2001 11th St., NW
(1961-1968) (-2016)
Owned by Angelo Alvino and managed by Tony Taylor (1959-1968). Renamed as Bohemian Caverns in 1961.
Owner George Sherman Lee (1968-). Became Frank’s Cave in 1969, The Caverns (owner Freddie Davis) in 1970, Underground Supper Club in 1973.
Owner Eddie Adair (1980s), auctioned by U.S. Department of Justice, Al Afshar (1998-). Reopened for jazz on June 15, 2000.
2006 club business bought by Omrao Brown, Sashi Starr, Jamal Starr. (Afshar continued as the owner of the building.)
Closed in 2016.
Formerly Night Club Bohemia.
Formerly Crystal Caverns.
Subsequently Underground.
Resident big band the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra performed on Monday nights from April 2010 through March 2016.
Recordings by Ramsey Lewis (1964), Ramsey Lewis (1965), Les McCann (1967), Roy Meriwether (1967)
Artists
- John Coltrane (1962)
- JFK Quintet (1962)
- Roland Kirk (1963)
- Art Blakey (1963)
- Thelonious Monk (1964)
- John Coltrane (1964)
- Butch Warren (1964)
- Bobby Timmons (1965)
- Sonny Stitt (1965)
- Chico Hamilton (1965)
- Jean DuShon (1965)
- Les McCann (1965)
- John Coltrane (1965)
- Cannonball Adderley (1965)
- Three Sounds (1965)
- Bobby Timmons (1965)
- Eddie Harris (1965)
- Art Blakey (1967)
- Miles Davis (1968)
- Roberta Flack (2000)
Bibliography
http://househistoryman.blogspot.com/2012/05/bohemian-caverns-nightclub-aka-crystal.html
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