Category Archives: Jazz

Detroit Artist’s Workshop

Posted on June 29, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Red Door Gallery – 1964 Archie Shepp: “On November 1st, the Detroit Artist’s Workshop, now defunct, celebrated its tenth anniversary. Not exactly an earth-shattering event, this anniversary, but one with great significance for those of us whose daily cultural practice … Continue reading →

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John Coltrane’s Last Trips To San Francisco

Posted on June 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“John Coltrane passed away on July 17, 1967, aged only 40 years old. … Piecing together his live appearances, recording dates, and the groups he brought with him in San Francisco reveals that during Coltrane’s last period, the city was, … Continue reading →

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North Beach History: When Bebop Filled The Night

Posted on May 26, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Frank Phipps plays bass trumpet at The Cellar, c. 1959. “In 1951, while I was a high-school student, my girlfriend and I would make trips from Berkeley to the corner of Turk and Hyde streets in the Tenderloin. Here, at … Continue reading →

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Apollo Theater

Posted on May 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Apollo Theater is a music hall at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a noted … Continue reading →

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Langston Hughes

Posted on May 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901– May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to the Life & Music of Fela Kuti: Radical Nigerian Bandleader, Political Hero, and Creator of Afrobeat

Posted on April 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I cannot write about Nigerian bandleader, saxophonist, and founder of the Afrobeat sound, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with any degree of objectivity, whatever that might mean. Because hearing him counts as one of the greatest musical eye-openers of my life: a … Continue reading →

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Miles Davis Quintet Live at Teatro dell’Arte in Milan, Italy on October 11, 1964

Posted on March 5, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The language of jazz can be so lofty — so full of chord changes, musical virtuosity, ‘feel’ and ‘pocket’ and other ineffables — that it can seem, to the uninitiated, like homework. There’s a sense of responsibility that attends many … Continue reading →

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Chet: The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker (1959)

Posted on February 14, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… Despite all the grief Baker put record label executives (and club owners) through with his serial requests for cash, most of the people he dealt with had an abiding affection for him—partly because of his artistry, partly because of … Continue reading →

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Jimbo’s Bop City

Posted on January 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bop City (also known as Jimbo’s Bop City) was a jazz club operated by John ‘Jimbo’ Edwards in San Francisco from 1949 to 1965. It was situated in the back room of a Victorian house at 1690 Post Street, in … Continue reading →

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Jajouka Or Joujouka? The Conflicted Legacy Of The Master Musicians

Posted on January 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Telephone Man’ was a gimbri player who used to play in the village of Joujouka (just as often spelled Jajouka), decades before mobile phones finally connected the hilltop base to the outside world around ten years ago. He would visit … Continue reading →

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