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Jun 22, 2024 · Jacintha tUkU Matthews guides The Star to the forgotten jazz spots of Toronto. With the sun at her back, Jacintha tUkU Matthews, 57, stands between two buildings on Yonge Street. Hands on hips...
Jun 22, 2024 · The Colonial Tavern, which opened in 1947, was more than a jazz venue. It was a groundbreaking place where Cy McLean and His Rhythm Rompers, an all-Black dance band, shattered glass ceilings by performing on a mainstream stage.
Mar 29, 2018 · Toronto’s original so-called music room was the House of Hambourg which operated from 1948 to 1963 in four locations near Bloor and Bay. Some clubs specialized in Dixieland, others in modern jazz.
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Massey Music Hall, as it was known until 1933, was built by industrialist Hart Massey in memory of his son Charles Albert Massey. (See Massey Family.) The hall was gifted to the city of Toronto to foster “an interest in music, education, temperance, industry, good citizenship, patriotism, philanthropy, and religion.” Designed by Cleveland-based Can...
The hall’s acoustics have been praised by audiences for their warmth and criticized by orchestral musicians for their deceptiveness. (A TSO musician once said that players could not hear each other clearly because of reverberation, and that a focused ensemble was therefore difficult to achieve.) Roy Thomson Hall took over the main functions of Mass...
The board of the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall administers both facilities. Each has continued to function independent of any direct government subsidies. Massey Hall’s original archive of records, photographs and playbills was destroyed by flood in 1943. The contemporary records of Massey Hall are maintained as part of the archiv...
A selection of some of the more memorable events at “the Grand Old Lady of Shuter Street” (the nickname Vincent Massey gave the hall in 1953) indicates the range of its use. There were notable appearances by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1896), Adelina Patti (1903), Dame Emma Albani (1903, 1906), Enrico Caruso (1908), Luisa Tetrazzini (1912), Amelita Gall...
The first major structural changes to Massey Hall were undertaken in 1933. Seating was reduced to 2,765 by enlarging the lobby and adding the balcony lounge. Also in 1933, the building was officially recognized by its popular name, Massey Hall. A second renovation, undertaken in 1948, lowered the stage and replaced the wooden floors of the stage, b...
Massey Hall was named a heritage site by the City of Toronto on 20 June 1973. It was designated a National Historic Siteon 15 June 1981. The Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada placed a plaque on the exterior of the building in 1985 to honour Massey Hall, and another in 1989 to honour Sir Ernest MacMillan. A third plaque was installed in...
Jun 12, 2020 · In 1963, Toronto was a bustling jazz center akin to New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The city's jazz establishments flourished after Ontario's Liquor Licensing Board changed its dining lounge rules in 1946 to permit live venues to sell alcohol.
Oct 31, 2019 · First opened in 1943, Grossman’s Tavern is one of Toronto’s oldest live music venues. With a long-standing reputation for blues music, this lovable dive bar has seen the likes Jeff Healey, Blue Rodeo and the Downchild Blues Band before they became the household names they are today.
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From 1923 to World War II, as the Great Migration brought Black people from the Deep South to the South Side, Chicago became the jazz capital of the world. The Bronzeville neighborhood—a stretch of seven miles long and two miles wide and south of the Downtown Loop--was packed with jazz clubs, glamorous ballrooms, and exciting nightlife.
