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Club Eleven had been founded at 44 Great Windmill Street in 1948 as a co-operative to promote bebop jazz. It was named after the eleven founders who included Ronnie Scott , Hank Shaw , Leon Calvert, Johnny Rogers, Bernie Fenton, Tommy Pollard, Lennie Bush , Joe Muddel, Tony Crombie , Laurie Morgan and manager Harry Morris.
Isengart's early years were spent in Paris and Munich before moving to New York City in 1993 to study dance and join the city's thriving art scene. [1] In 1997, he began performing one-man shows in New York City cabarets and made a name for himself as a specialist of the European Cabaret tradition, [2] earning residencies in downtown nightclubs such as Bar d'O (by invitation of Joey Arias) and ...
Jazz has been popular in Birmingham since the 1920s, [1] an era when interest in the music within England was otherwise largely confined to London. [5] The Birmingham Palais was one of the pioneering venues of British jazz and opened in Ladywood in 1920, [2] hosting early touring bands from the United States such as the Frisco Jazz Band in 1920, [2] Benny Peyton's Jazz Kings in 1921, [2] the ...
Interior of Central Bar jazz club. The Central Bar jazz club was a music venue in Clerkenwell, London, England. It was founded by booker and promoter Flavia Brilli in 1999.The club was located at 58 Old Street in Clerkenwell. It was situated on the first floor of the Central Bar which was used for various music nights and events until the ...
Club Eleven was a nightclub in London between 1948 and 1950 which played a significant role in the emergence of the bebop jazz movement in Britain.. The club was so named because it had 11 founders – business manager Harry Morris and ten British bebop musicians.
Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999) [1] was an American singer of popular music whose 1940s and 1950s recordings mixing jazz, blues, and country styles influenced the development of rock and roll.
During the mid-1970s the Seven Dials Community Centre, in Shelton Street, London WC2, was briefly used by the Jazz Centre Society (founded 1969) [2] as a venue for music. . After some building alterations, the Seven Dials Jazz Club reopened on a regular basis in July 1980, but soon met with financial difficul
By 1925, she had performed in Cuba, the Cotton Club in New York City, and Los Angeles with the bands of Paul Howard, Curtis Mosby, and Sonny Clay. [2] [4] In 1928, she sang in Australia with Clay's band and starred in Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles in April. Soon after, she began touring in the United States as a solo singer.