The Tin Palace was a jazz nightclub on the Bowery in New York's East Village, founded by poet Paul Pines, that opened in 1973 and closed in 1979. Pines presented jazz from the classics and standards to cutting edge avant-garde and Afro-Brazilian artists.
Eddie Jefferson, jazz vocalist, lyricist and innovator of vocalese.
Amiri Baraka, poet formerly known at LeRoi Jones, at the Tin Palace, December 15, 1979. Photo by Carin Dreschaler-Marx.
Stanley Lawrence Crouch was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?
Stanley Crouch