Jazzkeller Frankfurt - Europe’s oldest private Jazz Club since 1952: Jazz Jam Session [4K]

#jazz #jazzclub #frankfurt "The Jazzkeller · Frankfurt / Main - Since 1952 Located in a basement grotto on Kleine Bockenheimer Strasse 18a (in the heart of the city, near Goethestrasse) has played host to most of the world's greatest jazz musicians over the past forty-seven years. Memories of many unforgetable events are forever captured in the JAZZKELLER`s red brick walls... Johnny Hodges drew his own beer from our tap. Louis Armstrong spilled red wine all over his tuxedo, trying to maneuver through the crowd. Dizzy Gillespie had some difficulty blowing his horn after we provided too many complimentary drinks (sometimes we are too hospitable!) - and on another truly memorable evening Lionel Hampton played "four hand" piano with German jazz pianist Jutta Hipp. Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, Percy Heath, even Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra (with his bodyguard of course) came to the JAZZKELLER and electrified the air. While a soldier in the US-Army, Eddie Harris was swingin' and boppin' many nights after duty hours...Just some of the magic memories of the JAZZKELLER's legendary history during the "Fabulous Fifties". Many of the great names in jazz kept coming back: Eddie Harris, in his early sixties, performed here twice a year, as our "commercial guest", playing Funk and Rockjazz on his electric saxophone. The late Chet Baker gave one of his last concerts on our stage; Dizzy Gillespie reminisced with the audience about the past when he came to perform in December 1988... The JAZZKELLER is still THE place for live jazz in Germany, it is Frankfurt's "Village Vanguard". Throughout the year you can see, feel and hear some of the world's greatest in jazz, up close, in a relaxed "jazzy" atmosphere. Archie Shepp, Flora Purim, Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Brown, Lou Donaldson and Clark Terry are just some of our more recent artists. In addition to top names in jazz, many excellent local jazz musicians perform here as well. Though small size, the JAZZKELLER is equipped with a first class grand piano, a superb sound system, air conditioning and a rustic but "gemütliche" ambience.We offer one of Germany's finest beers "LICHER PILS", quality wines, cocktails, soft drinks, espresso... Every night, see the monthly program flyer (Monday and Tuesday, - unless we offer a good concert - we're usually closed), our international clientele is welcome to enyoy the JAZZKELLER's unique, jazzy atmosphere of the 50's with comfort of today." - https://www.europejazz.net/club/jazzkeller-frankfurt 00:00:00 Jazzkeller 00:01:42 Piano tunning 00:02:16 Old Fashioned - € 15 (Dec. 2023) 00:02:40 Jazz Jam Session - First set 00:15:43 Gaea Olives and Chips - € 6 (Dec.2023) 00:15:57 Faust Crafted Pils Beer 0.33L - € 5 (Dec. 2023) 00:26:22 Piano tunning 00:26:49 Jazz Jam Session - Second set

Jazz Café Alto, Amsterdam, Netherlands - The Fours: Latin & Funk - Live Jazz every day since 1953!

