Remembering the Pythodd

Documentary Short

2013

Source: Tina Chapman-DaCosta

The Pythodd Lives Again (by Tim Louis MacLuso)

Jazz and African-American and diverse business district (Clarissa St was Rochester’s “Broadway”: Gibson Hotel, Pythodd Jazz Club, Shep’s Paradise)

August 14, 2013

Source: City Magazine

January 8, 2003

Source: City Newspaper

Date Unknown

Source: University of Rochester Rare Books & Special Collections

Remember When… focus on Pythodd (Segment starts at 49:51-57.44)

Includes interior footage of the Pythodd, ca. late 1960s.

March 7, 1998

Source: WXXI

January 29, 2018

Source: Channel 8-WROC

June 19, 2015

Source: Democrat & Chronicle

Date Unknown

Source: Wikipedia

Date Unknown

Source: Wikipedia

June 28, 2019

Source: Local History Rocs! Office of Rochester & Monroe County History

May 17, 2012

Source: Nazareth College Arts Center

Jazz 90.1 University Class, Part 1: History Of Jazz In Rochester

Connections between Pythodd & urban renewal + overall Roc jazz scene

January 23, 2020

Source: Derrick Lucas

Jazz 90.1 University Class, Part 2: History Of Jazz In Rochester

Connections between Pythodd & urban renewal + overall Roc jazz scene

January 23, 2020

Source: Derrick Lucas

2019

Source: Corn Hill Neighbors Association

February 18, 2017

Source: Democrat & Chronicle

September 27, 2021

Source: New York Times

October 5, 2021

Source: Democrat & Chronicle

2022

Source: PBS / Partisan Pictures

Paul Conley: In memoriam (Pythodd manager from 1966-73)

He was there from ages 20-27 so he could give an idea what it was like to be in the environment as a young man and explain the sense of family and community the club had.

December 2021

Source: Jazz 90.1