Charles Alston’s Harlem Street Scene , circa 1940, Courtesy of The New York Public Library
April is national jazz month. Here is another stories in our series on food and jazz. In a 1965 interview the southern born artist Charles Alston (1907-1977) describes Harlem as a place where one could stand on the corner of 135th Street on a Sunday afternoon and “see anyone who was anybody in Harlem.” Nights clubs featured renowned jazz artist like piano players Bobby Henderson and Art Tatum and singer Billie Holiday For a great after hour meal, there was Tillie's Chicken Shack located on 133 Street.
