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I love being able to see Minton's and the Apollo, and that they are still there.
Follow the Sound Uptown Will Friedwald 2011
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At Minton's Playhouse, a Harlem jamming joint, Parker met such like-minded young swing dissidents as drummer Kenny Clarke, former church pianist Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman's star guitarist Charlie Christian and the harmonically advanced trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie.
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At Minton's Playhouse, a Harlem jamming joint, Parker met such like-minded young swing dissidents as drummer Kenny Clarke, former church pianist Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman's star guitarist Charlie Christian and the harmonically advanced trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie.
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At Minton's Playhouse, a Harlem jamming joint, Parker met such like-minded young swing dissidents as drummer Kenny Clarke, former church pianist Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman's star guitarist Charlie Christian and the harmonically advanced trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie.
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In 2000, the festival expanded to Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park, a stone's throw from Minton's Playhouse, where Parker, whose nicknames included "Bird" and "Yardbird," slid into a developing bebop scene at legendary Monday-night jam sessions with commanding authority.
Birdwatching in Manhattan Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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In the small hours at Minton's, bebop, or just bop, was forged.
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In the small hours at Minton's, bebop, or just bop, was forged.
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After hearing him play drums at a Minton's Playhouse jam session, organist John Patton hired him on the spot.
Playing Musical Chairs Larry Blumenfeld 2012
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In the small hours at Minton's, bebop, or just bop, was forged.
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Taylor found Minton's--the 118th Street club where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk conducted their endless symposiums, the club Ralph Ellison called the place "where the dark and the light folks meet"--and asked the piano man if he could play.
How Billy Taylor sparked a love of jazz Marc Fisher 2010
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