Information and history on reverse side:
Pittsburgh was a natural stopping-off point for jazz musicians on their way to New York City during the height of the jazz age.   Top entertainers,  many with Pittsburgh roots,  found their way back home to the Hill District and such hot spots as the Crawford Grill,  the Aragon Ballroom and the Hurricane Music Bar.
   The Grill opened in 1943 and,  like Birdland and Smalls Paradise in New York,  Mr. Kelly's in Chicago and The Lighthouse in San Francisco,  was the center of the jazz experience for its city residents.   Owned by William A. (Gus) Greenlee,  also the owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team,  and later by Joe Robinson Sr. and his son,  "Buzzy" Robinson,  it was a significant part of Pittsburgh's and the nation's jazz history,  as well as a major center for black social and cultural life in the Hill District.   The Grill still serves this need under the current owner,  Les Montgomery,  and is a major jazz club for local musicians.
   Many Pittsburgh jazz greats played there,  including pianist-composers Billy Stryhorn and Mary Lou Williams;  pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines,  Erroll Garner and Ahmad Jamal;  singers Billy Eckstine and Dakota Station;  drummer Art Blakey;  sax-man Stanley Turrentine;  trumpeter Roy Eldridge;  Bassist Ray Brown;  and guitarist George Benson.