Jimmy Ryan's

The location on 52nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, was one of a row of brownstones with clubs operating in basements. As the last surviving jazz club on 52nd Street, its brownstone – along with all the other brownstones on the north side of the street – were demolished in 1962 to make way for construction of the new CBS Building. CBS had given Jimmy Ryan $9,000 to relocate. The club was owned by partners Matthew C. (Matty) Walsh (1914–2006) and Jimmy Ryan (1911–1963). Walsh, Ryan's brother-in-law, continued ownership following Ryan's death in July 1963 at the French Hospital. Gilbert J. Pincus (1907–1980) – who served as doorman from 1942 to 1962 at the original location and from about 1963 until his death in 1980 – became known as the "Mayor of 52nd Street". == Jazz style ==

During the 1940s, three New York nightclubs stood out as centers for traditional style jazz: Jimmy Ryan's, Nick's in Greenwich Village, and Eddie Condon's, just a few blocks away. == Performing artists ==

Resident musicians in the 1940s • Mezz Mezzrow (1943) • James P. Johnson (1943) • Art Hodes (1945–1949) • J. C. Higginbotham (1946) • Henry "Red" Allen (1946) • Sidney De Paris (1947–1957) • Sidney Bechet (1948) • Max Kaminsky (1948–1949) • Wilbur De Paris (1951–1962) • Zutty Singleton (1963–1970) • Roy Eldridge (1970–1980) Musicians of the Sunday jam sessions, organized and managed by Milt Gabler • Sidney Bechet • Pops Foster • Hot Lips Page • Pee Wee Russell • Eddie Condon • Mezz Mezzrow • Kaiser Marshall • Hank Duncan • Sandy Williams • Brad Gowans • Ben Webster • Chu Berry • Coleman Hawkins • Wildcats == Songs and albums related to the club ==

• Tony Parenti and his Dean's of Dixieland: • ''A Night at Jimmy Ryan's'' (Jazzology, 1967) with Max Kaminsky, Conrad Janis, Davis Quinn, Joe Henshaw, and Zutty Singleton • "Down at Jimmy Ryan's", a renamed version of Theodore Morse and Edward Madden's "Down in Jungletown" • "Blues for Jimmy Ryan" • ''Live at Jimmy's'', a complete album recorded live there by Maynard Ferguson in 1973 == References ==