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The Greenwich Village and East Village homes of George Gershwin, Bill Dixon, George Barrow, and Red Rodney

During Prohibition in the 1920s, when jazz first rose to popularity in New York, many of its most prominent performance venues were located in Harlem and Midtown Manhattan. But this new style of music also found a distinct home downtown, with many of the liveliest and most innovative venues sprouting up in Greenwich Village and […]