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LaRocque Norvel Wright; 1937–1990) was an
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In 2015, on the same lot with the same address, a newly erected six-story, 10,385 square feet (964.8 m), healthcare clinic named "The Nest" opened under the auspices of Harlem United, a New York non-profit founded in 1988 during the throes of the
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ordered a massive citywide crackdown on speakeasies in 1929, 45 of the 786 clubs were in Harlem, a ratio that, according to Lerner, "suggests Harlem was neither ignored nor specifically targeted."
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She had this heavy voice, this gravelly tone. While at the Nest Club, Eleanora changed her name to Billie
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Manhattan: Class, Culture, and Politics in Prohibition-Era New York City, 1919–1933,"
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replaced Howe in 1928. Howe had been the drummer for Sam
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1481:"Brother of Cop Drowns Upstate – Two Musicians Die When Car Runs Into Canal After Accident," by Elsie M. Chambers, p. 3, col. 6 (of 8)
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1288:"Sam Wooding and the Chocolate Kiddies at the Thalia-Theater in Hamburg 28th July, 1925 to 24th August, 1925," by Berhard H. Behncke,
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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz by the Men Who Made It
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Billy Butler," by Marguerite P. Cartwright (1910–1986),
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1202:"Selected Observations From the Harlem Jazz Scene"
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281:(1907–1967), trumpet under the direction of
180:for 32 performances, ending August 24. Then
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1974:1923 establishments in New York City
1682:"Cabaret News," by John E. Frazier,
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1999:Defunct jazz clubs in New York City
1612:National Museum of American History
1521:Billie Holiday: Wishing On the Moon
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1004:Renaissance Ballroom & Casino
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233:(1907–1963), clarinet, tenor sax
1408:"Obituary: William H. Butler,"
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400:(1898–1962), trombone, director
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1748:Bard High School Early College
1713:Michael Aloysius Lerner, PhD,
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1955:"Interior of the Nest Club,"
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1240:University of Illinois Press
1115:University of Illinois Press
1057:University of Michigan Press
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1355:The Duke Ellington Reader
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1379:"People You Should Know
1048:Jazz From the Beginning,
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1958:New York Public Library
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1450:New York Public Library
1361:Oxford University Press
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1173:by Grant Harper Reid,
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119:In 1933, Dickie Wells
1960:, Digital Collections
1882:(2000), pps. 35, 49;
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1242:(1990, 1992), p. 17;
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2009:Jazz clubs in Harlem
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1577:Jessie Carney Smith
1411:New York Daily News
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1984:Harlem Renaissance
1904:by Scott DeVeaux,
1900:The Birth of Bebop
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1210:Rutgers University
1113:by Jacqui Malone,
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