The Tin Palace
Poet Patricia Spears Jones recalls 1976: "So The Tin Palace was where the downtown jazz heads and their girlfriends and occasional actual wives could be found afternoons or evenings listening to music and sipping medium quality Chardonnay.
Considered "an unlikely mecca", "an important jazz spot" that "kind of legitimatized the area", the Tin Palace, "a haven for loft musicians", was a venue that "paved the way for today's much larger and (for some, at least) more prosperous live music scene.
But just up the street, Brooklyn native Paul Pines had been running a successful jazz club called The Tin Palace for five years, offering much-needed exposure to American artists ranging from bop vocalist Eddie Jefferson to AACM stalwarts Roscoe Mitchell and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre.
"[12] Regulars and performers included: Poets: Audre Lorde, Susan Sherman, Miguel Algarin, Kate Millet, Steve Cannon, Eileen Miles, Herschel Silverman, Adrienne Rich, Quincy Troupe, Eve Packer, Donald Lev, Kurt Vonnegut (w/ Jill), Richard Brautigan, Rudy Wurlitzer, Ken Ganjemi, Ken Brown, Shayne Stevens, Bill Zavatsky, Bill Knott, Diane Wakoski, Jerry Rothenberg, Clayton Eschelman, Charlie Mingus, Frank Murphy, Lisa Bond, Gregg Weatherby (Bond, Murphy, Pines, and Weatherby comprised the Tin Palace All-Stars, incorporating poetry and the jazz of Eddie Jefferson and Richie Cole, among others), Jim Nelson, Patti Smith, Jim Carrol, Bill Bronk, Paul Auster, Russ Banks, Don Phelps, Fee Dawson, Hettie Jones, Chuck Wachtel, Joan Silber, Basil King, Martha King, Toby Olson, Harry Lewis, Mark Weiss, Armand Schwerner, Ted Enslin, Paul Metcalf, Irena Klepfisz, George Economou, Rochelle Owens, Michael Heller, Jane Augustine, Richard Elman, Harvey Shapiro, Alan Planz, William O'Rourke, Irving Feldman, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, David Amram, John Weiners, David Antin, Rochelle Ratner, Harris Schiff, Ted Berrigan, Andre Codrescu, Mei-mei Bressenbrugge, Adrienne Rich, Simon Perchik, Patricia Jones, Stanley Crouch, Lionel Mitchell, Robert Hershon, Kathy Acker, David Ignatow, Stanley Kunitz, Seymour Krim, Paul Metcalf, John Wie, Ntozake Shange, Hettie Jones, Joan Silber, Ishmael Reed, Brian Breger, Chuck Wachtel, Joe Johnson, Thulani Davis, Mike Stevens, Steve Vincent, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Frank Lima, Lydia Davis, Donald Phelps, Sonia Sanchez, Meg Reynolds, Diane DiPrima, Richard Price, Hubert Hunky, Paul Pines, Joel Oppenheimer, Joe Johnson, Cubby Selby and Amiri Baraka.
Musicians: Dom Salvador, David Murray, Henry Threadgill, James Blood Ulmer, Oliver Lake, Cecil McBee, Jeanne Lee, Jimmy Giuffre, Eddie Jefferson, Richie Cole, Sheila Jordan, Roswell Rudd, Joe Lee Wilson, Leon Thomas, Andy Bey, Paul Jeffrey, Roy Haynes, Bob Mover, Rene McLean, Claudio Roditi, Hilton Ruiz, Charlie Persip, James Newton.
Michele Rosewoman, Jackie Byard, Harold Maybern, Cecil Payne, Paul Bley, Kenny Dorham, Howard Johnson, Air, The World Saxophone Quartet, Arthur Blythe, Fred Hopkins, Steve McCall, Ted Curson, Joe Carol, Anthony Davis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Hamiet Bluiett, Philip Wilson, Kalaparusha, Julius Hemphill and Butch Morris.
Performers, poets, and musicians included: Ted Curson,[13] David Murray, saxophonist; Harry Lewis, a poet and the bartender; the New York Saxophone Quartet,[14] World Saxophone Quartet composed of David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Hamiett Bluiett and Oliver Lake; Anthony Braxton, Stanley Crouch, Paul Jeffrey,[15] the Revolutionary Ensemble,[16] Charles "Bobo" Shaw, Steve McCall, the drummer for the group AIR; Fred Hopkins, Phillip Wilson, Fee Dawson, Lionel Mitchell, Marguerite, Fred Hopkins, Ntozake Shange, Basic Earthforms,[17] and Richard Brautigan, Adrienne Rich, Diane Wakoski, Michael Heller, Jane Augustine and Jack Micheline, and Muhal Richard Abrams, founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
