Clark Monroe's Uptown House

Clark Monroe 's Uptown House and Monroe 's Uptown House was a New York nightclub in Harlem ( " Uptown ", 198 West 134th Street) and next to Minton 's Playhouse one of the " hotbeds " of bebop.

The club was opened in 1936 by Clark Monroe, a dancer, among his friends as " Dark Gable " known. In the same building was formerly the Barron's Club, where Duke Ellington appeared in the 1920s. In the 1930s was played in Monroe 's Club Swing Jazz and Billie Holiday was in 1937 engaged a few months. In the 1940s there jam sessions were held that brought together as in Minton 's Playhouse Jazz musicians to their regular engagements and in the " dark years " of the Recording Ban the birthplace of bebop were. The club had a house band with pianist Al Tinney (from the late 1930s ). Charlie Parker played there a lot in 1941 and Max Roach. 1943 Monroe joined the club. He moved to the 52nd Street ( ie "Downtown" ), whereas in the mid- 1940s shifted the center of jazz music-making in New York, where he founded in December 1944 the Spotlite, where from 1946 played Dizzy Gillespie's band.