Michael Weiss Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 I have a poster on my wall from Slugs. What an amazing variety of groups: February 1 Bobby Hutcherson Quartet with vocalist Felice Zellea February 2 John Gilmore Quartet February 3 Jim Spaulding Quartet February 4-5 Kenny Dorham Quartet February 6 Albert Dailey Quartet with vocalist Marcel Daniels February 7 Harold Vick Quartet February 8 Sonny Redd Quartet February 9 Roland Alexander Quartet February 10 Elmo Hope Quartet February 11-12 Grachan Moncur Quartet February 13 Calo Scott Quartet February 14 Frankie Dunlap Quartet February 15 Walter Davis Quartet with vocalist Mayme Watts February 16 Vera Auer Quartet February 17 Gary Bartz Quartet February 18-19 Hank Mobley Quartet February 20 Lonnie Smith Quartet with vocalist Estella Williams February 21 Benny Powell Quartet February 22 Burton Greene Quartet February 23 Manny Smith Quartet February 24 Albert Ayler Quartet February 25-26 Mal Waldron Quartet February 27 Joe Farrell Quartet February 28 C Sharpe Quartet with vocalist China Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Man, who are those vocalists? What great variety. Miss that in the world of jazz these days. Nowadays it seems a club is one thing or another but not everything (or maybe that's the audience). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 boy, does that list bring back great memories!! i was at slug's very often during 1966! in fact, i met my husband-to-be there in 1965! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 I would have attended pretty much every night, and gone broke or been stabbed, whichever came first. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Slugs was amazing - I saw Mingus and Ornette there, around 1969 or 1970. I found out later that Jean Genet was in attendance at a lot of the Mingus performances, but in those days I didn't know of him - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Slugs was amazing - I saw Mingus and Ornette there, around 1969 or 1970. I found out later that Jean Genet was in attendance at a lot of the Mingus performances, but in those days I didn't know of him - ...was he living here at this time? Great line-up btw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I can't recall now what the circumstances were, but I think Sue Mingus talks about this in Tonight at Noon - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Slugs was amazing - I saw Mingus and Ornette there, around 1969 or 1970. I found out later that Jean Genet was in attendance at a lot of the Mingus performances, but in those days I didn't know of him - I used to play around the corner from Slugs. Like 30 years later.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Where can I pick up tickets?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyJazz Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Where can I pick up tickets?? No tix necessary. Just walk in, sit down at a table or at the bar and pay the cover and your bill when you left. I didn't get to Slugs until 1970 but saw a few great acts there: Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, and of course, Lee Morgan (including his final performance). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 year? '66 or 7 perhaps?!? maybe 68? NOW-9/10: LARRY YOUNG QUARTET 9/12-9/17: ALBERT AYLER QUINTET 9/19-9/24: LEE MORGAN QUINTET 9/26-10-1: THE JAZZ COMMUNICATIONS (incl. Hubbard, Henderson, Louis Hayes) 10/3-10/8: SONNY RED QUINTET (w/ Timmons, T. Turrentine) ------ EVERY MON: SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO-INFINITY MUSIC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 MartyJazz: for those of us who didnt expierence slugs, can you tell us about it a little more. i heard that it was miles and miles away from any of the main neighboorhoods, and in order to reach it you had to go into a pretty much ABANDONED neighborhood-- can you recall any more about slugs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 oh, and one more thought about slugs: slugs does come off as being the "mintons" for the blue note scene-- all the posters/flyers ive seen are all blue note guys. was this really considered 'their' place at the time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 When I visited New York in the mid-sixties, I went to Slug's pretty often. Great place to hang and listen to incredible music. I heard Jackie McLean, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra (on Monday evenings the first time around, then a full week the second time around)perform there. Also heard Charles Lloyd - did not care much for him - with a quartet that had Herbie Hancock, Henry Grimes, Pete LaRoca The neighborhood was very colorful but pretty safe around then. I know this did not last very long! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 (edited) in 1969 and 1970 the neighborhood was full of Hell's Angels - and pretty dangerous, actually, as I recall. In those pre-gentrified days the East Village was deserted and creepy - not safe at all - the other thing I recall is Mingus's son standing at the bar showing someone one of his paintings. Of all the great things I saw there (probably 1970) the most amazing was Ornette with Dewey Redman and Charlie Haden. We were absolutely knocked out by the music though we didn't quite understand it. Haden very kindly came over to us between sets and bascially explained how he played with Ornette. Amazing night - Edited December 29, 2005 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hawkins Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I wonder who was in that John Gilmore quartet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 This is a pretty cool thread - would love to have seen any/all of the gigs mentioned... I too would like to know who was in the Gilmore quartet. Maybe analogous to the "Turkish Women at the Bath" date? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Anyone know the origin of the name? Any of you who were there see Charles Tolliver when he recorded those great sets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Here is a flyer I have from Slugs in 1967....hell of a lineup! m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 :rlol Here is a flyer I have from Slugs in 1967....hell of a lineup! m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcello Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 I found these on the web. Don't know the year: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 look at this one: how all the saxophonists are in the corners, and every monday...in the middle of this psychedelic trip of a poster, holding everything else together...sun ra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Ho hum, another boring month in New York...McLean, Shorter, Henderson, Lateef...been there, done that... look at this one: how all the saxophonists are in the corners, and every monday...in the middle of this psychedelic trip of a poster, holding everything else together...sun ra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 look at this one: how all the saxophonists are in the corners, and every monday...in the middle of this psychedelic trip of a poster, holding everything else together...sun ra. . Wow! Thanks! I wish I could have caught that when I was 9 or 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 The time machine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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