In 1926, a little jazz club was opened in the basement of a drugstore located at 11th and U St. called Club Caverns. The club became known as Bohemian Caverns in the late 1950's and has brought a great many artists to its stage, including immortals such as Washington's Son Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billy Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Louis Armstrong, Ramsey Lewis, Less McCann, Miles Davis, Shirley Horn, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Wynton Marsalis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and even Bill Cosby.