#jazz #amsterdam #netherlands 00:00:00 Walking in 00:00:18 The Bar 00:01:15 The Fours: jazz, latin, funk 00:06:42 Walking Out "Welcome to the official website of Jazz Café Alto! If you are looking for some serious live jazz performances; Jazz Café Alto is the place to be. Jazz Café Alto is located in the city center, a thirty second crawl from the Leidseplein. Our concept is unique; we bring you live jazz and blues performances seven days a week which go on till the early hours of the morning. Entertainment guaranteed. We host young upcoming talented musicians as well as very experienced musicians and everything in between. We hope to see you soon so we can give you the experience of a lifetime with our live music performances. Doors open every day at 9pm." - http://www.jazz-cafe-alto.nl/home/ "Café Alto is a small brown-café style place hidden away in the touristy restaurant area just off Leidseplein. Each night, a mix of regulars and tourists come here to ease back with a whiskey or well-mixed cocktail, and listen to the rhythms provided by top jazz musicians. Cafe Alto Amsterdam Jazz ClubSince many years back, this intimate, dark and dusty little venue has attracted jazz enthusiasts from all over the world to Amsterdam. Many of the big names in jazz have entered the small stage over the years, and you can be sure to be regaled talented local groups and settings any day of the week. Jazz and free-jazz dominates the musical agenda although blues bands have gigs from time to time. Much appreciated Dutch saxophonist Hans Dulfer performs here every Wednesday, sometimes accompanied by his equally talented daughter, Candy Dulfer. Café Alto remains the only walk-in bar to offer live jazz every night of the week in Amsterdam and is definitely an unavoidable jazz venue. Be sure to get there early, and you might have a chance to score a table close to the stage. Doors open at 9 pm all nights of the week. Music starts at 10 pm and plays the whole night through, to 3 am on weekdays and 4 am on weekends. When finding your way there, look for a large saxophone high upon the façade. Don’t miss out on this little piece of heaven!" - https://www.amsterdam.info/music/cafe-alto/ "Hidden amongst the tourist restaurants and bars, Café- Alto can be spotted by the huge saxophone which hangs above its entrance (on a road just off just off Leidseplein). Duck into this cool and cosy bar. The friendly bar staff will make you feel more than welcome and you slip back to 1920s. Look up to the ceiling and all around, as you begin to see this intimate jazz bar hung with photos of iconic musicians. Even if you claim that Jazz isn’t your cup of tea, this bar will heavily change your perspective on it, once you enter you’ll never want to leave! Whilst Jazz dominates the musical agenda although blues bands play from time to time. If you’re fitting a visit into a busy schedule, try and make a Wednesday. This is because the locals favourite jazz quintet plays beats which will make you want to move your feet!" - https://www.divento.com/en/home/10667-cafe-alto-amsterdam-all-year.html

Birdland Jazz Club, New York City - Wednesday Night jazz: Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night

Birdland Jazz Club, New York City - Wednesday Night jazz: Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night in the Theater + Special Guest Henry Acker "BIRDLAND HISTORY Ever since most of Chicago’s top musicians moved to New York in the mid-to-late 1920s, New York City has been the Jazz Mecca. Nearly every major jazz style of the past seventy years has been initiated in the Big Apple. It was Charlie Parker, familiarly known to his fans and fellow musicians as “Bird,” a contraction of Yardbird, his formal nickname, who was the dynamic creative personality and genius of the alto saxophone who served as the inspiration for Birdland. The Early Days of Jazz in NYC When the original Birdland opened in December of 1949, Charlie Parker was the headliner and the club was located on Broadway, a block west of the 52nd Street scene, which was a hotbed of jazz in the 1930s and 40s. Miraculously, just as the scene on 52nd Street caved in, Birdland was born and quickly came to prominence. For the next fifteen years, the club’s survival formula was built upon memorable double and triple bills, commencing at 9 p.m. and sometimes lasting ’til dawn. In addition to Bird, many jazz legends were regulars at the club. Count Basie and his smokin’ big band made Birdland their New York headquarters, eventually recording George Shearing’s “Lullaby of Birdland” live at the club. John Coltrane’s classic Quartet regularly appeared at the club in the early 1960s, recording “Live at Birdland.” And the famous DJ, Symphony Sid Torin made a name for himself broadcasting live from the club to radio listeners up and down the eastern seaboard. ... Birdland’s booking history reads like a who’s who of jazz: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Erroll Garner, and many, many others. Considering the excitement that Birdland generated on a daily basis, it’s no surprise that the club attracted its share of celebrities. Regulars to the nightly festivities included such household names as Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Joe Louis, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Sugar Ray Robinson. ... But as a new popular music, Rock & Roll emerged, Birdland’s fortunes declined in the 60’s and its doors were closed on Broadway and 52nd in 1965. After many 5 am nights, the club needed to take a nap. ... Now, half a century later, the Birdland banner has been reborn in midtown and called, “close to perfection for serious fans and musicians,” by The New York Times. After a decade of neighborhood success on the Upper West Side, John decided to move the club back to Midtown. The new Birdland offers top-flight jazz in a world class setting, good sight lines and acoustics, elbow room, and an award-winning menu featuring American cuisine with a Cajun flair. Modern Jazz in Manhattan Since the reemergence of the club, midtown Manhattan has been treated to some of the best jazz on the planet, including memorable sets by such musicians as Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes, Michel Legrand, Dave Brubeck, Pat Martino, Tony Williams, Hank Jones, Michel Petrucciani, Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, Marian McPartland, John Pizzarelli, Kurt Elling, Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Jon Hendricks, George Shearing, James Moody, Yellowjackets, John Scofield, Phoebe Snow, Dave Holland, and Tito Puente, as well as the big bands of Chico O’Farrill, Duke Ellington, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Maria Schneider. In addition, Birdland is home to such popular musical events as the Umbria Jazz Festival in NYC and the Annual Django Reinhardt NY Festival. Over the past two decades, Birdland has expanded it’s musical outreach with the Broadway at Birdland concert series, shining a spotlight on Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Betty Buckley, Christine Ebersole, Barbara Cook, Ariana DeBose, Glenn Close, Melissa Manchester, and thousands more. Jim Caruso’s Cast Party, our weekly impromptu variety show, has helped make Birdland the late-night place to rub shoulders with show folk every Monday since 2004. And the 2018 addition of the state-of-the-art Birdland Theater has made it possible to include Broadway superstars, burlesque, comedy, cabaret divas, jazz legends and the most buzzed-about up-and-comers to our schedule. Since 1949, Birdland has established itself as an essential part of New York City culture and musical history." - https://birdlandjazz.com/history/ "It’s the best jazz guitar lover’s show in the world, celebrating all facets of the guitar in jazz. Frank Vignola’s virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Tommy Emmanuel, the Boston and New York Pops, and more.." - https://birdlandjazz.com/event/frank-vignolas-guitar-night-in-the-theater-6/ #jazz #newyork #jazzclub

