Just about all of the great jazz clubs described in The Boston Jazz Chronicles were inside the Boston city limits....
May 30, 1971: Fire Closes Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike
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Sabby, Symphony Sid and WBMS
May 12, 1952, was the start of busy week for Norman Furman, the general manager at Boston’s WHEE radio, 1090 on the AM...
Apr 20, 1959: Lady Day’s Last Visit
Billie Holiday opened her last engagement in Boston on April 20, 1959, at Storyville. For Holiday, who had not worked...
Apr 15, 1981: Michael’s Jazz Club Closes
The days approaching Tax Day have sometimes been troubled ones for Boston’s jazz clubs. Take the Willow, for instance....
When Soft Winds Blew at the Darbury Room
Come the month of March, all New England is yearning for the warmer southern winds. For several years, however, our...
Mar 13, 1950: “The High Priest of Bebop” at the Hi-Hat
Thelonious Monk first worked in Boston with Coleman Hawkins at the Savoy, in March 1944. Six years later he returned...
February 27: Blues for Tinker’s
Nightclub owner John Tinker wanted to bring live music to Tremont Street in the South End, and he did that, twice. The...
Feb 22, 1960: Held Over! Herman Chittison at the Mayfair Lounge
Herman Chittison, a stride-school pianist who played a gorgeous melody, spent close to two years in Boston in 1959-61....
Dec 31: On the Town, Boston Jazz Chronicles Edition
Last week I watched Alastair Sim as Scrooge in the 1951 film, A Christmas Carol, and seeing poor Scrooge dragged...