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Starter archiveClosedApproximateClub1955–1967 (Cooper Square)
Five Spot Café
5 Cooper Square · Bowery, Manhattan40.7274° N / 73.9912° W
Overview
Bowery jazz room remembered for extended residencies that helped break bebop and free jazz downtown.
The Five Spot Café was a Bowery bar that became a key jazz room, remembered for residencies frequently associated with Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman and for a downtown, artist-heavy crowd. Accounts of its exact dates and addresses vary as it moved nearby.
Oral histories & archival media
Archive plates
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FlyerPL.01
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PhotographPL.02
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DocumentPL.03
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Placeholder plates — cleared scans drop in here
Sonic profile
jazzexperimental
Cultural role
avant-garde jazzdowntown art scene
Tags
#jazz#freejazz#Bowery#CooperSquare