The Savoy |
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Site
of the Savoy, 410 Massachusetts Avenue. All the top acts came here
to play.
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| “My
second home, until I left Boston in 1953 to become New York editor
of Down Beat, was the Savoy Café on Massachusetts Avenue, a
short walk from Symphony Hall and on the edge of the black section
of town. Advertised as ‘Boston’s Original Home of Jazz,” it
was a long, narrow room with the bandstand crammed against the center
of the wall on the right. Like the other jazz clubs, it was one of
the few places in Boston where whites and blacks associated without
being overly conscious of it.” -Nat Hentoff “ The Shape of Jazz that Was.” Boston Magazine “Those
of us who came out onto Massachusetts Avenue from the
Savoy Café to find our various ways home occasionally
walked in jazz time.” |
