{"id":6453,"date":"2019-06-26T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T21:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:39:15","slug":"club-zanzibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/club-zanzibar\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Zanzibar: The place where the Jersey sound and voguing flourished"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>By the late 1970s, New York had a number of nightclub destinations for queer folk.<\/h1>\n<p>There were the exclusive parties at Nicky Siano\u2019s The Loft, the sped-up house tracks pulsating from <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/house-house-brief-history-paradise-garage-genre-defined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paradise Garage<\/a>, and the celebrity-laden elusive gatherings at the famed Studio 54. However, drive a little past the Lincoln Tunnel towards the Garden State, and you\u2019ll find the Lincoln Hotel in Newark, New Jersey. Hidden on the second floor was a ballroom where patrons could hear disco, R&amp;B, and the burgeoning new sound known as \u201chouse.\u201d You\u2019ve just stepped into Club Zanzibar, Newark\u2019s answer to the discotheques of New York City, where legendary DJs like Tony Humphries and Kerri Chandler got their starts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6461 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Club_Zanzibar_Map.png\" alt=\"club-zanzibar-spotlights-map\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Club_Zanzibar_Map.png 1080w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Club_Zanzibar_Map-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Club_Zanzibar_Map-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Club_Zanzibar_Map-255x255.png 255w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Club_Zanzibar_Map-768x768.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1080px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1080\/1080;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located on the corner of Broad Street was a red velvet and burgundy tapered motel, originally a Holiday Inn. Purchased and refurbished by owner Miles Berger, the developer had an interest in starting a new club but zero experience in night entertainment. Gerald T, asked to DJ at the new venue, suggested that they install a sound system by engineer Richard Long. To give Berger a sense of what direction the club should take, Long brought him to Paradise Garage. Berger fell in love with the venue and <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.redbullmusicacademy.com\/2015\/02\/nightclubbing-zanzibar-oral-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planned to replicate it for Jersey.<\/a> Often called Paradise Garage\u2019s little sister, much of the space was based off of it, using the exact same sound system, Thorens turntables, reel-to-reel machines, and more in a much smaller space. The club officially opened its doors on Labor Day weekend of 1979. Gerald T played The Sugarhill Gang\u2019s \u201cRapper\u2019s Delight,\u201d handed to him by Joe Robinson of Sugar Hill Records that night, to an excited and receptive crowd.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Rapper&#039;s Delight (Long Version)\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TBMuGCw8hJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Tony Humphries and the Jersey sound<\/h2>\n<p>Considered as one of the forefathers of house music alongside Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries would eventually become a resident at Zanzibar in 1982. He got his start DJing for WRKS 98.7 Kiss-FM in New York, playing many records by label Philly International (home to Patti LaBelle, Harold Melvin &amp; The Blue Notes, and Teddy Pendergrass, among many others). Like the club founders of Zanzibar, Humphries was also deeply inspired by Paradise Garage. \u201cI\u2019m not even going to try to play the Paradise Garage,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbullmusicacademy.com\/lectures\/tony-humphries-lecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he recalled to Red Bull Music Academy in 2014.<\/a> \u201cI never got a chance to play that. I said, \u2018This is going to be my Paradise Garage, right here,\u2019 and that\u2019s what I tried to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tony Humphries - 98.7 Kiss FM Mastermix Dance Party (1994)\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MiqjmItLk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DJing a few gigs here and there at Zanzibar, he eventually convinced the club owners to give him a regular slot on Wednesday nights. Initially, he took great inspiration from Larry Levan\u2019s work at the Garage. \u201cThe way [Levan] handled a super club, I should call it, every week, it was just intriguing to me,\u201d he said. \u201cHow can this man play so long? You come in there at one in the morning and he\u2019s still playing the next day. That became sort of my thing. I wanted to be able to learn how to play for a long stretch of time.\u201d He eventually forged his own techniques, taking cues from his days at Kiss FM. \u201cThe way you handle radio, I was doing it at Zanzibar,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI would make sure that I would play a familiar song within 15 &#8211; 20 minutes. I would play a male song 15-20 minutes, a female song. I would play a track. That was the way I kept them there for like seven, eight, nine hours. I wasn\u2019t going to play all the hits in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"CLASSIC HOUSE CLUB ZANZIBAR NEWARK VOL2\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ldWbZZnFmrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sound, rising out of Zanzibar by DJs like Humphries, was known as the \u201cthe Jersey Sound,\u201d the Garden State\u2019s take on what was being crafted in Chicago at <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/the-warehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Warehouse<\/a> and in New York at Paradise Garage. This take on house music focused more on soulful R&amp;B vocals in comparison to the funk-disco blends of other locations. Hear it below in tracks like Adeva\u2019s \u201cRespect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Respect (Extended Version)\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kK7w2NHx2qY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other performers included vocalist Barbara Tucker, <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.redbullmusicacademy.com\/2015\/02\/nightclubbing-zanzibar-oral-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who told Red Bull Music Academy in 2015,<\/a> \u201cI was blessed to perform my own &#8216;Beautiful People,&#8217; &#8216;Deep Inside,&#8217; and &#8216;I Get Lifted&#8217; at Zanzibar. It was the kind of place where the music, house music, could generate a kind of love energy, so it was a wonderful place to be. The energy, the vibe, the music selection\u2026 it was all good.