Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

by Lewis Watts and Elizabeth Pepin Silva

In the 1940s and 50s, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco's Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment, and so many legendary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597144924
• ISBN13: 9781597144926
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.2" x 10.1"