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The House That Rockhead Built: Montreal's Jazz Paradise
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The House That Rockhead Built: Montreal's Jazz Paradise
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| Abstract |
A biography of Rufus Nathaniel Rockhead, the Jamaican-born former Canadian Pacific railway porter who ran Montreal's Rockhead's Paradise jazz club, reputed to be "the hippest place for jazz in the world." Officially opened in 1930 at the corner of Mountain and St. Antoine streets, the club played host to some of the biggest entertainers in the music business, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Oscar Peterson. The club existed until the late 1980s.
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Quebec Heritage News
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Vol. 7
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no. 4
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Fall 2013
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8-11
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en
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Ghandhi, Rohinton. “The House That Rockhead Built: Montreal’s Jazz Paradise.” Quebec Heritage News, Fall 2013. http://qahn.org/files/quebecanglophoneheritagenetwork/documents/qhn/qhn_fall_2013_layout_1_reduced_2.pdf.
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