Dizzy's Club, New York City - Tuesday Night Jazz: GREG REITAN TRIO

"Dizzy's Club offers live jazz performances with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, a warm ambiance, and a delicious seasonal menu. Dizzy’s Club soars several stories above the expansive vista of New York City’s Central Park." - https://2022.jazz.org/dizzys-club "Pianist, Composer and Steinway Artist Greg Reitan returns to Dizzy’s Club to perform selections from his latest release, West 60th, on Sunnyside Records. Greg was a finalist in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and the 1996 Hennessy Cognac Jazz Search in New York. In 2002, he won the inaugural ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. Reitan is also the recipient of the prestigious Copland House Award which featured a month-long composing residency at Aaron Copland’s historic home and studio in the spring of 2019. ... "Reitan possesses blazing chops, which are put to excellent purpose on his fifth CD. His compositions are thoughtful yet never mawkish, while his prodigious technique takes his longtime trio of bassist Jack Daro and drummer Dean Koba down unexpected paths. The trio plays as a seasoned unit, a rare thing in any jazz environment.”- Ken Micallef, JazzTimes Magazine" - https://2022.jazz.org/greg-reitan-trio #jazz #newyork #jazzclub

The Village Vanguard, New York City: Monday Night Jazz - Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

"It has become, perhaps, the most famous basement in New York City. The small room with low ceilings and remarkable acoustics has staged more than 100 live commercial recordings, several of which are essential works in the history of jazz on record. The Village Vanguard, open since 1935, is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in the world." - https://www.npr.org/2008/08/27/94034531/the-village-vanguard-a-hallowed-basement “There’s no other place on the planet where so many greats played for so many years, and that’s one of those statements that seems like hyperbole, but it’s not,” said Loren Schoenberg, the artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. “It’s really the only quote unquote holy place left in jazz—period.” - https://observer.com/2015/02/as-the-village-vanguard-turns-80-it-remains-new-yorks-most-cherished-jazz-club/ "The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra began its life as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1966.The world-famous Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City booked the newly formed band for three Monday nights that February. Those performances were wildly successful and the engagement was extended indefinitely. The Village Vanguard’s owner, Max Gordon, told Mel Lewis, “We’ll keep it going until it tapers off.” Over half a century and more than 2700 Monday nights later, it still hasn’t. The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra stands apart from all other modern ensembles of its kind and is still as strong and vital as ever." - https://villagevanguard.com/ #jazz #newyork #jazzclub