Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meal time. A block away is Le Coq Rouge at 65 E. 56th Street. It supplies Phil D'Arcy's trio and Eddie Davis' orchestra. There is dancing here. If you are after the best, and want to pay for it, head for the "21" Club, at 21 W. 52nd. If you saw "All About Eve," you also...
Jimmy Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday...
From the British Isles come Seven Days to Noon at the 52nd Street-Lexington Avenue Trans-Lux and Somerset Maugham's Trio at the Sutton (57th and Third. The Red Shoes is still around; it plays at the Victoria through Christmas day. Perhaps the best of this group is Night Train, now ten years old, a superb thriller involving Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, the Gestapo, a cable car, and as many furtive aples as Carol Reed could round up. It is scheduled to close tomorrow at the Beverly (50th and Third...
Jimmy Archey plays the best trombone in the east at Jimmy Ryan's, on the once famous segment of 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...
...Friday nights, lower Second Avenue resounds to simultaneous jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino (9th Street) and Central Plaza (6th). Ella Fitzgerald is at Birdland, Broadway near 52nd. Josh White and a cover charge go hand in hand at Cafe Society, Sheridan Square...