"I checked into the Alvin Hotel, across from Birdland, where Prez died, " he says.

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In 2011, she sang "Defying Gravity" in all three languages at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club with Schwartz on piano.

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Birdland was just north of 52nd Street, at 1678 Broadway, and had opened in 1949, soon assuming a position as one of the premier bebop locations.

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Brown also appears on one of the most significant occasions in Blue Note's fifties catalogue: the live recording of the Art Blakey Quintet, from Birdland, one of the leading clubs in New York.

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Fully appreciating this music requires the high pitch of concentration usually found in a concert hall (eating stuffed cabbage while the band plays would be like juggling and riding a bicycle at the same time), and yet it also demands the kind of intimate connection between musician and audience that's only possible in a nightclub like Birdland.

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Ladies and gentleman, as you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening... a recording for Blue Note records... when you applaud for the different passages, your hands go right out over the records there, so when they play them over and over, throughout over the country, you may be some place and say, well, uh, that's my hand on those records there, that I dug down at Birdland...

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