The Tin Palace

The Tin Palace was a jazz nightclub on the Bowery in New York's East Village that opened in 1973 and operated there throughout much of the 1970s.

The Tin Palace nightclub opened in the fall of 1973 at Bowery and Second Street in New York's East Village. Owner Paul Pines lived in the neighborhood and had managed and tended bar at the off-Broadway theater watering hole Phebe's, on East 4th Street. He wanted to open a jazz club that captured the high energy of old downtown jazz clubs but not the hard drugs and doomed history set by Charlie Parker and Lee Morgan. Pines stated, “I knew I wanted a jazz room with the energy of Slugg's, but not the pathology--the doomed gestalt of hard drugs and raw emotion that had so deeply attached itself to the music since Charlie Parker, the poet maudit of jazz. I believed it was possible to turn that around, that a music which reached for transcendence as often as for a soul could find a more conducive setting. The first six months catered to the Bowery/Soho crowd, which included painters in the lofts, such as Mike Goldberg and Robert Indiana."

The club opened with Murray Shapinski Quartet, Charlie Turyn, saxophonist, Vinnie Giangreco, guitarist. Stanley Crouch had proposed opening an avant-garde Sunday afternoon series, which was very successful "turning Sunday afternoons into prime time for jazz listening." He brought in Air - the trio of Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins and Steve McCall; David Murray, James Blood Ulmer, Oliver Lake and many others.

Poet Patricia Spears Jones recalls 1976, "So The Tin Palace was where the downtown jazz heads and their girlfriends and occasional actual wives could be found afternoons or evenings listening to music and sipping medium quality Chardonnay. When the World Saxophone Quartet composed of David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett and Oliver Lake played The Tin Palace, I took money at the door. And depending on who was playing and or was it town, the mix could include Anthony Braxton, or European instrumentalists and Japanese tourists. That first event, there was a modest crowd that evening. And they got the thrill of a debut—four master reed players making sounds that went on to cover the globe."

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