BODE on Instagram: "The Village Vanguard at 178 7th Avenue South—the “Camelot of jazz rooms”—is the oldest operating jazz venue in America, opened in 1935 by Lithuanian immigrant Max Gordon. Originally imagined as a cafe and cabaret for Bohemian intellectuals, it hosted comedians, beat poets, and folk artists alongside early jazz musicians in its first decades. In the 1950s, as Moose Charlap and Sandy Stewart were arriving in New York and immersing themselves in the city’s music scene, the club

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