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:
This old dive in Harlem has been shuttered for about as long as it had been open. Yet Minton’s Playhouse will always be known as the cradle of bebop, where the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker jammed into the night. Continue reading
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Tagged Harlem, Lenox Avenue, Lenox Lounge, Minton, Minton's Playhouse, New York City, Thelonious Monk, Time Warner
Miles Davis playing in Miles mode. Not sure of the Memphis to Harlem connection in the song, but we know he played in Harlem’s Mintons, Lenox Lounge and he was married to actress and Harlemite Cicely Tyson in the early 1980′s. Continue reading
Some remember St. Nick’s Pub as simply magical. Perhaps the jazz greats who played there, blowing, singing and sweating into the early hours of the morning, left something in the tattered walls and creaky floors of the little Harlem nightspot on St. Nicholas Avenue at 149th Street. Continue reading
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Tagged Floyd Davis, Frank Lacey, Harlem, Lenox Lounge, Lillian Lampkin, Liquor license, Melvin Vine, Minton's Playhouse, New York, New York State Liquor Authority, Olu Dara, Pink Angel, Sarah Vaughn, Skillet Show, St. Nicks Pub, United States, Vincent Lampkin, Wynton Marsalis
Charlie Parker cut his teeth on Harlem jazz, in the 1940′s Parker played in after-hours clubs in Harlem like Clark Monroe’s Uptown House and Minton’s Playhouse, on top of that he played with musicians such as Thelonious Monk, guitarist Charlie Christian, and drummer Kenny Clarke. Continue reading
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Tagged Bowery Poetry Club, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, City Parks Foundation, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, Contemporary Music, Ginny’s Supper Club, Jazz Foundation of America, Kenny Clarke, Minton's Playhouse, New York City, Revive Music School and The New School for Jazz, The Harlem School of the Arts, The Jazz Foundation of America, Thelonious Monk
Herbie Nichols was born in San Juan Hill (Amsterdam Avenue, West End Avenue, 59th Street, and 65th Street), Manhattan to parents from St. Kitts and Trinidad and grew up in Harlem. Continue reading
By Walter Rutledge
This weekend has a varied offering of arts events happening around the city and neighboring communities. Dance, art, and music abound. Here are a few of the events taking place in our community and around the city. Continue reading
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Tagged Abysinnian Baptist Church, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Annie and Taseen Ferdous, Apollo Theater, Arden Court, Barbara Bullock, Celestial Tides, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, club harlem, Club Havana San Juan, Columbia University, Debkah Troupe, Essie Green Galleries, Firebird, Folk Feet Females: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Dance, Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Igal Perry, Joan Tower, Kaina Quenga, KowTeff African Dance Co., Kristin Sudeikis, Lenox Lounge, Minton's Playhouse, Minus 16, Najmat Falasteen, Parijat Desai Dance, Park Palace, Pascal Rioult, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Polish American Folk Dance Co., Raman Ramakrishnan, red rooster, Revelations, RIOULT, Rita Silva, Showman's Cafe, Sidra Bell, SMALL'S PARADISE, T.S. Eliot, Tamara Chernyakhovsky, The Violet Hour, The Waste Land
By Walter Rutledge
Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival begins Monday May 7. The six-day festival, which runs through Sunday May 13 will offer jazz music and related events at venues all over Harlem. Continue reading
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Tagged Abysinnian Baptist Church, Apollo Theater, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, club harlem, Club Havana San Juan, Columbia University, Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Lenox Lounge, Minton's Playhouse, red rooster, Showman's Cafe, SMALL'S PARADISE, Walter's World. Walter Rutledge
The New Amsterdam Musical Association, (NAMA) is the oldest African-American musical organization in the United States. Continue reading
Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill (far left is Melba Moore’s father who managed Mintons Playhouse for many years), in front of Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947.
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Tagged harlem ny, Howard McGhee, Melba Moore, Minton's Playhouse, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Hill
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