The Street That Never Slept
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"Shoddy, bawdy and boozy,"" 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, before the strip joints and the concrete office buildings, was New York's answer to Bourbon Street, Beale Street, Sunset Boulevard and Montparnasse. Shaw, songsmith and musician's friend, was a devoted habitue who knew the passwords to the speakeasies (the…
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Starting in the 1930s and going through the 1950s, one of the centers of jazz in the United States was in Manhattan on 52nd Street between Fifth and Seventh avenues. Clubs like the Famous Door, Three Deuces, Onyx, Kelly’s Stable, and Club 18 would become legendary in jazz circles. Jazz royalty, from Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie to Coleman Hawkins and Billie Holiday, played in these clubs.
In his chronicle of 52nd Street, Arnold Shaw provides a fly-on-the-wall account of what it was like to play and visit the clubs based on interviews (some of them quoted at length) from…
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