• Friar's Inn (also called New Friar's Inn) was a nightclub and speakeasy in Chicago, Illinois, a famed jazz music venue in the 1920s. Though some sources...
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    the Friar's Inn, which lasted 17 months beginning in 1921. During this time the group performed as the Friar's Society Orchestra. While at the Friar's Inn...
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  • University, also known as "The Friars Club" Friar's Inn, a 1920s jazz venue in Chicago, called "Friars Club" in some sources "The Friar's Club", the 128th episode...
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    session with a band called "Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra" - a name that referred to the Friar's Inn club where the N.O.R.K. had first played...
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    Chicago, and joined a band of his New Orleans friends playing at the Friar's Inn; this was the band that became famous as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings...
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    the 1920s, including The New Orleans Rhythm Kings who began playing at Friar's Inn. However, in 1920, the cabaret business began in New York City and the...
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    (HMV 5027, UK, 1927, aka Savoy Havana Band) 6. Merrit Brunies & His Friar's Inn Orchestra on Okeh 40593, 3/2/26 A full reproduction of the original sheet...
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  • At first, the band was known as the Friar's Society Orchestra after forming to play a gig in Chicago at Friar's Inn, but changed their name to the New...
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    became a member of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. For a time during its Friar's Inn residency/ the NORK used a two-cornet format – Paul Mares, leader and...
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  • afterward in 1916). Following this, he formed another group which played at Friar's Inn in Chicago directly after the stint by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings....
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  • the 1920s. In 1921, he joined the famous New Orleans Rhythm Kings at Friar's Inn in Chicago. With this band, he participated to the first-ever interracial...
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    Abbey Lounge Booches Cafe D'Mongo's Speakeasy Costello's The Chatham Friar's Inn The Fours Giger Bar KGB Krazy Kat Klub Lucky Lou's Marie's Rip Tide Lounge...
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    to jazz bands at night clubs and speakeasies, including the infamous Friar's Inn, where he sometimes sat in with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. He also...
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    Elmer Schoebel of the Friar's Society Orchestra. It was used as the band's theme music, and their performances at the Friar's Inn influenced several younger...
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    town incorporated in 1852, its name was changed to "Friar's Point"[when?] to honor Robert Friar, an early settler, legislator, and businessman who sold...
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  • performed with a number of other ensembles such as Merritt Brunies and his Friar's Inn Orchestra. Mecum wrote the lyrics for the song "Angry" which was composed...
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    (HMV 5027, UK, 1927, aka Savoy Havana Band) 6. Merrit Brunies & His Friar's Inn Orchestra on Okeh 40593, 3/2/26. An exhibit of early-twentieth-century...
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  • Club: 4  Bee Hive The Black Orchid Club DeLisa Constellation Jazz Club: 4  Friar's Inn (1920s) Green Mill Cocktail Lounge: 4  HotHouse Hungry Brain: 4  The...
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    Kings, and Oliver's band were popular at the Lincoln Gardens and the Friar's Inn nightclubs and had been sent by train to rural Richmond by Chicago, Illinois...
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    (HMV 5027, UK, 1927, aka Savoy Havana Band) 6. Merrit Brunies & His Friar's Inn Orchestra on Okeh 40593, 3/2/26 A full reproduction of the original sheet...
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  • jazz men, including the New Orleans Rhythm Kings who began playing at Friar's Inn. Additionally, following Prohibition in 1920, the cabaret business began...
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    banjo) and Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (saxophone) who began playing at the Friar's Inn in Chicago. Meanwhile, on the New York scene, Duke Ellington arrived...
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  • over and over. Then and there, they named their band "The Blue Friars," after The Friar's Inn on the Chicago Loop where the Rhythm Kings played. The Austin...
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  • sometimes diverges from Chaucer. For example, "The Friar's Tale" is significantly expanded upon: where the Friar leads in with a general account of the archdeacon's...
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  • Bellson Sound (Verve, 1959) With Art Hodes Hodes' Art (Delmark, 1968–72) Friar's Inn Revisited (Delmark, 1968–72) Curry, John (2003). "Parham, Truck [Charles...
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    The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed public house on Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former...
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    The George Inn, or The George, is a public house established in the medieval period on Borough High Street in Southwark, London, owned and leased by the...
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    Pub names (redirect from Dolphin Inn)
    valuable and sometimes worn as a sign of status. Bald Faced Stag Inn, Finchley. An inn notorious as frequented by murderers in the past. Barking Dogs,...
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    have been members of a Hellfire Club that met at the George and Vulture Inn throughout the 1730s. Dashwood founded the Order of the Knights of St Francis...
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    The Tabard (redirect from The Tabard Inn)
    The Tabard was an inn in Southwark established in 1307, which stood on the east side of Borough High Street, at the road's intersection with the ancient...
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