Mikell's

Mikell's

Mikell's was a jazz club on the corner of 97th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York.

Run by Mike Mikell and Pat Mikell, from 1969 to 1991 it was a regular venue for New York's top studio and session musicians who would turn up for jam sessions with major soul, funk and jazz artists visiting the city.[1]

Among the performers and bands associated with Mikell’s are Stuff, the alliance of studio musicians that played almost weekly at Mikell's in the 1970s.[1]

Contents

1970s

1980s

In early 1980, the club served for rehearsals for Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Big Band, which included Wynton Marsalis, and which would result in the live album Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Big Band - Live at Montreux and North Sea (1980).[2] Other artists appearing at the club in the 1980s included Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Cedar Walton and Mickey Roker (June 1983[3]), Paquito D'Rivera (January 1984[4]).

Live albums recorded at Mikell's

  • John Tropea - Live at Mikell’s New York - Recorded live in 1980, released 1994.
  • Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers - New York Scene - May 1984[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Pareles, Jon. The New York Times January 24, 2004
  2. ^ Jazz is Timeless Records
  3. ^ "Jazz Quartet at Mikell's" The New York Times June 3, 1983
  4. ^ "Hot Bop from a Tropical Gent" Time
  5. ^ BBC Programmes
  6. ^ Discogs.com

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