Sunset Cafe
The Sunset Cafe, later Grand Terrace Cafe was a jazz club in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Sunset Cafe is one of the most important American jazz clubs of the past century. He was also among the many clubs in Chicago such as the Apex Club, Dreamland, the Plantation Cafe and the Lincoln Gardens one of the few places of entertainment Chicago, where no segregation ( segregation) insisted. Here, African- and Euro - Americans could meet, without fear of reprisals.
The club building was in the 315 E 35th St in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. The building, which was originally built in 1909 as a car garage was converted into a jazz club in 1921 and opened by Edward Fox and Sam Rivas on August 3 this year. Later it was owned by Joe Glaser, later manager of Louis Armstrong. The Sunset Cafe first appeared on bands like the Arthur Sims, Sammy Stuart and Carroll Dickerson, but soon more important musicians in jazz history as Chicago until 1928 was a center of jazz innovation. African-American artists such as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway Johnny Dodds and Earl " Fatha " Hines occurred there; white musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa jammed with. They used the club for their national careers. For example, Armstrong emerged only recordings with the Hot Five at the time when he started to play at the Sunset Cafe.
Under Louis Armstrong also the career of twenty years of Cab Calloway began; of 1928 was the then 25 -year-old Earl Hines for twelve years, until the club, " controlled" by Al Capone, was renamed The Grand Terrace Cafe. The club also demanding revues have been performed, such as the on Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Rhapsody -building in Black.
Under Earl Hines as a bandleader at the Sunset Cafe there also occurred Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine, just as the dancer Bill " Bojangles " Robinson. The performances of the Hines band at the Grand Terrace Cafe were sent back in radio across America.
1950 joined the club forever. In contrast to New York's Cotton Club, the club was compared and the later years of urban renewal fell victim to be the exterior walls of the building of the historic Sunset Cafe / Grand Terrace Cafe. The building served since other uses, was, among other administrative buildings, in 1998 was granted the status of an important monument of Chicago and was admitted to the municipal List of Chicago Landmarks in 1998
Another club called Sunset Cafe was in the 1930s in Kansas City. Meanwhile the name for radio broadcasts (eg jazz program on college radio Aachen ) will be used.