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Spotlite Room

April 29, 2019 By Michael Fitzgerald Leave a Comment

1300 Rhode Island Ave., NE

Opened May 24, 1956. [Details needed on an unrelated earlier (late 1940s) Spotlite.]

Booked by Tony Taylor.

Recordings by Miles Davis (1958), Ahmad Jamal (1958), J. J. Johnson (1958).

Artists

  • Bobby Felder (1956)
  • Cannonball Adderley (1956)
  • Frankie Condon and Roy Eldridge (1956)
  • THE Orchestra (1957)
  • Randy Weston (1958)
  • Cannonball Adderley (1958)
  • Ahmad Jamal (1958)
  • Joe Rinaldi (1958)
  • Dizzy Gillespie (1958)
  • Miles Davis (1958)
  • Ahmad Jamal (1958)
  • Sonny Stitt (1958)
  • Maynard Ferguson (1958)
  • Andre Previn (1958)
  • Harry James (1958)
  • Miles Davis (1958)
Grand opening of Spotlite Room
WP 5/23/56 p.25
Cannonball Adderley at Spotlite
WP 5/13/58 p.A22
Ahmad Jamal at Spotlite
WP 6/21/58 p.B9
Ahmad Jamal at Spotlite
WP 6/24/58 p.B10
Dizzy Gillespie at Spotlite
WP 7/25/58 p.D9
Miles Davis at Spotlite
WP 8/6/58 p.A21
Maynard Ferguson at Spotlite
WP 9/27/58 p.C18
Andre Previn at Spotlite
WP 10/14/58 p.C14

1300 Rhode Island Avenue Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia


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