\u201d DJ Jon Martin recalled the welcoming space as well. \u201cThe room would get gayer and gayer as the night went on,\u201d he said. \u201cI went to Zanzibar for the first time in 1988 for Paris Dupree\u2019s Ball, <em>Paris is Burning<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Paris Dupree and voguing at Zanzibar<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OWKUuxxUUEs<\/p>\n<p>One of Club Zanzibar\u2019s greatest legacies is as the location for <em>Paris is Burning<\/em>, Jennie Livingston\u2019s 1990 documentary about ballroom culture. For those unfamiliar, ballroom (or ball) focuses on voguing, a type of dance inspired by modeling images from <em>Vogue<\/em> magazine. Voguing competitions gained popularity from the 1960s through the 1980s in \u201chouses.\u201d Houses were communities fostered for black and latino queer folk throughout the US, who were facing extraordinary amounts of violence, poverty, and the ongoing AIDS crisis. Famous houses included the House of Xtravaganza (one of the first Latino houses in Harlem), the House of Ninja, and the House of Dupree, where Paris Dupree not only created a community in New York, but also spearheaded voguing competitions, pitting house against house. Octavia St. Laurent, a subject of the <em>Paris is Burning<\/em> documentary, said to Dazed Digital in 2009 that \u201cthe concept of what a ball was&#8230; It was a victory to us. Something serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6460 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters.png\" alt=\"club-zanzibar-spotlights-posters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters.png 1920w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-400x250.png 400w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-355x222.png 355w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-500x312.png 500w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-345x215.png 345w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-1200x750.png 1200w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Pride-2019-Spotlights-Club-Zanzibar-posters-250x156.png 250w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1920px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1920\/1200;\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Zanzibar closes<\/h2>\n<p>By the 1990s, Humphries was finding success in the UK, where his mixtapes had become popular. House, and subsequently garage, were exports exploding in popularity over in London. When he returned to Zanzibar, he experienced what had become a new club. \u201cAfter I finally got back from that time in London, the club had changed a lot. It just wasn\u2019t the same,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.redbullmusicacademy.com\/2015\/02\/nightclubbing-zanzibar-oral-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he recalled to Red Bull Music Academy.<\/a> \u201cThey had finally decided to make it a very hip hop-friendly place.\u201d New owners came in, changed the name to Brick City, and catered to the hip hop sound that was dominating the East Coast. \u201cIt was sad, but by then I had the international thing going pretty strong&#8230; so it could have been worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gerald T echoes the sentiment. \u201cOnce Zanzibar went hip hop, that was it. There was fighting, stabbings, all kinds of stuff. I was happy that I was out of there by then.\u201d Kerri Chandler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attackmagazine.com\/features\/interview\/kerri-chandler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recalled a tragic story to Attack Magazine.<\/a> \u201cMy girlfriend was murdered outside the club. [That] was typical,\u201d he said. \u201cMy girlfriend Tracy at the time\u2026 her ex-boyfriend didn\u2019t like the idea of us being together at all. This night Tracy was going to stop at Zanzibar first then meet me at Club America. He was at Zanzibar that night and saw her in the club, walked out with her I guess, raped her behind the club, bashed her head open with a rock, and left her dead. It was a few days before he confessed to what he did and what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humphries recalls seeing the writing on the wall. \u201cThe numbers at Zanzibar were starting to go down,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.residentadvisor.net\/features\/3076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told Resident Advisor in 2017.<\/a> \u201cThe gay crowd started having other places to go, women were not coming as much. [They] made it into a hip hop sort of place, so it wasn&#8217;t my thing anymore. There wasn&#8217;t anything I could do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before eventually moving to London, Humphries played his final set at Zanzibar, closing out with Archie Bell &amp; The Drells\u2019 \u201cWhere Will You Go When the Party\u2019s Over.&#8221; \u201cIt was my last song to a tearful audience at [Club Zanzibar],&#8221; Humphries explained. \u201cIt was around 5:30 am, after being given the permission to stay and play as long as I wanted to. The song is very dear to the Club Zanzibar core people. Known for being a Philly International fanatic, I thought this was fitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Where Will You Go When the Party&#039;s Over\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fh2GNJ8kDwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hear some of the tracks spun at Club Zanzibar in our Spotify playlist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 380px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/4XASQ1Dx9NAn93v9599wsY?si=4k8glnx7QyOePCWorDNC-g\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Explore royalty-free sounds from leading artists, producers, and sound designers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/sounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Join Splice today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on our exploration of Club Zanzibar, Newark&#8217;s historical music venue where the Jersey sound and voguing flourished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":10936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1693,1692],"tags":[1386,479,1690],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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