Charles Phillip Tilghman (April 29, 1911 - July 11, 1988)
was the founder of the Sphinx Club, a major
Baltimore jazz
The music of Baltimore, the largest city in Maryland, can be documented as far back as 1784, and the city has become a regional center for Western classical music and jazz. Early Baltimore was home to popular opera and musical theatre, and an imp ...
venue one of the first
African American-owned
nightclubs in the country. Tilghman ran the Sphinx Club until he died in 1988, and the Club shut down in 1992.
References
Baltimore Jazz*
1911 births
1988 deaths
Businesspeople from Baltimore
Culture of Baltimore
20th-century American businesspeople
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