What's the point?!
I was chatting with friends over a beer last night and we got on the subject of Zorba's, a campustown restaurant that's been hosting live jazz on Thursday nights for several years (and ably booked by Jeff Machota, who deserves a couple of beers himself for all the hard work).
Anyway, we collectively couldn't recall any of the history of Zorba's before it revived music around the 1990s. Nothing we couldn't dope out by making a phone call or dropping an email, but it got me thinking, there's certainly a case to be made that documenting the history and state of the jazz scene in this area could and should be an ongoing effort.
So, here we are.
Comment away, and feel free to email me if the mood strikes you.
Now, on to research that Zorba's question...
Anyway, we collectively couldn't recall any of the history of Zorba's before it revived music around the 1990s. Nothing we couldn't dope out by making a phone call or dropping an email, but it got me thinking, there's certainly a case to be made that documenting the history and state of the jazz scene in this area could and should be an ongoing effort.
So, here we are.
Comment away, and feel free to email me if the mood strikes you.
Now, on to research that Zorba's question...
posted by Jeff Helgesen at
8:42 AM
2 Comments:
well here's what i know, or have heard, about Zorba's jazz. In the 70s they had a piano and jazz quite often. Ron Dewar played there and is represented in the mural in the back along with others who played there.
I am not sure when or why they stopped doing jazz. I know for sure by 1984 when i got to town they were not doing jazz anymore.
When Nature's Table was torn down in 1991, Val Stafford (who worked at the Table and then Zorba's) convinced the owner at the time to do jazz on Thursday nights and blues on Fridays or Saturdays. I helped her get it going and then took over from her when she left Zorba's in 1993(?). I think the Friday or Saturday nights had already stopped and I just did the Thursdays.
The valve trombone player depicted on the back mural is, I believe, John Sexton. His father, Haskall Sexton, was the trumpet professor here in the 1960s, I believe.
Post a Comment
<< Home