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Baker's Keyboard Lounge is a jazz club located at 20510 Livernois Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in May 1933 and is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in Detroit. It was founded in May 1933 and is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in Detroit.
Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge is a live album by saxophonist James Carter with guests David Murray, Johnny Griffin and Franz Jackson recorded at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in 2001, and released on the Warner Bros. label in 2004. [1]
Recorded at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, Michigan on February 26 (Disc One, track 1 and Disc Two) and February 27 (Disc One, tracks 2–5), 1986; Personnel
The performance was part of a tour that Jefferson and Cole led together. Their opening night in Detroit, Michigan, was at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, a jazz club built in the 1930s that has played host to famous musicians including those who spanned the genre with artists as diverse as Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt.
The Allmusic review by Al Campbell says, " Like its predecessor, Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Out of Nowhere provides an admirable cornucopia of modern jazz from Carter and friends". [2] In JazzTimes David R. Adler called the album "another spirited live session". [6]
The genesis of blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African Americans from the Deep South.In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the boogie-woogie style, such as Speckled Red, Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo Merriweather.
By the late 1940s, Ames was leading his own band. Throughout the following decade, the band played around Detroit and other Northern cities, performing at nightspots like the Brass Rail Theater Bar and Baker's Keyboard Lounge, with various big name musicians passing through Detroit, including Nat King Cole and Erroll Garner. Around this time he ...
Pat Flowers c. 1943. Ivelee Patrick Flowers (October 16, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was an American jazz pianist and singer.. Born in Detroit, Flowers began his professional career as the pianist during intermissions at Uncle Tom's Cabin in the city when he was 18 years old.