Ford Auditorium

Address:

20 E. Jefferson Avenue

City:

Detroit

Region:

Michigan

Country:

USA

Postal Code:

48226

Opened:

1956

Closed:

1989

Capacity:

3,000

Photo Credit:

By Goldnpuppy - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12805911

Concerts

Event	Date	Featured Artist(s)
Jazz @ the Philharmonic	09/20/1957	Roy Eldridge Ella Fitzgerald Stan Getz Coleman Hawkins Milt Jackson Illinois Jacquet J. J. Johnson Papa Jo Jones Modern Jazz Quartet Oscar Peterson Flip Phillips Sonny Stitt Lester Young
Ted Heath	10/10/1958	Ted Heath
New Jazz @ Ford Auditorium	02/13/1959	Cannonball Adderley Dave Brubeck Paul Chambers John Coltrane Miles Davis Paul Desmond Red Garland Thelonious Monk Joe Morello Sarah Vaughan
America's Top Jazz Concert	05/02/1959	Benny Goodman Ahmad Jamal Dakota Staton
Greatest Jazz Festival of 1959	05/14/1959	Stan Kenton Ramsey Lewis George Shearing
Battle of Jazz	05/25/1959	Duke Ellington Sarah Vaughan Stan Kenton Sam Cooke
Ahmad Jamal Trio	02/19/1960	Ahmad Jamal
Ella Fitzgerald	10/01/1960	Ella Fitzgerald
Pete Seeger	02/04/1961	Pete Seeger
Odetta	03/11/1961	Odetta
The Limeliters	04/22/1961	The Limeliters
Miriam Makeba	11/10/1961	Miriam Makeba
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	11/17/1961	Duke Ellington
Ferrante & Teicher	01/09/1962	Ferrante & Teicher
The Limeliters	05/04/1962	The Limeliters
Ella Fitzgerald	06/03/1962	Ella Fitzgerald
Joan Baez	11/07/1962	Joan Baez
Stan Getz	02/20/1963	Stan Getz
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	03/28/1963	Duke Ellington
Dinah Washington	05/31/1963	Dinah Washington
George Shearing Quintet	10/24/1964	George Shearing
Dorothy Ashby Trio	02/14/1965	Dorothy Ashby
The Dave Clark Five	06/18/1966	The Dave Clark Five
Soul Show	09/23/1966	Moms Mabley The Miracles
London-Look Beauty Bash	05/06/1967	The Four Seasons The Rationals The Unrelated Segments