A report on Village Vanguard
Jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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Thelonious Monk
6 linksAmerican jazz pianist and composer.
American jazz pianist and composer.
In September of the same year, Lorraine approached Max Gordon, the owner and founder of the Village Vanguard and secured Monk his first gig there.
Max Gordon (Village Vanguard founder)
2 linksMax Gordon (1903 – May 11, 1989) was a jazz promoter and founder of the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City.
Bill Evans
3 linksAmerican jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked as the leader of a trio.
American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked as the leader of a trio.
In 1961, two albums were recorded at an engagement at New York's Village Vanguard jazz club, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby; a complete set of the Vanguard recordings on 3CDs was issued decades later.
John Coltrane
4 linksAmerican jazz saxophonist and composer.
American jazz saxophonist and composer.
The quintet had a celebrated and extensively recorded residency at the Village Vanguard, which demonstrated Coltrane's new direction.
Miles Davis
4 linksAmerican trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
In June 1981, Davis returned to the stage for the first time since 1975 in a ten-minute guest solo as part of Mel Lewis's band at the Village Vanguard.
Lorraine Gordon
2 linksLorraine Gordon (née Stein; October 15, 1922 – June 9, 2018) was an American jazz music advocate, the owner of the Village Vanguard jazz club in Greenwich Village, New York City, and the author of a memoir on jazz music.
The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
2 linksJazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965.
Jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965.
They have maintained a Monday-night residency at the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York for five decades.
Mel Lewis
2 linksAmerican jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author.
American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author.
The group started as informal jam sessions with the top studio and jazz musicians of the city, but eventually began performing regularly on Monday nights at the famed venue, the Village Vanguard.
Thad Jones
2 linksAmerican jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists".
American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists".
They began performing at the Village Vanguard in February 1966, to wide acclaim, and continued with Jones in the lead for 12 years.
Sonny Rollins
3 linksAmerican jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
Reviewing a March 1972 performance at New York's Village Vanguard night club, The New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett wrote that Rollins "had changed again. He had become a whirlwind. His runs roared, and there were jarring staccato passages and furious double-time spurts. He seemed to be shouting and gesticulating on his horn, as if he were waving his audience into battle."