Apparently Grove Music Online has a list of jazz nightclubs from all around the world.
Fatty’s JazzCasino.It was established in 1955 by Fatty George as a venue for his Two Sounds Band, which included Joe Zawinul and Carl Drewo. In February 1956 Lionel Hampton visited the club and an album was recorded there (
Fatty George Meets Lionel Hampton, Mastertone 013). It closed in 1958, when George opened new premises as Fatty's Saloon.
Fatty’s Saloon.
Petersplatz. It was opened in 1958 by Fatty George, whose new band at the time included the trumpeter Fred Wallisch and Heinz Bigler. Among the major American and European jazz musicians to have played there are Hans Koller, Oscar Pettiford, Attila Zoller, George Maycock, Ella Fitzgerald, Cat Anderson, Jimmy Hamilton, John Lewis, Art Blakey, Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard, and Herb Ellis; Friedrich Gulda often performed and rehearsed at the saloon.
Jazzland.
29 Franz Josephs Kai. Built into the catacombs of a medieval church, this jazz club was founded by Axel Melhardt and Klaus Schulz; on 4 March 1972 Albert Nicholas appeared at its opening as a guest soloist with the Austrian traditional-jazz group the Red Hot Pods. Under Melhardt's management from 1973, it became the most important jazz venue in Austria. By the late 1990s more than 300 notable American and European jazz and blues musicians had appeared there, among them Max Kaminsky, Wild Bill Davison, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Jay McShann, Al Grey, Roy Eldridge, Peanuts Hucko, Kai Winding, Harry Edison, Joe Newman, Dexter Gordon, Cecil Payne, Hal Singer, Lee Konitz, Shelly Manne, Art Hodes, Ralph Sutton, Bob Wilber, Warren Vaché, Ken Peplowski, Lew Tabackin, Barbara Dennerlein, Albert Mangelsdorff, Attila Zoller, Guy Lafitte, Danny Moss, and Dusko Goykovich; for many years Art Farmer appeared with his European quintet three times annually. The most important Austrian traditional and mainstream jazz groups, such as Together, Just Friends, Jazzclusive, the Barrelhouse Jazzband, the Original Storyville Jazzband, and Oscar Klein’s band, also play there often. (A. Melhardt: Geschichte und G’schictln: 20 Jahre Jazzland, Vienna, 1992).
Porgy & Bess.
2 Spiegelgasse. It was founded by Mathias Rüegg, Renald Deppe, and Christof Huber in 1992 as a venue for jazz projects. Many American, European, and Austrian avant-garde and bop musicians have performed there, including Charles Lloyd, Michel Portal, Herbert Joos, Dieter Glawischnig, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tommy Flanagan, Wolfgang Muthspiel, his brother the trombonist Christian Muthspiel, Karl Ratzer, the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra, the NDR Big Band, Lee Konitz, and Attila Zoller. In May 1998 it closed; however, it reopened, with financial help from the Austrian government, at a new location on Riemergasse on 28 December 2000. ( (2001))
WeihburgBar.
It presented jazz from at least the 1920s. Among the jazz musicians who performed there were Arthur Briggs with the Savoy Sycops Orchestra (three times between 1925 and 1927), which was one of the first jazz ensembles to play arrangements by Spike Hughes. Eddie South performed there in 1930.
Wiener Metropol.
Hernalser Hauptstrasse 55. Theater. It opened as a general arts center early in 1981 under the artistic direction of Alf Krauliz. As part of its highly varied program of events the Wiener Metropol has offered performances of many kinds of music, among them jazz, rock, and pop; among its other activities are theater, dance, and cabaret, and the center emphasizes entertainment for children and young people. Many notable American and European jazz musicians have performed there, including Bireli Lagrene, Jan Garbarek, Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Lester Bowie, Aladár Pege, Carla Bley, Charlie Mariano, and Baden Powell. The Wiener Metropol publishes a youth magazine, Metropol. ( (2001))
