The Beehive Lounge

The Beehive Lounge was a Chicago Jazz club in the 1950s.

The Beehive Lounge (1503 E 55th Street) was one of the renowned venues for Jazzmusik in the Hyde Park district of Chicago with the Cadillac Lounge, Club Rodeo, Counterpoint Jazz Supper Club, Nob Hill Club and the Sutherland Hotel. Jazz was played in Hyde Park as early as 1921, but the successful time for Jazzmusik was between the 1940s and the 1970s. The Beehive opened in 1948 and was a meeting point for modern jazz (bebop, hard bop) in Chicago at the end of the 1940s and mid-1950s. Charlie Parker appeared here in 1949 and his last performance in Chicago was also at Beehive. Her motto was The Beehive, where modern jazz comes alive. In the Beehive Lounge, (1965), Gene Rodriguez, Edwards Lockjaw Davis, Sonny Stitt (1953), Al Hibbler (1954), Milt Jackson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Max Roach / Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell (1955), Gene Ammons, Cannonball Adderley, Lester Young, Milt Jackson, Dexter Gordon / Norman Simmons, and King Kolax (1956). Sonny Rollins jumped here for Harold Land in the quintet of Clifford Brown and Max Roach.

Hauspianist was from 1948 to 1951 Jimmy Yancey and Junior Mance 1953/54. The club was a black and tan club, which means there was a mixed audience.

There are live recordings from the Beehive Lounge of the Quintet by Max Roach and Clifford Brown on November 7, 1955 (published by the Japanese Victor and Philology, with Sonny Rollins and other tenorsaxophonists like Nicky Hill, George Morrow, Billy Wallace p, Leo Blevins g). Single-level Edit source text

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