Slugs' In the Far East

New York: Slugs' in the Far East, 1967. Vintage flyer for several nights of performances held at the historic East Village jazz club. Flyer advertises performances held between February 7 through March 5, 1967, with performers including Jackie McLean, George Benson, Kenny Dorham, Stanley Turrentine, and Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Music.

Robert Schoenholt and Jerry Schultz opened Slugs' Saloon, named after G.I. Gurdjieff's "terrestrial three-brained beings" from his "All and Everything" trilogy, in Manhattan's East Village in 1964. New York regulations forbade the use of "saloon," and the venue name was soon changed to Slugs' in the Far East, due to its East Village location. By the mid-1960s the bar was hosting regular jazz performances, and soon became closely associated with Sun Ra, whose Arkestra would play regular gigs every Monday (as noted on the flyer on offer) as "Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Music." By the late 1960s Slugs' hosted a number of prominent jazz musicians. including Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, and Ornette Coleman, among many others. The club shut down in late 1972, several months after regular performer Lee Morgan was shot to death at the bar by his common-law wife Helen Moore.

5.5 x 8.5 inches, framed to 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine.

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