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Sunset Cafe

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Sunset Cafe Chicago c 1923
Sunset Cafe Chicago c 1923

The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe, was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz clubs in America, especially during the period between 1917 and 1928 when Chicago became a creative capital of jazz innovation and again during the emergence of bebop in the early 1940s. From its inception, the club was a rarity as a haven from segregation, since the Sunset Cafe was an integrated or "Black and Tan" club where African Americans, along with other ethnicities, could mingle freely with white Americans without much fear of reprisal. Many important musicians developed their careers at the Sunset/Grand Terrace Cafe.

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Sunset Cafe
East 35th Street, Chicago Douglas

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East 35th Street 313-315
60653 Chicago, Douglas
Illinois, United States
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Sunset Cafe Chicago c 1923
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