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Port Harcourt Jazz Club: 3, Khana Lane, D/Line, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Telephone: +234 803 3362062 Fax: +234 84 236772 / Contact: Chris Finebone.
With over 300 members., this jazz club organizes the Annual Opobo Beach Jazz Festival. The club engages both local and international jazz musicians to satisfy the cosmopolitan taste of members in the oil and gas business here week days & weekends.
From Broadway To 52nd Street
The Majestic Theatre opened the curtain for Carousel for the first time on April 19, 1945. With music composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, the musical ran for eight hundred and ninety performances. John Raitt and Jan Clayton had the title roles in this play adapted from the famous Molnar story of Liliom, from which came two songs that would endear themselves for years as jazz standards – What’s The Use Of Won’drin’ and If I Loved You.
The Story: Billy Bigelow, a shy New England carnival barker falls in love with Julie Jordan. Eventually winning Julie’s heart, he later discovers she is pregnant. Jobless, Billy decides he must provide for his son, or daughter, he agrees to join his criminal friend Jigger Craig in a robbery to earn extra money. The plan misfires and Billy kills himself rather than being caught. Before a heavenly judge he pleads for another chance to return to earth to earn his redemption and see his daughter. When his daughter refuses his gift of a star he has stolen from the sky, he slaps her and returns to purgatory. The widowed Julie and child are left to continue to live starkly. The story is set in Maine where majestic backdrops add emotional emphasis.
Jazz History: It was known simply as The Street and as historian Arnold Shaw stated in his book 52nd Street, “If you flagged a taxi in NYC and asked to be taken to The Street, you would be driven, without giving a number or an avenue, to Fifty-Second Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues” By the late 1940s, as the jazz clubs turned into strip joints, many bemoaned the death of The Street. They considered this era to be the block’s decline.
In 1948, Time magazine decried the change from jazz to bump-n-grind: “where nightclubs in sorry brownstones crowd each other like bums on a breadline”, an era was all but over. Swing was still there, but it was more hips than horns. Barrelhouse had declined and burlesque was back. There was little jazz left on 52nd Street and even the customers had changed. There were fewer crew haircuts, pipes and sports jackets and more bald spots, cigars and paunches.
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Thelonious Jazz Bar: Av, 20 de Octubre # 2172, Sopocachi, La Paz, Bolivia / Contact: Juan Pereira and/or Juan Carlos Carrasco / Teléfono: (591-2) 2424405 Cell: (591) 77564742 / monk.thelonius.monk@gmail.com or http://www.theloniousclub.com
A small, intimate jazz club located at an altitude of 4000m presenting all forms of live jazz and blues. The walls are decked out with artwork of jazz musicians and the atmosphere is relaxed and inviting – you could be forgiven for thinking you’re in a candlelit club in New Orleans rather than in La Paz.
On Mondays and Tuesdays there’s no cover and you can listen to groups practice, and local and international artists perform Wednesday through Saturday. Open from 9:00pm – 4:00am. Drinks and snacks.
Bebop fans love this charmingly low-key bar for its live and often impromptu performances and great atmosphere. A flier on the wall promotes forthcoming sessions. There is an annual jazz festival held here the first two weeks of September.
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The Jazz Station: 124 W Broadway, Eugene, Oregon. The Jazz Station is a non-profit cooperatively operated jazz performance venue run by the Willamette Jazz Society. Originally launched in 2005 at 68 W. Broadway, in April of 2011 the society inaugurated its current space. The society hosts weekly family-oriented jam sessions and concerts that feature member musicians.
Located in the heart of downtown Eugene, The Jazz Station is open to musicians of all ages and encourages aspiring musicians from beginner to expert to participate in our events to hone their performance skills and meet other local musicians.
All of our events are open to the public and begin at 7:30PM and end by 10PM. We serve light refreshments in a “coffeehouse” style, and our venue is primarily a listening room for the music.
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La Zorra y el Cuervo: (English – The Vixen and the Raven) Calle 23 Esq. a O, El Vedado. Havana, Cuba / Telephone: (53 7) 66-2402. Every day, 21.00-04.00. Directions: Rampa Habanera. Three blocks from the Habana Libre Hotel down the street.
Here, you drink and dance with live jazz music. Prominent Cuban jazz bands come to this place to perform their music. The night becomes a discharge of energy. Normal dress requirements for a tropical night.