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  • Landmarking in Harlem

    Landmarking in Harlem

    Minton’s Playhouse and an apartment building in Hamilton Heights where jazz pioneers Duke Ellington and Noble Lee Sissle once lived may soon be listed and landmarked. Thelonius Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill outside Minton’s Playhouse in 1947. Photo via WikiCommons Minton’s Playhouse on West 118th Street was the birthplace of bebop, an improvisational style of jazz, came…