Sweet Basil Jazz Club

The Sweet Basil was a New York jazz club, which existed from the 1970s until 2001.

History

The Sweet Basil Jazz Club was located in New York's Greenwich Village in Manhattan (88 Seventh Avenue South ). He was in his time next to the Village Vanguard one of the most famous jazz clubs in New York. The club was opened in 1974 as a restaurant and soon established himself as a well-known jazz venue of the district. The trumpeter and singer Doc Cheatham appeared there from the start and then had a regular Sunday engagement that lasted 17 years until Cheatham died in 1997. The Pianist Chuck Folds took the Sweet Basil Friends ( inter alia with Spanky Davis and Irvin Stokes ) a memory album to Cheatham's Sweet Basil performances on. The late 1980s and early 1990s was the Sweet Basil trio of Cedar Walton, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins, whose appearance was recorded in 1991 at St. Evidence for the album Thomas.

From 1981 to 1992, the Club Phyllis Litoff ( 1938-2002 ) and her husband Mel Litoff as well as the German -born artist and impresario Horst Liepolt belonged (* 1927), who organized the booking of and also the Club Lush Life led. In the Sweet Basil many concerts was recorded and there was a series of jazz albums that were partially co-produced by Horst Liepolt as Lover, Come Back to Me ( 1981) the singer Chris Connor, the tribute album Eric Dolphy & Booker Little Remembered Live at Sweet Basil ( 1986) and Live at Sweet Basil (1989), the pianist McCoy Tyner.

Became famous for the Sweet Basil also by the regular appearances of the Monday Night Orchestra Gil Evans from 1983. The club inspired Dollar Brand to the composition Sweet Basil Blues on the album Blues for a Hip King ( 1976), as Emil Viklický to Bazalicka (Sweet Basil )

In the last years of its existence the Sweet Basil was not there owners make, but various Japanese Holdings. The club closed on 30 April 2001, as the former co-owner James Browne, a New York DJ and music organizer, bought the building in order to rebuild it and to open a new club, Sweet Rhythm under new management. Browne tried to keep up with a mixed program of jazz, blues, Afro - Caribbean music or soul singers, the club; He also cooperated with the jazz program of the New School to give students professional bands performing opportunities. Finally, 2009 also included the Sweet Rhythm its doors permanently.

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