The Village Gate
The Village Gate was established in 1958 a New York nightclub, the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Street was located in Greenwich Village. It was in this form until 1993.
History of the Village Gate
The club was opened in 1958 by impresario Art D' Lugoff ( 1924-2009 ); he was on the ground floor and basement of 158 Bleecker Street. The wide building from 1896 in the style of the Chicago school was built by the architect Ernest Flagg. and was in Manhattan as the Mills House No.. 1 known and served as a flophouse for assembly workers.
In the 38 years of its existence in the Village were gate -famous artists such as John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Herbie Mann, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin on the here had their debut on the New York music scene. In 1968 had the musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris premiere. In addition to jazz, he presented at the Village Gate and folk music as Zal Yanovsky and cabaret.
On January 15, 1961 Max Roach's We Insist was! Freedom Now Suite premiered at a benefit concert for the civil rights organization CORE, which cost $ 2.50 admission. In the 1960s, this had the radio DJ Symphony Sid a regular show, the "Monday Nights at the Gate", in which many musicians of the New York Latin music scene occurred. In the Village Gate then also numerous live albums of salsa music ( Salsa Meets Jazz ) by Sonny Stitt / Eddie Palmieri, Dexter Gordon / Machito, Dizzy Gillespie / Tito Puente and James Moody, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Hutcherson, David Fathead Newman, Slide emerged Hampton and Pharoah Sanders. At a charity event for Timothy Leary in May 1970 made guest appearances there, inter alia, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Allen Ginsberg. From 1971 to 1973 was the Village Gate venue of a musical comedy revue entitled National Lampoon Inc, occurred when comedians like John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest; inter alia, a satire on the Woodstock Festival 1969 ( Woodchuck ).
Since 1966, the harpist Daphne Hellman joined with their Hellman 's Angels every Tuesday night when she was in town, in the club on.
Upstairs the house D' Lugoff opened the club top of the gate, who offered to mid -1970s jazz music. The Village Gate closed in 1994 and was reopened in 1996 for a short time on the West 52nd Street. (240 West 52d Street), in the revue The Village Gate 52nd Street - A Brief History of White Music was played.
Important jazz recordings from the Village Gate
- Albert Ayler Live in Greenwich Village (1965 )
- Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda (1970 )
- Sonny Rollins Our Man in Jazz ( 1962)
- Swingle Singers Live In New York '82 (1982 )