Jamez Barrett ๐ เฅ โถNTS Radio offers a dedicated "NTS Guide to: Live At Slugs' Saloon" episode featuring two hours of live recordings from the infamous New York City jazz venue. The show highlights the 1960s/70s East Village scene, showcasing post-bop and free jazz, often focusing on the venueโs reputation as a "crime scene" and its significant, yet short-lived, impact on jazz history.
NTS Guide to: Live At Slugs Saloon 18th September 2025
Playing Live Performance, Post Bop, Free Jazz. Recordings from the infamous and short-lived jazz venue and bar Slugs In The Far East. Located in a run down part of Manhattan's East Village, this former Ukrainian restaurant was opened in 1964 as Slug's Saloon, and soon became a hot-spot for New York's more fringe-leaning jazz musicians, with Art Blakey, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders and many more performing there semi-regularly til the bar's closing in 1972. Perhaps the most infamous incident at Slugs was the murder of trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was shot dead by his wife while performing.
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