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Largo is a nightclub and cabaret in Los Angeles, California, known informally as Café Largo or Club Largo, known for its retinue of musical and comedic performers and for the Friday night "residency" of singer-songwriter Jon Brion. ==History== Cafe Largo was founded by Jean-Pierre Boccara in 1989. Boccara had previously run the Lhasa Club in Hollywood from 1982 to 1988. The location of Cafe Largo was formerly known as Budapest, a Hungarian restaurant. Boccara chose the name Largo for its musical, expansive and adventurous connotation. While changing the menu to a more contemporary Italo-French fare and strongly supported by the local arts community Boccara turned the place into a focal point for live music (Peter Himmelman, Victoria Williams, Suzanne Vega, Syd Straw, The Love Jones, Julie Christensen, Hugo Largo, Grant Lee Buffalo...), cabaret (Philip Littell, Stephanie Vlahos, Lypsinka, Barry Yourgrau...), vaudeville (Les Stevens), comedy (Nora Dunn, Beth Lapides..) and spoken word (Tommy Cody, Eve Brandstein and Michael Lally's "Poetry in Motion" notorious series). The LA Weekly named Cafe Largo "LA's Best Supper Club" in 1990. The New York Times ran a substantive review " A Place for Poetry in Land of Pictures" on July 12, 1989. The 1989 Reader review was titled "Cafe Largo mixes food and music-memorably". More critical acclaim and reviews was received in Newsweek, LA Style, LA Times, Los Angeles, Buzz, Exposure, Movieline, The Edge, Details, Village View, Vogue, Interview, Playboy, and US Magazine. In March 1992 Boccara sold the place to Mark Flanagan who shortened the name to Largo, and his name to simply "Flanagan." Boccara went on to open LunaPark on Robertson Blvd in West Hollywood and operated it from Halloween '93 to Halloween 2000. Flanagan began operating Largo in April 1992. (In the 1960s, the Largo, owned by Chuck Landis, was a strip club on Sunset Blvd.)〔http://www.whiskyagogo.com/articles/811100.html〕The club had a moment of notoriety in 1992 when the Jewish Defense League, threatened "trouble" if a planned concert on behalf of Palestinian causes was not canceled; for the safety of patrons, Flanagan reluctantly complied. In 1996, Flanagan re-established Largo as an intimate cabaret with live music mainly in the piano bar tradition. Largo's original location on Fairfax Avenue had 100 seats with a maximum full capacity of 130, and regularly sold out, with frequent sightings of celebrity musicians and actors in the audience. The club had a strict no talking or cellphone use policy during performances, but surprisingly allows audience members to live blog on their laptops. Flanagan persuaded Jon Brion to take a regular Friday-night residence at Largo. Brion's extensive friendships brought more talented singer-songwriters to perform at the club, notably including Aimee Mann,〔 Michael Penn, Fiona Apple (who included a song expressing her love for the club, "Largo," on her fourth album),〔 and Elliott Smith. Over the years, the list of semi-regular performers at the club has included Neil Finn,〔 Mr. E of the Eels, Robyn Hitchcock,〔 John Doe, Ben Folds,〔 Grant-Lee Phillips,〔 Rickie Lee Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Jakob Dylan, Teddy Thompson, t.A.T.u., Brad Mehldau, and Colin Hay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Largo (nightclub)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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