Black Hawk (nightclub)
The Black Hawk was a jazz club in San Francisco, which existed from 1949 to 1963.
The Jazz Club Black Hawk was one of the most famous venues for jazz in San Francisco during its existence from 1949 until 1963. He was corner of Turk Street and Hyde Street in the Tenderloin district. Owner of the club were Guido Caccienti and Johnny and Helen Noga. The intimate club atmosphere was ideal for small jazz groups. 1959 was unable to pay fees of $ 300 to over $ 3,000 per week to the club for jazz events. A number of musicians participated albums on here; including Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, Thelonious Monk, Shelly Manne and Mongo Santamaría. Billie Holiday and Lester Young who here gave their last concert on the west coast, the Modern Jazz Quartet his first. Charlie Parker also took in to a jam session in the Black Hawk. Other famous musicians who appeared here were, inter alia, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Johnny Mathis, Art Blakey, Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Art Farmer, Gerry Mulligan, Horace Parlan, and Russ Freeman. Art Tatum was here in the last 18 months of his life concerts; he played in 1955 in the Black Hawk.
The sessions on Sunday afternoon in the Black Hawk gave younger musicians the opportunity for performances. After such a concert, co-owner Helen Noga decided to manage the young singer Johnny Mathis. You could George Avakian, the A & R Manager at Columbia Records, was convinced to come to San Francisco and to hear him. Avakian sent after the concert at the corporate headquarters, the telegram. " Have found phenomenal 19 - year-old boy who could go all the way" to the point where the Black Hawk was, is now a parking lot. Since 2012, recalls a bronze plaque at the former club.