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Mikell's was a jazz club on the corner of 97th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York. Run by Mike Mikell〔(Jon Pareles, "Mike Mikell, 80, Owner of an Influential R&B and Jazz Club, Dies", ''New York Times'', November 21, 2005. )〕 and Pat Mikell, from 1969 to 1991 it was a regular venue for New York's top studio and session musicians, who would turn up for jam sessions with major soul, funk and jazz artists visiting the city.〔(Jon Pareles, "For a Night, the Sweet Sounds of Mikell's", ''The New York Times'' January 24, 2004 )〕 Paul Shaffer, bandleader for CBS's ''Late Show with David Letterman'', called Mikell's "soul heaven".〔 Among the performers and bands associated with Mikell’s are Stuff, the alliance of studio musicians that played almost weekly at Mikell's in the 1970s.〔 Writer James Baldwin's brother David worked as a bartender at the club, thereby attracting patronage from Baldwin as well as other authors, including Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka and Maya Angelou.〔 == 1970s == Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist who co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, performed at Mikell's in the mid-1970s. The band Stuff, formed in 1974, was closely associated with Mikell's, playing there three nights a week until 1980, with jam sessions taking place with visiting soul, jazz and funk stars and singers such as Stevie Wonder and Joe Cocker.〔 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「Mikell's」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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