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Philly is a haven for quality jazz artists and venues
You might be surprised by the list of all of the great jazz musicians who have come from Philadelphia or have come of age here. Philadelphia has always represented quality in American jazz music, beginning in the 1930s, when Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti emerged from South Philadelphia, to the ascendancy of greats such as Philly Joe Jones, Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane, in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, to the '70s, when Stanley Clarke, Shirley Scott and Grover Washington Jr. fused soul and rock with jazz, to the age of present-day young turks such as Orrin Evans, Farid Barron, and Jaleel Shaw.
Some of the world's best established jazz musicians come from, and remain, in the Philadelphia region. And there are strong venues in this city, such as
Zanzibar Blue
,
North by Northwest
,
The Painted Bride Art Center
, and the venerable old
Clef Club
, now in the new millennium transformed into an Avenue of the Arts attraction
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The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
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