Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Tito Puente to East Harlem, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
Places
- Palladium Ballroom
- Webster Hall
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
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- The Village Gate
- SOB’s
- Norman Thomas High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Palladium Ballroom
1946–1966“The home of the mambo”, per PalladiumMambo.com, on the northeast corner of Broadway and 53rd Street. It opened in 1946; in 1948 the Big Three, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Machito, raised its standing, and their careers grew on the strength of their bookings there. A 1961 drug raid cost it its liquor license, and it closed in 1966, per Wikipedia.
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Webster Hall
1953–1968Built in 1886 as a hall for hire. In the 1950s Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Pete Seeger played here, and from 1953 to 1968 RCA ran it as a recording studio, where Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett recorded. On 2 February 1962 Bob Dylan played harmonica here on the title track of Belafonte’s Midnight Special, per Wikipedia.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
1956–1981Its “Jazz at the Academy” series brought Count Basie and Louis Armstrong to the Opera House stage from 1956, and a late-1960s series featured Thelonious Monk and Tito Puente, per BAM's archivist.
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The Village Gate
1958–1994Art D’Lugoff’s club at Bleecker and Thompson Streets, 1958 to 1994. It featured musicians including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Edgard Varèse, and the Alegre label held events there that led to live records, among them the Tico All-Stars’ Descargas (1966) with Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Joe Cuba. In 2008 its downstairs space reopened as (Le) Poisson Rouge, per Wikipedia.
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SOB’s (Sounds of Brazil)
1982Larry Gold opened SOB’s in June 1982, on what was then a barren stretch at Varick and Houston Streets, to expose as many people as possible to the music of the Afro-Latino diaspora. Its reputation began to grow with performances by Latin legends such as Tito Puente, Marc Anthony, Celia Cruz and Eddie Palmieri, per Wikipedia. Gil Scott-Heron began performing live again with a show here on 13 September 2007, per Wikipedia’s article on him.
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