Minton's Playhouse

A jazz club in Harlem, Minton's Playhouse hosted the after-hours jam sessions of the early 1940s where bebop incubated, with Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke in the house band and Charlie Christian and others sitting in. The club's competitive late-night sessions were a laboratory for the new harmony and rhythm. It is one of the most storied addresses in the history of the music.