Your Perfect Jazz Club

[Miss 1929]

At the Jazzschool, where I worked for a couple of years, they tuned their piano every week. It's a 1918 Steinway...

But even every 6 months would be nice!

Note to the guys putting up a club - get a baby grand. It sounds better, looks better, the pianist can see over it to the rest of the band, and it's easier to move than an upright. If there's a local symphony or opera, they sometimes sell off their leased instruments when it's time to get new ones, and you will get a goody that has been taken care of.

If you have to settle for an electric piano, it MUST have all 88 keys. No short keyboards.

 

[Rundquist]

Rundquist, what are you driving at?

Last time I checked nobody of that icky vintage clothing scene you seem to dislike crashes modern crummy Jazz joints.

Gee whiz, I get so tired of all those clubs of early hot jazz, those dorks with their clean cut appearance, and those slick hair styled guys behind the bar shaking their martini shakers in unison like it's some Busby Berkley movie... Oh if they could just all disappear... Wait, they did... they don't exist no more! WHOA! That's crazy, well, that's good because if we had any club like that, it would annoy Runquist and we can't have that! lol

PS: I believe the thread is "Your Perfect Jazz Club" and I described mine, no one else has to come if they don't appreciate what I may define as perfect.

My point is that the product is more important than the packaging. You're right though, my point of view doesn't really address the topic directly. However, if jazz is not relevant to the average person, then the jazz holes don’t stay open, more and more jazz musicians continue to starve, and young people that might have become musicians decide that they want to become “DJ’s” instead.

Despite what one might think, I don’t have a problem with somebody wearing vintage clothes or enjoying vintage music. A man can walk around in a tutu for all I care, as long as it makes him happy. I look down my nose at no man. But yeah, I have a problem with jazz music becoming a nostalgia act. Jazz is on life-support right now. If it is to survive, it needs to be relevant to audiences today.

PS- I’m not sure why you singled me out, besides the fact that I have an opinion that might not jibe with yours.

 

[Eyemo]

We don't have the same kind of interest in Jazz over here, we also don't have such densely populated areas, so our potential Jazz Club will be all about promoting the music in a small authentic atmospheric enviroment...

If this get off the ground, I would love to be able to invite American Bands over to a very different kind of venue.

Kind regards all...

 

[docneg]

In the mid-'80s, when I lived in South Side Pittsburgh, a great little jazz club opened a few blocks from my house. Anthonys SouthSide (that's right; no apostrophe) was at street level right on the main drag and had many name acts perform there. But the real treat was Wednesday nights--jam night. Incredible musicians all came just to have fun with each other, every week. The walls were decorated with classic album covers. I got to be friends with the owner, Anthony, and hung out there a lot.

Besides being small, intimate, friendly, and cheap, it had something else that made it the perfect jazz club in my opinion--I could stagger home easily!