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The
Queens Jazz Trail: A Short History
(an excerpt from the back
of the Queens Jazz Trail Map)
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 "The history of jazz is associated with
many cities, districts and streets. There is New Orleans,
Storyville, Basin Street, Memphis, Beale Street, the Southside
of Chicago, Kansas City, 52nd Street, Greenwich Village, and
many others. One place though conspicuously absent in most
accounts of jazz history, despite its many links to the music
is New York City's Borough of Queens. It will come as a surprise
to most that since the 1920s, Queens has been the "home of
jazz," the residence of choice for hundreds of jazz musicians,
including such all-time notables as Louis Armstrong, Fats
Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. . ." |
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Jazz
Musicians in Queens
(an
excerpt from the back of the Queens Jazz Trail Map)
ST. ALBANS (ADDISLEIGH PARK)
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Illinois Jacquet
Saxophone
112-44 179th St.
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Ella
Fitzgerald
Vocals
179-07 Murdock Ave.
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Count
Basie
Piano/leader
174-27 Adelaide Rd. |
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ST.
MICHAELS CEMETERY
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Scott
Joplin
Piano/composer
Grave 5, row 2, plot 5 |
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CORONA
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Clark Terry
Trumpet |
Cannonball
Adderly
Saxophone |
Jimmy Heath
Saxophone |
Dorie Miller
Houses
112-19 34th Ave. |
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