 Over time, the club segued into cabaret acts, comedy, folk music and jazz before going exclusively jazz in 1957.The club hosted a who's who of jazz greats from the 1940s to the 1980s including John Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Dinah Washington, Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Henry Threadgill and Thelonious Monk (at the time an unknown, discovered by Gordon's wife Lorraine).The club's artistic direction was in part guided by Lorraine who had a keen interest in jazz.