El Morocco

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

French Quarter jazz & R&B club on east corner of Iberville & Bourbon:down from Sho Bar: From the New Orleans Jazz History Central Vieux Carre Walking Tour brochure: 200 Bourbon Street: “During the late forties and early fifties Phil Zito then George Lewis held forth.”

1950 photo of Lawrence Marrero on the banjo and Alcide ‘Slow Drag’ Pavageau on the bass providing entertainment at the El Morocco Club is in the Ralston Crawford Jazz Photography collection in the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University.

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