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    Minton's Playhouse is a jazz club and bar located on the first floor of the Cecil Hotel at 210 West 118th Street in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It...
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    or bebop. Some of the participants in early after-hours affairs at Minton's Playhouse, an after-hours club located in the Hotel Cecil at 210 West 118th...
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  • (1850–1907), American classical scholar Minton (surname) Mintons, an English pottery manufacturing company Minton's Playhouse, a bar and jazz club in New York...
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    at Minton's Playhouse, a Manhattan nightclub. Much of Monk's style (in the Harlem stride tradition) was developed while he performed at Minton's where...
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  • Minton (1870–1946), African-American doctor Henry Minton, American saxophonist, founder of Minton's Playhouse This disambiguation page lists articles about...
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  • Midnight at Minton's is an album by jazz musician Don Byas, first released in 1973. It is a live recording of a 1941 jam session at Minton's Playhouse, the New...
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    32-bar Latin-tune in AABA-form that was originally titled "Playhouse" (as a dedication to Minton's, where Monk was the house pianist in the early 1940s with...
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    Sylvia's Restaurant, the Hamilton Grange, the Morris–Jumel Mansion, Minton's Playhouse, Sugar Hill, Riverside Church, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem...
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  • Up at "Minton's", Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related live albums by American jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded on February 23, 1961...
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  • or simply Monroe's, was a nightclub in New York City. Along with Minton's Playhouse, it was one of the two principal jazz clubs in the early history of...
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    regular after-hours jam at Minton's Playhouse in New York City that ran in the 1940s and early 1950s. The jam sessions at Minton's were a fertile meeting...
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    Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, in front of Minton's Playhouse in New York City, wearing zoot suits....
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    kindred spirits developing the new music gravitated to sessions at Minton's Playhouse, where Monk and Clarke were in the house band, and Monroe's Uptown...
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  • Newman recorded pianist Thelonious Monk performing the tune in 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, a nightclub closely connected with early bebop, and he subsequently...
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    Cleveland, Ohio) was an American big band leader and the manager of Minton's Playhouse, a seminal jazz club in Harlem. He played a variety of instruments...
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  • The Telegraph. 21 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024. Roy Minton at IMDb Roy Minton’s Blog. Scum (TV drama) at the BFI's Screenonline 625.org biography...
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    New Orleans Blue Note Birdland Seventh Avenue South Savoy Ballroom Minton's Playhouse Cotton Club Club Riviera Peacock Alley Club Plantation Howard Theater...
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  • Street Inn Cecil Hotel, New York City, the site of the jazz club Minton's Playhouse Cecil (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    music of Brahms and Chopin. At age 13, he was taken to New York's Minton Playhouse, where bebop was born, and he experienced some bop pioneers including...
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    establish his drumming style and reputation. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after-hours jams that led...
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    Thelonious Monk discography Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, NYC, ca. Sept. 1947...
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  • Guy was a regular performer as a member of the after-hours band at Minton's Playhouse, alongside Nick Fenton, Kenny Clarke, and Thelonious Monk in jam sessions...
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    amateur direct-to-disc recordings of Charlie Christian jamming at Minton's Playhouse around the same time have a sustained snare-drum backbeat on the hottest...
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  • to improve their own skills. Clubs like Monroe’s Uptown House and Minton’s Playhouse became the public home for the phenomena that already took place in...
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  • trumpet when he was nine years old, and heard bebop performances at Minton's Playhouse as a teenager, including Dizzy Gillespie. His first ensemble was Al...
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  • much of their time in New York jazz clubs such as the Royal Roost, Minton's Playhouse, Birdland and the Open Door, "shooting the breeze" and "digging the...
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    night residency the Harlem jazz venue formerly known as Minton's Playhouse (now called "Minton's Harlem"). The Biggish Band was also given the honor of...
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    numerous jam sessions and "trumpet battles" with Eldridge at New York's Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s. Referring to Eldridge, Dizzy went so far as to...
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  • with the Royal Barons in 1937, but he did not find performing at Minton's Playhouse a few years later a very happy experience, as the competitive environment...
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    Thelonious Monk and Howard McGhee, Minton's Playhouse, c. September 1947...
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