Harlem Jazz Landmark Minton's to Reopen
NEW YORK (March 14) - A jazz club that hosted greats including Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Duke Ellington plans to reopen its doors, decades after its last note was heard.
Minton's Playhouse will reopen at the Cecil Hotel later this year, officials said Monday, with a formal announcement expected at a gala on Wednesday night. The hotel is owned by Housing and Services Inc., which has transformed it into an 89-unit facility and social services provider for recently homeless people.
Minton's, which closed in the early 1970s, will reopen in the street-level space where it used to be.
In the 1940s, Minton's was an incubator for the emerging bebop style championed by Parker and Gillespie.
Harlem Jazz Landmark Minton's to Reopen
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