Five Spot Café

The Five Spot was a jazz club in New York City's East Village at the corner of Cooper Square to St. Marks Place. Previously, he was at the Cooper Square 5 3 to 4 Street ( further south towards Bowery ), where he was for decades with some other use in the possession of the Termini family; the time of the jazz clubs he belonged to the brothers Joey and Iggy Termini. The second Five Spot club was to Williams relatively generous for a New York jazz club with the stage opposite the one side of the club engaging bar and an official capacity of 223 guests. The old Five Spot, however, grew out of a pub and was confined. Jazz was played there after the mid-1950s artists from Greenwich Village moved to the area because they could live cheaper here, and thus revaluing the old Bowery image. You pressed the Termini brothers from their pub to make a jazz club. The first groups that played in the old Five Spot ( around 1957 ) were Cecil Taylor ( quartet with Steve Lacy ), David Amram (including with Valdo Williams ) Randy Weston and Charles Mingus. In the summer of 1957 Thelonious Monk played there for seven months ( for the first time after regaining his appearance license which he had lost in 1951 ) with John Coltrane, Shadow Wilson and Wilbur Ware, what the club gave attention and also Monks initiated rediscovery. Later Monk played there often and took there several albums Live on ( as Misterioso 1958 with Johnny Griffin, Ahmed Abdul- Malik, Roy Haynes ). Another highlight was the six-week engagement of the quartet of Ornette Coleman in November 1959 ( with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins), the first appearance of the jazz innovator in New York. The last performance in the old Five Spot had 1962 Charles Mingus. In between ( about 1960 ) had to operate the terminis also tried a bigger club ( Jazz Gallery, 80 St. Marks ), but then abandoned. After closing the old Five Spot the terminis opened their new club on Cooper Square, previously softcover architects and Jazz Author Hsio Wen Shih in the organization. It was opened as a club with a longer commitment of Monk.

Other live recordings are, among others, Eric Dolphy (At the Five Spot with Booker Little in July 1961, they played there for two weeks). The composition " Five Spot After Dark" by Benny Golson was born after a commitment of Golson in the club. Monk also named a composition according to the club ( " Five Spot Blues ").

In place of the old Five Spot on St. Marks Place in April 1973 opened a jazz club The Two Saints ( with the band of Charles Mingus ).