The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and

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s in

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, New York. Art D'Lugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor and basement of 160 Bleecker Street. The large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect

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was known at the time as Mills House No. 1 and served as a

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men. In its heyday, the Village Gate also included an upper-story performance space, known as the Top of the Gate. Throughout its 38 years, the Village Gate featured such musicians as

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, Jimi Hendrix, Dizzy Gillespie,

Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...

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Woody Shaw Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator. Shaw is widely known as one of the most important and influential jazz trumpet ...

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

Stan Getz Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre o ...

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Nina Simone Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blue ...

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, and

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, who made her first New York appearance there. The show ''

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'', debuted at the Village Gate in 1968.

History

In the 1960s, radio DJ and Latin music advocate Symphony Sid hosted a regular Monday night concert at the Village Gate - "Monday Nights at the Gate" - featuring the best of New York's thriving Latin music scene. As

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began to grow in popularity, the Alegre record label began to host quite a few events at the Village Gate - many of which resulted in live recordings. Some of the live recordings from the Village Gate were the Alegre All-Star (and later Tico All-Star) Descarga sessions. The "Salsa Meets Jazz" series at the Village Gate was a seminal part of the history of New York Latin music. In 1977, WRVR jazz and Latin music DJ and jazz musician/conga drummer Roger Dawson created and hosted a weekly event that brought top Latin bands together with a guest jazz soloist. Dawson named the event "

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Sonny Stitt Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/ hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of hi ...

with

Eddie Palmieri Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is an American Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is the founder of the bands La Perfecta, La Perfecta II, and Harlem River Drive. Early life Pal ...

with

Machito Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, December 3, 1909 – April 15, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music. Ginell, Richard S. ''Biography''. Allmusic, 2011/ref> He w ...

, Dizzy Gillespie with

Tito Puente Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000), commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz ...

, James Moody,

Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awar ...

Bobby Hutcherson Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album '' Components'', is one of his best-known compositions.Huey, Steve. "Components – Bob ...

David "Fathead" Newman David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and Rhythm and blues, rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on ...

Slide Hampton Locksley Wellington Hampton (April 21, 1932 – November 18, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. As his nickname implies, Hampton's main instrument was slide trombone, but he also occasionally played tuba and flugelho ...

, and

Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of " sheets of sound", S ...

, to name a few, all jumped in to "jam" with the best salsa bands of the time. The club hosted a benefit for

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in May 1970 that featured performances from such counterculture luminaries as Jimi Hendrix and

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. From 1971 to 1973, a

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called ''

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'' had a successful run at the Gate. It starred future comic notables

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, Garry Goodrow, and

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, and lampooned the 1969

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, which had taken place upstate two years earlier, calling it "

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" and equating the entire

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generation with

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s bent on self-destruction. ''

Let My People Come ''Let My People Come'' is a musical with book and music by Earl Wilson, Jr. and lyrics by Wilson and Phil Oesterman. Subtitled "A Sexual Musical", the sexually-explicit show originally ran from 1974 to 1976 at The Village Gate theater in Greenwic ...

'' opened at the Village Gate Theater in 1974. The show broke all box office records there and played for 1,167 performances. Its transfer to the Morosco Theatre on Broadway was not as successful, though, and closed after 106 performances. It was nominated for a Grammy in 1974 and has appeared all over the world. From 1989 to 1991, the improvisational comedy troupe

Noo Yawk Tawk ''Noo Yawk Tawk'' was an off-Broadway show conceived and directed by Richmond Shepard which played at The Village Gate Theater from 1988 to 1991. It featured members of an improvisational comedy troupe founded by Mr. Shepard. All performances we ...

performed at the upstairs theater. The group was conceived and directed by Richmond Shepard, a world-renowned mime, actor, comedian, and teacher. All of the performances for Noo Yawk Tawk were entirely improvised. Characters may have been repeated, but never the sketches or the dialogue. The audience always set the scene and conditions for each improvisation, so every performance was different. The cast included Stan Taffel,

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, Miguel Sierra, Ken Dashow, Nola Roeper,

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, and Richmond Shepard. Taffel would go on to win three Emmy Awards for his performances in ''

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'' on PBS. Kudisch earned a Tony nomination in 2002. The Village Gate name was again used in 1996 at 240 West 52nd Street. Art D'Lugoff, co-producer of the show ''A Brief History of White Music'' was looking to rent the space in a site formerly occupied by the Lone Star Road House. That incarnation and the show lasted until 1997. In 1998, the 52nd Street location was taken by a brief reincarnation of

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. The Village Gate closed its Greenwich Village location in February 1994. The ground floor is currently occupied by

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. The

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capacity Village Theater, which hosted performances of the musically themed ''Love, Janis'', ''Dream a Little Dream'', ''Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris'', and ''Escape From Bellevue'', occupied the sublevel performance space until fall 2007. In spring 2008, the space was reopened as a multiuse performance venue and gallery bar called

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. The club is mentioned by

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superstars Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz in their song ''Pancho Cristal,'' off their 1968 LP ''Los Durísimos.''
''Vámonos pa'l Village Gate''
''Que allí es donde usted va y ve''
''Bravos de la

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''
''Y las estrellas de ahora.''

