Re: Feenjon Group's Manny Dworman dead at 73

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

RIP Manny Dworman.

Ah the memories of Manny and the original Cafe Feenjon. Steve Knight, are
you still around? The only blond gringo in the group. My folksinger husband
Frank and I came there frequently. Not only great music and ambiance, but a
collection of fabulous habitues. There was Igor (pronounced Eegr) reputed to
be KBG. I remember one New Years Eve  at the original location at 7th Ave.
South when the joint rocked until about 7 AM New Years Day (61 or 62) and
all the survivors wound up having a two hour breakfast at Howard Johnson's
on 8th Street. 


Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore, Maryland





on 1/2/04 2:50 PM, Ethan Minovitz at eminovitz (at) canoemail(dot)com wrote:

> Manny (Menakhem) Dworman, who performed at Cafe Feenjon with his
> band, the Feenjon Group, died Sunday, his son said. He was 73.
> 
> The Feenjon Group recorded five albums, performed at Carnegie Hall,
> and inspired the radio show "Music From Around the World."
> 
> Dworman owned a Greenwich Village nightspot where comedians including
> Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano and John Stewart performed.
> 
> He was also a musician who played the oud, guitar and mandolin, and
> who owned the Comedy Cellar on Macdougal Street and the Olive Tree
> Cafe upstairs. 
> 
> The club was previously the site of Cafe Feenjon, a Middle Eastern
> nightclub which originally opened as a coffeehouse in 1960.
> 
> Comedy Cellar, which opened in 1980, also hosted performances by
> Chris Rock and Colin Quinn, and discussions at the club inspired
> Comedy Central's "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn."
> 
> Dworman was featured in the 2002 documentary "Comedian" by Seinfeld.
> 
> He also appeared in the 1963 horror film "The Fat Black Pussycat."
> 
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