Lennie Sogoloff of jazz club Lennie's On The Turnpike — RIP

[Gentle Giant]

"Lennie Sogoloff died today on Boston’s North Shore. He was the proprietor of Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike, a hallowed jazz club on Route 1 in West Peabody, Massachusetts, which Lennie operated between 1951 and ’71. Sogoloff, who worked for Mercury Records at the time, originally provided a juke box stocked with jazz, then began presenting the living artists themselves. For a decade-plus, Lennie’s was on the itinerary of just about every jazz artist of the time. Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and countless others played the room....”

http://nepr.net/music/2014/07/12/lennies-turnpike/

I was born too late to experience Lennie's but I dig the Jaki Byard sets that were recorded there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLnNlDYkHXw

[DIS]

Saw many of the top names in jazz at Lennie's in the late 60's. Those forays to the club helped to preserve my sanity while I was working as a teacher and dormitory master at a nearby independent school.

[Ron Thorne]

It's vitally important to name, and provide necessary new names to this situation.