Manny Roth, colorful owner of New York's Cafe Wha? club, dies at 94

... uncle of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth, was a good man to know during a special place and time - when Greenwich Village was a magnet for upcoming artists and bohemians. On a given night, you might see Woody Allen doing standup or take in ...

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Manny Roth, owner of New York's iconic Cafe Wha?, dies at 94

... Ojai, California. He was the uncle of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth. Roth was a central figure in the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960s, as his plain basement room on Macdougal Street became the home of countless great performers, notes ...

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Jean Bach, Jazz Documentarian and Fan, Dies at 94

Jean Bach, a lifelong jazz zealot whose fascination with a photograph of the titans of jazz gathered in front of a Harlem brownstone in 1958 led her to make a prizewinning movie about that moment, "A Great Day in Harlem," 36 years later, died on Monday at her home in New York.

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