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Minton's Playhouse
206 West 118th Street · Harlem, Manhattan40.8030° N / 73.9505° W
Overview
Harlem jazz club widely cited as a birthplace of bebop, where after-hours jam sessions reshaped the music.
Minton's Playhouse is widely cited as a birthplace of bebop, where late-night jam sessions in the early 1940s drew the musicians who reshaped jazz. It has opened and closed across the decades and reopened in renovated form. It remains a touchstone of Harlem's musical history.
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
jazz
Cultural role
birth of bebopHarlem jazz
DJs, promoters & people
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Tags
#bebop#jamsessions#Harlem#West118th