page_title: Barney Josephson
section_title: The Cookery
hierarchical_section_title: Barney Josephson / Career / The Cookery
caption_attribution_description: Big Joe Turner in Hamburg 1973
context_page_description: Barney Josephson was the founder of Café Society in Greenwich Village, New York's first integrated nightclub. Opening artists in 1938 included Billie Holiday, who publicly performed the song "Strange Fruit" first there.
context_section_description: He subsequently opened a small chain of restaurants in New York, the Cookeries. By late 1969 he had reduced the chain to a single restaurant at University Place and 8th Street in Greenwich Village. He then began to feature live music in the restaurant, starting with the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams who had played at Café Society. In her wake, many of those who had once performed at the club subsequently appeared at the Cookery, including the singer Alberta Hunter, Arthur Tracy, Big Joe Turner, Nellie Lutcher, Eddie Heywood, Teddy Wilson, Rose Murphy, Jimmy Rowles, Sammy Price, Susan Reed, Ellis Larkins, Jack Gilford and Helen Humes. Live music continued there until The Cookery closed down in 1984.
  Another artist to appear at The Cookery was singer Lu Elliott to fill the space left by Hunter after she suffered a fall.
  Josephson closed the Cookery in 1984.
caption: Big Joe Turner (here, performing in Hamburg in 1973) performed in Josephson's establishments for decades
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