"Live at Cafe Bohemia" on Night Lights

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This past week's Night Lights show, "Live at Cafe Bohemia," is up for online listening:

 

Live at Cafe Bohemia: Hardbop in the Heart of Greenwich Village

 

Coming up this week: "Claude Thornhill: Godfather of Cool"

Edited June 12, 2018 by ghost of miles

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Post updated with some quotes I came across in Downbeat last night from George Avakian, Billy Taylor and Roswell Rudd, as well as some more background info on the part Charlie Parker played in the Bohemia's switch to a live-jazz policy.

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We're re-airing Live At Cafe Bohemia this week; it's already archived for online listening.

 

Next week: "Daddy-O! Father-and-Son Teams in Jazz."

 

Also, the Night Lights annual online fund-drive continues. I'll be posting two special fund-drive programs, "Good Vibes" and "The Prestige Records Story," in the next couple of weeks. Thanks to those who who have given to the drive; please consider making a contribution if you haven't already done so! Even just a few bucks helps us out.

Edited November 5, 2019 by ghost of miles

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Up in honor of the club's reopening after 60 years:

Live At Cafe Bohemia: Hardbop In The Heart Of Greenwich Village

[BFrank]

Another great Bohemia album

[Brad]

Another winning program by GOM. 

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2 hours ago, Brad said:

Another winning program by GOM. 

You’re far too kind!  I need to finally get in gear with a long-planned show about the Five Spot, which will include comments from David Amram and Dan Wakefield (the latter a writer who hung out at the Five Spot frequently in the late 1950s and who wrote a memoir called New York In The Fifties). Coming in January, if all goes as planned. And I am going to at least pop my head in the door of the newly-reopened Cafe Bohemia when I’m in town for the Jazz Congress.

14 hours ago, BFrank said:

Another great Bohemia album

Love this record! There’s music from it in the show.