem World Magazine, Sports
Tagged Boxing, Concord Hotel, Cotton Club, Dewitt Clinton High School, Dorothy Dandridge and Eartha Kitt, Edna Mae Holly, fighting, Frank Sinatra, Harlem, Harlem business, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem World Magazine, International Boxing Hall of Fame, Jackie Gleason, Jake LaMotta, Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, New York City, Rep. Charles Rangel, Sports, Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson Way, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacr
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
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