Live at The Cellar
Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Live at The Cellar
Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s
Table of Contents
Foreword by Don Thompson
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 | Setting the Scene
1 Are You In or Out? The Nature of the “Scene”
2 Laying the Groundwork: The Early History of Jazz in Canada
Part 2 | The Vancouver Scene
3 The Making of a Jazz Scene: Vancouver’s Cellar Club
4 No Room for Squares: The Cellar as Artistic Hub
5 In the Swing of Things: Growth, Maturation, and Mingus
6 Altered Chords: New Blood and the End of an Era
Part 3 | Other Canadian Scenes
7 Co-ops from Coast to Coast: Edmonton, Calgary, Halifax
Conclusion
Appendices: Gigography for the Cellar, 1956–63; Canadian Jazz Sources
Notes; Selected Bibliography; Interviews; Index
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