Lorraine Gordon

Biography

Lorraine Gordon was a jazz music advocate and owner of the Village Vanguard club in New York City, whose artistic direction she guided in part. A longtime fan of jazz since her teenage years, she recorded works by notable artists including Sidney Bechet and Thelonious Monk with her first husband Alfred Lion in the 1940s. She also became a prominent peace activist, joining Women Strike for Peace against nuclear weapons testing and the Vietnam War.