[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

[EDWIN COLTRIN]

I didn't see any mention of "Saunders King", used to play in a downstairs bar on Geary I think, close to the theatre district.
   
  Used to be a bar in Oakland, " The Polar Bear Club" where a lot of late swing,  a form of rythym and blues and some early jazz was played, circa 1946/47. Can't remember the band but Four of us were the only whites in the audience,  Interesting stories then.
   
  Slainte
   
  Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
   
  Ed Coltrin

tcashwigg at aol.com wrote:
  

Subject: Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

Marcus Books on FILLMORE STREET SAN FRANCISCO  The Old Bop City 
Jazz Club.
Presents a Jazz Memory event; 
 
Saturday, February 25th, 6:00-9:00 p.m., San Francisco 
LEWIS WATTS AND ELIZABETH PEPIN in person for autographed copies of 
their book:

HARLEM OF THE WEST: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era 

Billie Holliday singing and Lionel Hampton playing at the Club 
Flamingo/Texas Playhouse, Jimi Hendrix playing with Little Richard at 
the Fillmore Auditorium, John Handy and Pony Poindexter, Johnny Hodges 
and Duke Ellington, Sugarpie DeSanto, Johnny Mathis, and Dexter Gordon 
playing at Jimbo's Bop City with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Sammy 
Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane dropping in for jam 
sessions. This was the vibrant, swinging jazz scene of San Francisco's 
Fillmore in the 1940s and '50s. Through amazing photographs and oral 
accounts, Harlem of the West celebrates this unique chapter in jazz 
history and the Black experience on the West Coast. The San Francisco 
Marcus Book Store building (formerly Bop City) will be magically 
transformed for an evening of remembrance, autographing, live jazz, and 
refreshments. Dress like 'back in the day' to enter the "Best Dressed 
Contest" and win an autographed copy of Harlem of the West. 


Hopefully we will soon see such a book about Slim Jenkin's Place in 
Oakland, California.


Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
1-925-952-4585
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band
http://www.sonoicbids.com/StGabrielscelestialbrassband





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