The Pythodd Room information

The Pythodd Room

Pythodd Room c.1950s
Address	159 Troup Street Rochester, New York United States of America
Coordinates	43°9′3″N 77°37′7″W / 43.15083°N 77.61861°W / 43.15083; -77.61861
Type	jazz club
Capacity	240 persons
Record attendance	Over 400 persons
Opened	Private opening: c.1930s, Public opening: 1953
Years active	As a private meeting hall: c.1930s—1942. As a membership-based social club: 1942—1953. As a privately owned music venue open to the public: 1953—1966 (closed 1966—1968), 1969—1972

The Pythodd Room ("The Pythodd") was a prominent jazz club on the national Chitlin' Circuit located on Clarissa Street, in Rochester, New York's historic Third Ward neighborhood which had many African American businesses.^[1] At 159 Troup Street, it was originally intended as a meeting space for two local Black-run benevolent societies, the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows. By the 1950s, notable jazz musicians such as Pee Wee Ellis, Ron Carter, Roy McCurdy, and brothers Chuck Mangione and Gap Mangione began their careers as young regular performers at the Pythodd.