Southland (jazz venue)

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Southland was a ballroom/cafe on Warrenton Street in Boston, in the United States, in what is now the Charles Playhouse. Originally a church, [1] converted into a club, is best known for featuring prominent jazz artists of the 1930s and 1940s such as Count Basie (most associated with the club), [2] Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford, and many others. [3] Southland was connected to the radio and it became a notable venue for broadcasting jazz over the radio in the 1940s. On 19 February 1940, Count Basie and his Orchestra opened a four-week engagement at Southland which was broadcast on 20 February. [4] Southland's entertainment also featured dancers such as Rubberlegs Williams, [3] who also sang with Basie on numerous occasions.

Boston Capital city of Massachusetts, United States

Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 685,094 in 2017, making it also the most populous city in New England. Boston is the seat of Suffolk County as well, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country. As a combined statistical area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth-largest in the United States.

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Today the building is occupied by the Charles Playhouse, which opened in 1957.

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References

  1. ↑ Clayton, Buck; Elliott, Nancy Miller (27 November 1995). Buck Clayton's Jazz World. Continuum. p. 102. ISBN   978-1-871478-55-6.
  2. ↑ Sheridan, Chris (August 1986). Count Basie: a bio-discography. Greenwood Press. p. 1017.
  3. 1 2 Basie, Count (2002). Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie. Da Capo Press. p. 226. ISBN   978-0-306-81107-4.
  4. ↑ Vail, Ken (1 January 2003). Count Basie: Swingin' the Blues, 1936-1950. Scarecrow Press. p. 36. ISBN   978-0-8108-4882-5.

Coordinates: 42°21′00″N71°03′58″W / 42.35000°N 71.06611°W / 42.35000; -71.06611

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