(un)archived: Rockhead’s Paradise (circa 1931 - 1977) video excerpt retrieved from a CBC article written by Sarah Leavitt titled "Hidden treasures: A plastic martini glass and the 'Harlem of the North'" (2017.02.06) - the latter is part of one of my digital bookmarks' folders titled 'knowledge[able]'. " referred to as one of "Montreal’s Harlem’s two outstanding clubs" (the other being Cafe St Michel), Rockhead’s Paradise was founded by a Jamaican-born immigrant by the name of Rufus Rockhead. located at 1258 St-Antoine Street West, corner of de La Montagne, the three-story building welcomed and hosted all-Black stage shows featuring local and international African and Afrodescendant artists - i.e., Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and the list goes on. [...] according to Mark Miller’s "The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada and Canadians in Jazz" (2003), two years after suffering a stroke, Rockhead’s son, Kenny Rockhead, sold the club to Roué Doudou Boicel, who moved his jazz and blues nightclub The Rising Sun there from its original home on Sainte-Catherine Street West. following an unsuccessful move and the consequent return of The Rising Sun to its original location, the building was eventually resold and demolished - a victim of gentrification.