Word: caccienti
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...strangely, the crowd is always close to capacity. This week the Black Hawk is edging into its tenth year as one of the nation's top resorts for modern jazz, the club that launched such cool cats as Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan. Says CoOwner Guido Caccienti: "I've struggled for years to keep this place a sewer...
...Bells. Entrepreneur Caccienti is rarely aware of the kind of music being played in his sewer: he is a bit hard of hearing and besides, he knows little about jazz. This has its advantages. Explains the San Francisco Chronicle's Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason: "It's the club musicians like best. First, the owners don't tell them what to do. They can't-they can't communicate. Second, the audience is best. Why else except to listen would anyone endure these conditions...
...Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie was talking for fear she would miss a joke. (Now the cash registers have no bells.) They recall the night a trombonist lost his pants in the middle of a solo, and the time Drummer Art Blakey belted a cymbal...
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