The Jazz Legend of Gordon’s Town House
For decades, jazz fans in Knoxville have heard rumors of Gordon’s Town House on the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 17th Street. In the 1950s, full swing orchestras played there in its big dining room with a dance floor that looked straight out of a posh Manhattan nightclub in an old black-and-white movie. Gordon’s also had a smaller, more intimate room called the Blue Note, where you could hear more current music, like bebop.
Before he passed away in 2023, Jack Neely interviewed Gordon Sams about his iconic jazz club and hear some of the true-to-life tales of the jazz legends who played…
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