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    Bookshelf | Cafe Society: The Clubs That Broke Barriers

    Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:48:30

    Barney, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Art Tatum


    Bookshelf | Cafe Society: The Clubs That Broke Barriers

    CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, the journalist, socialite and later congresswoman, is credited with coining the term. In 1938, Barney Josephson, a New Jersey shoe salesman and jazz aficionado, hijacked it to mock her vision of New York’s elitist nightclub scene. ...Full Story at The New York Times »

    Tags: Barney, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Art Tatum, Carol Channing, Zero Mostel, Mary Lou Williams