Quality Cafe (jazz club)

Quality Cafe
Location	1143 East 12th Street, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Coordinates	34°1′51.07″N 118°14′46.42″W / 34.0308528°N 118.2462278°W
Type	Jazz club, restaurant

Quality Cafe was a historical restaurant and jazz club located at 1143 East 12th Street near the corner of Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles.^[1] Quality Four, a jazz quartet founded by saxophonist Paul Howard and featuring young vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, was formed in 1924 to play at Quality Cafe.^[2] The band soon became Quality Quintet and then Quality Serenades, and was disbanded after a tour with Hazel Myers later in the same year.^[3] On June 7, 1924, the venue changed its name to Humming Bird Cafe and became "one of the hottest nightclubs in the area" under this name.^[4]

References

^ Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Eddie S. Meadows (1998). California soul: music of African Americans in the West. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20628-2. p. 52.
^ DjeDje, Meadows (1998) p. 47.
^ Clora Bryant (1999). Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22098-6. p. 11.
^ DjeDje, Meadows (1998) p. 52 (quote), p. 53 (exact date).

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[P52-1] Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Eddie S. Meadows (1998). California soul: music of African Americans in the West. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20628-2. p. 52.

[2] DjeDje, Meadows (1998) p. 47.

[3] Clora Bryant (1999). Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22098-6. p. 11.

[4] DjeDje, Meadows (1998) p. 52 (quote), p. 53 (exact date).

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