Art Blakey Member Art Blakey Quartet Also played here Cecil Taylor Quintet Also played here Coleman Hawkins Member Coleman Hawkins’ All American Four Also played here Dizzy Gillespie Sextet Also played here Gigi Gryce Member Gigi Gryce Orch-Tette Also played here Gigi Gryce Quintet Also played here Gigi Gryce – Clifford Brown Sextet Also played here John Coltrane Member · 1957 John Coltrane Quintet Also played here Ray Copeland Member Spike Hughes and His Negro Orchestra Also played here The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble Also played here The Art Blakey Quintet Also played here The Chocolate Dandies Also played here Thelonious Monk Member Thelonious Monk Septet This act Wilbur Ware Member