#the five spot

[historybetweenthepages]

Ben Webster at a Sunday afternoon jam session at the Five Spot

8th Street, New York City, 1963

[mosaicrecords]

Making a New Kind of Scene: New York's The Five Spot

David Brent Johnson has created a wonderful episode and essay on The Five Spot in its original Bowery location and its later St. Marks Place address. It was an amazing place that fed the contemporary arts & culture scene of New York at the time, and gave impetus to the careers of Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus among others.

-Michael Cuscuna

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[themasterpupil]

WEDNESDAY

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Thelonious Monk & Nica de Koenigswarter at the Five Spot, NYC, 1964

The moment she first heard Thelonious Monk play the piano, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter walked out on her own life, and devoted herself to the American jazz genius.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Untitled

Saturday night, I was on my way to the Five Spot to catch BR and Timebomb perform a birthday set for their drummer Jibrail when I came across this -- a lighted peace sign hung on a tree on Waverly Avenue. 

For this picture and the rest of the photos of the series up to date, check out the Flickr set here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yankee32879/sets/72157631312447628/

[themaninthegreenshirt]

back table at the five spot [david smith (standing on left), frank o'hara (seated), larry rivers, and grace hartigan]. burt glinn 1957

[suburbanroads]

Show Review

Quiet Company 4/18/13,The 5 Spot Nashville, TN

Reviewed by Cathy Wagner

To view the full photo set from the show, click here.

[suspectraptor-blog]

"IMR Magazine, the internet's fastest growing indie music website,is throwing it's first ever pre-festival shindig featuring three of Atlanta's best indie artists and special guests, Suspect Raptor, coming all the way from Athens, GA.  This night will be in celebration of our upcoming festival,The 2012 IMR Music Festival taking place at The Five Spot in Atlanta, GA on April 27th & 28th, 2012. For more details on that event, please visit the festival website at http://www.imrmusicfestival.com.  At the IMR Music Festival, there will be twenty-five awesome indie bands for only $10.00.  You can't find that anywhere in the SouthEast!"