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  • In November 1987, the Down Home Jazz Band recorded Hambone Kelly's Favorites in a studio in the City of Alameda, just a few miles south of El Cerrito. The cover features the band superimposed over a photo of the nightclub. (https://archive.org/details/DownHomeJazzBand04DownInJungleTown)
  • Tom Baker’s Jazz Band recorded Hambone Kelly’s Revisited, an 18-track album of songs played by the YBGB. On the cover, the background image is the canopied entrance to the club.
  • In England, a club called Hambone Kelly’s was located at The Cardinal Wolsey at Hampton Court, with Charlie Gall in residence. A membership card for the club can be seen at http://www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/forumjazzclubcards.html