Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club: the Last Venue of its Kind

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Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club: the Last Venue of its Kind

In Western New York, you’ll find plenty of music history, but none so unique as the Colored Musicians Club in Buffalo, on the edge of Willert Park. The only Black-owned and operated music club of its kind in America, the venue has played host to a bevy of jazz musicians since the 1920s, including John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Allen Tinney, Elvin Shepard, Boyd Lee and Frankie Dunlop, Dodo Greene, and more. The historic venue cont…