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| | Downtown Music IV: Loft Jazz, 1972-79 |
 | | In addition to Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea, other key Soho and Noho venues included: Ali's Alley, run by drummer Rashied Ali, a veteran of the John Coltrane quartet; pianist John Fischer's Environ; and The Ladies' Fort, run by singer Joe Lee Wilson, just down the street from Studio Rivbea. |
 | | Studio We was on Eldridge Street, on the Lower East Side, and percussionist Warren Smith's Studio WIS and The Brook were located in Chelsea. |
 | | Other venues that occasionally featured the same musicians included the Tin Palace, a club at Bowery and 2nd Street, Jazzmania Society, a loft in the East 20s, and La Mama theatre on East 4th. |
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