The club is mentioned again in the

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:
''Pancho Cristal

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del Village Gate.'' as well as in Chronicles: Volume One by

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Notable productions

The Top Of The Gate a.k.a. Village Gate (Upstairs): * Love Lemmings (1991) * Yesterdays: An Evening with

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(1990) *

(1998) * Beehive (1986) *Nacha at the Top of the Gate (1983)

Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara (born Clotilde Acosta, October 3, 1940) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires province. Biography Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer bec ...

* A... My Name Is Alice (1983) * Rap Master Ronnie (1983) * Lovesong (1976) *

Tommy Tune Thomas James Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won ten Tony Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and a star on the Hollywood Wal ...

Atop The Gate (1975) * The Charles Pierce Show (1974) The Village Gate Theater a.k.a. Village Gate (Downstairs): * Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1992) * The Real Live Brady Bunch and the Real Live Game Show (1991) * Further Mo' (1990) *

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& Company: The Legendary Genius of Comedy (1989) * Sing Hallelujah! (1987) * National Lampoon's Class of '86 (1986) * El Grande de Coca-Cola (1986) * Lies & Legends: The Musical Stories of

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(1985) * Shades of Harlem (1984) * Orwell That Ends Well (1984) * One Mo' Time (1979) * Sterling Silver (1979) * Nightsong (1977) * 2 by 5 (1976) *

(1974) *

(1973) * A Quarter for the Ladies' Room (1972) *Kumquats (1971) *

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(1969) *

(1968) *

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(1967) The Village Gate 52nd Street * A Brief History of White Music (1996)

Recordings

Notable albums recorded live at The Village Gate: *

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Toshiko at Top of the Gate ''Toshiko at Top of the Gate'' is a live jazz (quintet) album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded at the Top of the Gate in New York City in July 1968 and was released by Nippon Columbia and Denon Records. Track listing LP side A ...

'' (1968) *

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'' (Impulse 1969) *

Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev ...

''Live in Greenwich Village'' (1965) *

Charlie Byrd Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album '' Jazz Samba'', ...

Byrd at the Gate ''Byrd at the Gate'' is an album by jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd, recorded at The Village Gate in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.

'' (Riverside, 1963) *

Shlomo Carlebach Shlomo Carlebach ( he, שלמה קרליבך; 14 January 1925 – 20 October 1994), known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer dubbed "the singing rabbi" during his lifetime. ...

''At The Village Gate'' (1963) *

Alice Coltrane Alice Coltrane (' McLeod; August 27, 1937January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz musician and composer, and in her later years a swamini. An accomplished pianist and one of the few h ...

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'' (track 5) (Impulse!, 1970) *

Chris Connor Mary Jean Loutsenhizer, known professionally as Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009) was an American jazz singer. Biography Chris Connor was born Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri, to Clyde Loutsenhizer and Mabel Shi ...

''At The Village Gate'' *

Larry Coryell Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. Early life Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He w ...

'' Larry Coryell at the Village Gate'' (1971) *

Lucio Dalla Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, an ...

''DallAmeriCaruso'' (1986) *

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"Top of the Gate" (1968) *

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''Live at The Village Gate'' (1970) *

'' Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate!'' (Verve, 1962), '' Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate'' (Verve, 1962) *

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Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate ''Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate'' is a live album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring Jimmy Heath recorded in 1963 at The Village Gate and released on the Riverside label.

'' (Riverside, 1963) *

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''Havin' A Ball At The Village Gate'' (1963) *

Johnny Lytle Johnny Dillard Lytle (October 13, 1932 in Springfield, Ohio – December 15, 1995 in Springfield) was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist. Life and career Lytle grew up in Springfield, Ohio in a family of musicians, the son of a trumpeter father ...

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'' Live at the Top'' (Atlantic, 1968) *

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''Live at The Village Gate'' (1989) *

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'' (Atlantic, 1961), ''

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'' Standing Ovation at Newport'' (Atlantic, 1965) *

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'' Les McCann Ltd. in New York'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961

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Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shampoo ''Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shampoo'' (subtitled ''At the Village Gate'') is a live album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1961 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed January 12, 2016 The album was recorde ...

