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Denver was the scene of a deadly anti-Chinese riot in 1880. [14] Denver has an active population of Japanese Americans. Sakura Square in downtown Denver was founded in 1944 by formerly-interned Japanese Americans migrating from the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California. The community hosts several public markets and restaurants.
Loft jazz (or the loft scene or loft era) was a cultural phenomenon that occurred in New York City during the mid-1970s. Gary Giddins described it as follows: "[A] new coterie of avant-garde musicians took much of the jazz world by surprise... [T]hey interpreted the idea of freedom as the capacity to choose between all the realms of jazz ...
The Bottom Line was a music venue at 15 West 4th Street between Mercer Street and Greene Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.During the 1970s and 1980s the club was a major space for small-scale popular music performances.
Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Established in 1994, [ 3 ] it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising talent in the New York jazz scene".
All About Jazz columnist Michael J. Williams wrote about an altercation with Charles Mingus and pianist Don Pullen in the early 1970s, "One of the wonderful things about live jazz in clubs, and that goes for Gilly's, is the ever-present possibility of the unexpected". [4] In addition to jazz, Gilly's hosted a tribute show to David Bowie.
Sparky J's, previously known as the Cadillac Club, [1] was a popular jazz club in downtown Newark, New Jersey. [2] Sparky J's often featured soul jazz or funky jazz best exemplified by the organ combo, a band usually consisting of a Hammond B-3 organist, a saxophonist, a drummer, and a guitarist. [3]
Waits moved from Silver Lake to Echo Park, spending much of his time in downtown Los Angeles. [50] In early 1974, he continued to perform around the West Coast, getting as far as Denver. [51] For Waits's second album, Geffen wanted a more jazz-oriented producer, selecting Bones Howe for the job. [52]
Yoshi's (also known as Yoshi's Jazz Club and Yoshi's Oakland) is a nightclub located in Jack London Square in Oakland, California, United States. The venue originally opened in 1972 as a restaurant in Berkeley, later moving to Claremont Avenue in Oakland. In 1979, the restaurant expanded into a lounge/nightclub hosting local and national jazz ...