History Remembering the Downbeat: 1940s Progressive Philly Jazz Club A show at the Society Hill Playhouse and a series of weekly happy hours at the Gershwin Y bring Dizzy Gillespie back into the spotlight. Jack McCarthy profiles Dizzy's years in Philadelphia and the Downbeat ...
Preservation New Life For Former Theater, Jazz Club North Philadelphia's Tioga Theater, which once hosted jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan, will be reincarnated as a community-oriented banquet ...