<P> The Village had a cutting - edge cabaret and music scene . The Village Gate , the Village Vanguard , and The Blue Note ( since 1981 ) , regularly hosted some of the biggest names in jazz . Greenwich Village also played a major role in the development of the folk music scene of the 1960s . Music clubs included Gerde 's Folk City , The Bitter End , Cafe Au Go Go , Cafe Wha ? , The Gaslight Cafe and The Bottom Line . Three of the four members of The Mamas & the Papas met there . Guitarist and folk singer Dave Van Ronk lived there for many years . Village resident and cultural icon Bob Dylan by the mid-60s had become one of the world 's foremost popular songwriters , and often developments in Greenwich Village would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco and elsewhere , and vice versa . Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village 's nightclub , theater , and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s , 1960s , and early 1970s , including Jimi Hendrix , Barbra Streisand , Peter , Paul , and Mary , Bette Midler , The Lovin ' Spoonful , Simon & Garfunkel , Liza Minnelli , Jackson Browne , James Taylor , Eric Andersen , Joan Baez , The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem , The Velvet Underground , The Kingston Trio , Carly Simon , Richie Havens , Maria Muldaur , Tom Paxton , Janis Ian , Phil Ochs , Joni Mitchell , Laura Nyro , and Nina Simone . The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs 's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities , which defended it and similar communities , while criticizing common urban renewal policies of the time . </P>
<P> The Village had a cutting - edge cabaret and music scene . The Village Gate , the Village Vanguard , and The Blue Note ( since 1981 ) , regularly hosted some of the biggest names in jazz . Greenwich Village also played a major role in the development of the folk music scene of the 1960s . Music clubs included Gerde 's Folk City , The Bitter End , Cafe Au Go Go , Cafe Wha ? , The Gaslight Cafe and The Bottom Line . Three of the four members of The Mamas & the Papas met there . Guitarist and folk singer Dave Van Ronk lived there for many years . Village resident and cultural icon Bob Dylan by the mid-60s had become one of the world 's foremost popular songwriters , and often developments in Greenwich Village would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco and elsewhere , and vice versa . Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village 's nightclub , theater , and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s , 1960s , and early 1970s , including Jimi Hendrix , Barbra Streisand , Peter , Paul , and Mary , Bette Midler , The Lovin ' Spoonful , Simon & Garfunkel , Liza Minnelli , Jackson Browne , James Taylor , Eric Andersen , Joan Baez , The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem , The Velvet Underground , The Kingston Trio , Carly Simon , Richie Havens , Maria Muldaur , Tom Paxton , Janis Ian , Phil Ochs , Joni Mitchell , Laura Nyro , and Nina Simone . The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs 's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities , which defended it and similar communities , while criticizing common urban renewal policies of the time . </P>
where did bob dylan play in new york
where did bob dylan play in new york
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village