Greenwich Village
44 music artists that Wikipedia ties to Greenwich Village, best known first. A tie, not always an origin
- Jeff BuckleyMusician · R&B & Soul
- Pete SeegerSinger · Folk & Country
- Michael PennMusician · Rock & Punk
- Phil OchsSinger, songwriter · Folk & Country
- Reeve CarneySinger-songwriter · Rock & Punk
- John SebastianSinger-songwriter, musician · Folk & Country
- Richie HavensSinger-songwriter, guitarist · R&B & Soul
- Robert LopezSongwriter · Stage & Screen
- Peter YarrowSinger, songwriter · Folk & Country
- Mary TraversSinger · Folk & Country
- Maria MuldaurSinger · R&B & Soul
- Leontyne PriceSoprano · Classical
- Paul StookeySinger-songwriter · Folk & Country
- Leona NaessSinger · Rock & Punk
- Dave Van RonkMusician · Blues
- Amel LarrieuxSinger-songwriter, keyboardist · R&B & Soul
- Tom PaxtonSinger, singer-songwriter · Folk & Country
- Edgard VarèseComposer · Classical
- Richard FariñaFolksinger, songwriter
- Lucy Wainwright RocheSinger-songwriter · Folk & Country
- Eric AndersenMusician · Folk & Country
- Willie NileSinger-songwriter · Rock & Punk
- Carolyn HesterMusician · Folk & Country
- David BlueMusician
- Tuli KupferbergRock & Punk
- Gil RobbinsSinger, musician
- Alana DavisSinger-songwriter · Pop
- Paul ClaytonFolksinger · Folk & Country
- Happy TraumMusician
- Richard BaroneMusician · Rock & Punk
- Susan ReedMusician · Folk & Country
- John DeNicolaSongwriter
- Will HoltSinger, songwriter, lyricist · Folk & Country
- Scott JacobyRecord producer · Pop
- Bobb GoldsteinnMusician
- Vasant RaiMusician
- Gil TurnerSinger-songwriter · Folk & Country
- Frank ChristianSinger-songwriter
- Ann McMillanComposer
- Meridian GreenMusician
- Roger PenneyMusician · Pop
- Wendy PenneyMusician · Folk & Country
- Robert EdwardsMusician
- Jean MuraiSinger
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Music spots
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Café Society
1938–1948Barney Josephson’s club on Sheridan Square, open from 1938 to 1948, prided itself on treating black and white customers equally. Josephson helped launch Lena Horne’s career, and Josh White, the club’s defining star in the early 1940s, headed the bill for four years. Billie Holiday first sang “Strange Fruit” here, per Wikipedia.
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Village Vanguard
1957Sonny Rollins recorded A Night at the Village Vanguard in this wedge-shaped basement room on 3 November 1957. It was the first album recorded at the club, per NPR.
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The Gaslight Cafe
1958–1971A MacDougal Street coffeehouse, open from 1958 to 1971, that began as a basket house, where unpaid performers passed a basket at the end of each set and hoped to be paid. Richie Havens, José Feliciano, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Dave Van Ronk all played here between 1964 and 1966, per Wikipedia.
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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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Cafe Wha?
1959Opened in 1959 in a basement on MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane. Dave Van Ronk played here early in his career, Mary Travers was a waitress here before Peter, Paul and Mary, Tiny Tim played two weeks in 1962, and on Richie Havens’s recommendation the club hired Jimi Hendrix in 1966, per Wikipedia.
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The Bitter End
1961Opened in 1961 as a no-alcohol showcase; Peter, Paul and Mary made their debut here that year, and Carly Simon was among those who played it in the ’60s and ’70s. In the summer of 1975 late-night jams with Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Bobby Neuwirth set the stage for the Rolling Thunder Revue, per NYC Tourism.
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Electric Lady Studios
1970Commissioned by Jimi Hendrix and opened in 1970. Paul Stanley recorded demos here in 1971 with Wicked Lester and returned with Kiss to make Dressed to Kill (1975); in the Soulquarians era Erykah Badu made Mama’s Gun (2000) here, per Wikipedia.
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Blue Note Jazz Club
1981Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note in Greenwich Village on 30 September 1981, and its opening performance featured the Nat Adderley Quintet, per Wikipedia. Carmen McRae, who had left New York for Southern California, appeared in New York regularly, usually at the Blue Note, with two engagements a year through most of the 1980s; she withdrew from public performance in May 1991, after an episode of respiratory failure only hours after completing an engagement here, per Wikipedia’s article on her.
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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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