Nick's Explained

Nick's (Nick's Tavern) was a tavern and jazz club located at the northwest corner of 10th Street and 7th Avenue in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, New York City,^[1] which was at its peak in the 1940s and 1950s.Many jazz artists performed at the club including Bill Saxton (a Friday night regular),^[2] Pee Wee Russell, Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole, and Joe Grauso, among others.^[3] Artists like Miles Davis and John Coltrane used to visit the pub to relax after their own gigs.^[4] During the early 1950s, the club was noted for its regular Phil Napoleon and The Original Memphis Five Dixieland performances.^[5]

See also

• • St. Nick's Pub List of jazz venues

External links

• Official site
• Jim Cullum Riverwalk Jazz Collection at Stanford University

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Riverwalk Jazz - Stanford University Libraries. rwj-a.stanford.edu. 27 September 2016.
2. Book: Silverman, Brian. Frommer's New York City 2008. 4 September 2007. John Wiley & Sons. 978-0-470-14439-8. 366.
3. Book: Brinkofski, Elizabeth Dodd. New York City Jazz. 1 July 2013. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-9914-4. 53.
4. Book: Carroll, Myka. New York City For Dummies. 18 October 2012. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-118-49540-7. 271.
5. Web site: Phil Napoleon. Redhotjazz.com. 6 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20110926214213/http://www.redhotjazz.com/napoleon.html. 26 September 2011. dead.