Jazz Musicians, Celebrities and Latin Bands
The Palladium became the place to be seen at. Different jazz musicians and some celebrities would sit in and play with the Latin bands: Others watched and enjoyed the show.
- Dizzy Gillespie
- George Shearing
- Cal Tjader
- Marlon Brando
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Buddy Rich
- Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald -
- Gene Krupa
- Dave Brubeck,Paul Desmond, Joe Morello
- Frank Sinatra Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,and Peter Lawford
The Palladium was in close proximity to the jazz clubs on West 53rd Street: [Birdland 52nd St[, The Onyx and CuBop City. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who lived in the NYC area during the heyday of the Palladium Ballroom, composed a piece during the 1970s called "Palladium" while a member of the seminal jazz-fusion group Weather Report. The song appears on their Heavy Weather (album) and features a driving Latin Rhythm among other delights.
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“There’s more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that’s because the audience doesn’t really know what’s happening.”
—Pat Metheny (b. 1954)
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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