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...Ruled the Night. The esthetic decline involved in this defection is all but unthinkable to Birdland's old habitues, who knew the place as the remaining link to the great days of the early '50s, when bop ruled the night on 52nd Street and Broadway. The club was christened in honor of Charlie "Bird" Parker, and its stars have been mainly his musical descendants. Now Miles Davis is no longer welcome, and neither is Thelonious Monk or John Coltrane; their music, Goodstein thinks, has become too involuted and personal to please Birdland's current customers...
Monk quit high school at 16 to go on tour with a divine healer?"we played and she healed." But within a year he was back in New York, playing the piano at Kelly's Stable on 52nd Street...
Ever since Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, the Lewis and Clark of modern jazz, returned from their first explorations on Manhattan's 52nd Street, other musicians have been following the masters' trails. Their search is more for small refinements than grand departures, and cults of aficionados armed with phonograph records travel in their wake. Thelonious Monk's cult, whispering of Webern, insists that the silences in his music are even more profound than the sounds. Miles Davis' cult, transfixed by his trumpet, says nothing, preferring to express its worship in utter silence. But the cultists that...
...blocks to the south, there was a different kind of opening with its own brand of superlative: the tallest hotel in the world. The Americana zooms up 50 stories in a kind of crescent on Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets. Like its rival, the 46-story still-unfinished New York Hilton a block away, the Americana will help remedy Manhattan's constant shortage of public rooms by supplying them in all sizes and shapes. There are 41 of them in all, seating a total of 11,290 diners (the seven kitchens occupy nearly an acre and contain...
Outdoing NBC. The new building's site, at West 52nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is only two blocks from NBC's 70-story skyscraper in Rockefeller Center. Thus a main goal of the architecture is to make CBS look distinguished in comparison to its lofty rival. The sunken plaza that consumes almost half the space of the tract not only singles the building out but draws the eye downward before it turns upward, adding to the effect of rise...