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Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. [1] [2] Established in 1994, [3] it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places in the city to see rising talent in the New York jazz scene".
By 1983, the club was known as the New Smalls Paradise. This version of Smalls Paradise offered everything from music and dancing to craft shows and political speeches. [63] By 1986, the club, which was the longest-operating night club in Harlem, had fallen vacant. Before its closure it had undergone a transition from a jazz to a disco club.
Lindner "made his mark during the 1990s", in part as leader of a big band that played at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City. [3] He was also the club's house pianist around the time it opened in 1994. [4] This band recorded the album Premonition in 1998 [4] and it was released in 2000, [3] by which time Lindner had changed to leading a quintet. [4]
David Schnitter (born March 19, 1948, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. [1] Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979.
Across 7 Street (also spelled Across 7th Street) was an American jazz group co-led by Ari Roland and Chris Byars. [1] The group played Sunday nights at Smalls Jazz Club for nine years until the original club's closure in 2003, [2] and also played at the University of the Streets. [3] The band was formed after the death of saxophonist C. Sharpe.
In 1995 and 1996, Avital made an impact on the New York jazz scene with a series of breakout piano-less groups at the original Smalls Jazz Club, including a classic sextet with four saxophones, bass and drums, alternately included saxophonists Myron Walden, Mark Turner, Gregory Tardy, Joel Frahm, Charles Owens, Grant Stewart, Jay Collins and ...
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He developed as one of many younger players at Smalls Jazz Club during the 1990s, working with veteran players like Jimmy Lovelace and Frank Hewitt. [26] [2] Byars has used the octet format in his band to exploit the texture gains from a big band while retaining the fluidity of a small group. [27] [21]