• Clark Monroe's Uptown House, sometimes shortened to Monroe's Uptown House or simply Monroe's, was a nightclub in New York City. Along with Minton's Playhouse...
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    musicians, and played in after-hours clubs in Harlem, such as Clark Monroe's Uptown House. These young iconoclasts included Gillespie, pianist Thelonious...
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    experienced by Charlie Parker while performing "Cherokee" at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, New York, in early 1942. As described by Parker: I'd been getting...
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  • Michigan, also known as Upton House, NRHP-listed Harriet Taylor Upton House, Warren, Ohio, NRHP-listed Clark Monroe's Uptown House, Harlem, New York NY was...
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  • experienced by Charlie Parker while performing "Cherokee" at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, New York, in early 1942. "I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped...
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    made in 1941, shortly before Christian's illness and death, at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, another late-night jazz haunt in Harlem, with Oran "Hot Lips"...
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    his youth Powell listened to the adventurous performances at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, a venue near his home. This was where Charlie Parker first appeared...
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    Christian. Before 1942, Parker was known to have spent more time at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, another Harlem club where jam sessions extended into the early...
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  • he emceed at Kelly's Stables and sat in as a percussionist at Clark Monroe's Uptown House, in addition to singing on a recording by Count Basie in 1945...
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