Jackie McLean Interview, Down Beat 9/12/63

[clifford_thornton]

Indeed. I don't know why I thought the band with Moncur didn't play in NY. Maybe clubs in Brooklyn weren't subject to the same laws? I suppose Newark would've been off the hook.

[JSngry]

Perhaps relevant, perhaps not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Card

In 1960, Lord Buckley died soon after his card was seized under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing scandal led to the abolition of the cabaret card system. Following the seizure of Buckley's card, Harold L. Humes convened a "Citizens' Emergency Committee"—which included Norman Mailer, David Amram, and Norman Podhoretz—in the apartment of writer George Plimpton. Humes and Maxwell T. Cohen, Buckley's lawyer, confronted Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy at a raucous hearing. In January 1961, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. announced that control of the cabaret card system would be removed from the New York City Police Department.^[7] The system was abolished in its entirety in 1967, with the New York City Council voting 35-1 to eliminate the required cards. The Council's discussion of the issue included the reading of a message from Frank Sinatra, who would not perform in New York City and had refused to apply for a cabaret card, citing the application and investigation process as "demeaning".