Acts And Entertainments
February, 1973
For 15 years, the most genuinely informal jazz room in New York was the Half Note, located in longshoreman country, near the Hudson River on the Lower West Side. At night, the neighborhood is deserted except for ominous shadows; but inside the Half Note, such regulars as Carmen McRae, the late Jimmy Rushing, and Al Cohn and Zoot Sims would light the nights--for both lay audiences and the many musicians who made the club a meeting place. Now the Half Note has moved to a converted carriage house i...
