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'''Bourbon Street''' was a jazz club located at 180 [[Queen Street West]] in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]]. Operating between 1971 and 1986, it was one of Toronto's preeminent jazz clubs and featured many internationally renowned musicians.
==History==
Bourbon Street was opened in 1971 by Doug Cole, also the owner of [[George's Spaghetti House]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/06/17/doug_cole_founder_of_torontos_first_jazz_club_has_died.html|title=Doug Cole, founder of Toronto's first jazz club, has died|date=June 17, 2012|via=Toronto Star}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.chefdb.com/pl/2122/Bourbon-Street-Toronto|title=Bourbon Street, Toronto (CLOSED): ChefDb: The Chef and Restaurant Database|website=www.chefdb.com}}</ref> The club featured a largely American musical lineup that was backed by a local [[house band]]. In the fall of 1975 both [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] and [[Paul Desmond]] recorded live albums at the club for [[A&M Records]]. These albums both feature all-Canadian bands.
Cole sold the club in 1983; Bourbon Street continued to feature music until 1986.<ref name="auto"/> The building has since been demolished.
==Live albums==
*Jim Hall - ''[[Jim Hall Live!]]'' (1975)
*Paul Desmond - ''[[The Paul Desmond Quartet Live]]'' (1975)
*Ed Bickert - ''[[Ed Bickert at Toronto's Bourbon Street]]'' (1983)
*Lenny Breau Dave Young - Live at Bourbon Street (1983)
'''Newly released'''
*Paul Desmond - ''Like Someone in Love: Live in Toronto''
*Paul Desmond - ''Audrey: Live in Toronto 1975''
==References==
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*"[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/georges-jazz-room-emc/ George's Jazz Room]." In ''The Canadian Encyclopedia Online.''
[[Category:Defunct jazz clubs]]
[[Category:Jazz clubs in Toronto]]
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