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The Music's Over at Garage, The Latest Village Jazz Club to Turn Out the Lights
January 5, 2016 By Daniel Maurer
David Coss (top, right) with his Saxophonist and fans as they performed their final set at Garage on it's closing night. (Photo: Nick McManus)
Last week, as part of our A Lot About a Plot series, we looked back on the history of some bygone jazz joints, including the Village Gate and Nick's Tavern. Now you can add another Village venue to the list: Garage Restaurant & Cafe closed its doors on Sunday. So much for its claim of hosting "more live jazz than anywhere in the world."
Tags: Arts + Culture, david coss, garage restaurant and cafe, greenwich village, jazz clubs, west village
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'A Strange Story': How 160 Bleecker Went From Slum House to Bohemian Bastion
December 25, 2015 By Mireia Triguero Roura
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings.
Evening in one of the courts in the Mills House, no. 1." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1902.
At the end of the 19th century, Ernest Flagg had a vision. Educated in the École des Beaux-Art in Paris, the young architect came back to New York in 1890 wanting to "reform the barbaric housing standards of the day." Then he met banker and philanthropist Darius Odgen Mills, and before long Mills House No. 1, an inexpensive hotel for working men, opened in Greenwich Village in 1897.
Tags: a lot about a plot, Bars + Restaurants, greenwich village, Housing + Development, jazz clubs, le poisson rouge, mireia triguero roura, the village gate
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'It Was a Joint': Jazz Musicians Remember Slugs' in the Far East
September 10, 2014 By Frank Mastropolo
Albert Ayler outside of Slugs.
Slugs' Saloon opened its doors in 1964, a neighborhood bar owned by Robert Schoenholt, who died in 2012, and Jerry Schultz. By early 1965, many musicians who lived in the neighborhood convinced the owners to feature live jazz. The club rivaled the Five Spot Café as one of the top jazz spots in the East Village.
Despite its implication, Slugs' took its name from the book All and Everything by mystic George Gurdjieff, who referred to three-brained humans as "slugs." New York law in the '60s prohibited the name "saloon," so the club re-branded itself – keeping the apostrophe – as "Slugs' in the Far East."
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