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, '' New from the Big City'' (Pacific Jazz,

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'' From The Top of The Barrel'' (Pacific Jazz 1967) *

Carmen McRae Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer. She is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century and is remembered for her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpre ...

'' Alive!'' (1965) *

Thelonious Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk (, October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including " 'Round Midnight", ...

Live! At the Village Gate Live may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film * ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film *'' ''Live'' (Apocalyptica DVD) Music * Live (band), American alternative rock band * List of album ...

'' (Xanadu, 1963

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Dave Pike David Samuel Pike (March 23, 1938 – October 3, 2015) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. He appeared on many albums by Nick Brignola, Paul Bley and Kenny Clarke, Bill Evans, and Herbie Mann. He also recorded extensively as l ...

the Doors of Perception ''The Doors of Perception'' is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, rangi ...

'' (Vortex, 1966

''Live at The Village Gate'' (1992) *

Our Man in Jazz ''Our Man in Jazz'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released by RCA Victor featuring July 1962 performances by Rollins with Don Cherry, Bob Cranshaw, and Billy Higgins.

'' (RCA Victor 1962) *

Mongo Santamaría Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga an ...

''At the Village Gate'' (Riverside 1963) *

Horace Silver Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sc ...

Quintet ''

Doin' the Thing ''Doin' the Thing'' is a live album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, released on the Blue Note label in 1961. It was the only live album released featuring the "classic" Horace Silver Quintet. The album was recorded at the Village Gate nightc ...

'' (Blue Note, 1961) *

Nina at the Village Gate ''Nina Simone at the Village Gate'' is an album by singer / pianist / songwriter Nina Simone. Released in early 1962, it was her third live album for Colpix (and sixth album overall). The album was recorded at The Village Gate, a nightclub in Gre ...

'' (1962) *

John Handy John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933) is an American jazz musician most commonly associated with the alto saxophone. He also sings and plays the tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, and oboe. Biography Handy was born in Da ...

'' New View'' (Columbia 1967) *

Sivuca Severino Dias de Oliveira (May 26, 1930 – December 14, 2006), known professionally as Sivuca, was a Brazilian accordionist, guitarist and singer. In addition to his home state of Paraíba, Brazil, and cities Recife and Rio de Janeiro, he worked ...

''Live at The Village Gate'' (1975) *

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''Live in New York '82'' (1982) *

Clark Terry Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duke ...

''Live at The Village Gate'' (1990) * Tico All-Stars ''Decargas: Live at The Village Gate'' (1966) feat.

, Victor Paz,

Charlie Palmieri Carlos Manuel "Charlie" Palmieri (November 21, 1927 – September 12, 1988) was an American bandleader and musical director of salsa music. He was known as the "Giant of the Keyboards". Early years Palmieri's parents migrated to New York from P ...

Johnny Pacheco Juan Pablo Knipping Pacheco (25 March 1935 – 15 February 2021), known as Johnny Pacheco, was a Dominican musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer who in the 1970s became one of the leading exponents of salsa as well in ...

Ray Barretto Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Lati ...

Jimmy Sabater Jimmy Sabater (April 11, 1936 – February 8, 2012) was an American musician of Puerto Rican ancestry. A three-time winner of the ACE Awards, he was a singer and timbales player. He gained international fame thanks to his work with the Joe Cu ...

, and

Joe Cuba Joe Cuba (April 22, 1931 – February 15, 2009), was an American conga drummer of Puerto Rican descent widely regarded as the "Father of Latin Boogaloo". Early years Joe Cuba (birth name: Gilberto Miguel Calderón) was born in Harlem, New York ...

Flip Wilson Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series '' The ...

''Live at The Village Gate'' (1964) *

Hugh Masekela Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and fo ...

The Americanization of Ooga Booga ''The Americanization of Ooga Booga'' is a live album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. MGM released the record in June 1966. Background The album is a blend of American jazz themes and traditional South African musical influences ...

'' recorded Live at The Village Gate (MGM, nov.1965) *

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wrote

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by American musician and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 and recorded later that year for his second album, '' The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' (1963). Its lyrical structure is modeled afte ...

in September 1962 in a

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Chip Monck Edward Herbert Beresford "Chip" Monck (born March 5, 1939) is an American Tony Award nominated lighting designer, most famously serving as the master of ceremonies at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Personal history Monck was born in Wellesley, Mass ...

, the Village Gate lighting engineer and future compere and lighting designer of the

References

External links

NYC Architecture article

Village Gate to Swing Again

Biography for Art D'Lugoff

Ivan Black papers, 1887-1979
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