{"id":81,"date":"2008-04-02T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2008\/04\/jazz_in_transit_2\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:34:43","slug":"jazz_in_transit_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/04\/jazz_in_transit_2.html","title":{"rendered":"jazz clubs in transit"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a sad day when an established stage for national and local jazz closes, as JazzWest.com’s <\/a>Wayne Saroyan reports<\/a> will happen to Jazz at Pearl’s<\/a> in San Francisco’s North Beach (right across the street from\u00c2\u00a0City Lights Books<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0) at the end of April.\u00c2\u00a0One such closing does not signal a trend; small independent venues come and go. San Francisco does have its newly opened\u00c2\u00a0Yoshi’s<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in the historically fascinating\u00c2\u00a0Fillmore district<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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However, here’s another unfortunate instance:\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0Jazz Factory<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in Louisville, Kentucky shut just last week after a five year run; pianist\u00c2\u00a0Harry Pickens<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0led a Farewell Jam.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, in Chicago, Joe Segal told the Tribune’s Howard Reich that his\u00c2\u00a0Jazz Showcase will reopen<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0sometime this spring, well over a year since shutting at its old location. Serious, creative, progressive music inspired by the\u00c2\u00a0AACM<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), including the Sunday early-evening Great Black Music Ensemble, continues at tenor saxophonist\u00c2\u00a0Fred Anderson’s<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Velvet Lounge<\/a>, a rare model of success just two years after moving.\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Also, Good luck to HotHouse, a pan-cultural performance space which restarts presentations April 4 with Seneke, a West African band in partnership with Chi-town’s northside Viaduct Theater. Marguerite Horberg, HotHouse’s founder and longtime guiding force is not involved — she’s taking brave steps toward opening a new venue in (gasp!) Chelsea, in Manhattan. Details tba when she’s ready. . .<\/div>\n

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It’s a sad day when an established stage for national and local jazz closes, as JazzWest.com’s Wayne Saroyan reports will happen to Jazz at Pearl’s in San Francisco’s North Beach (right across the street from\u00c2\u00a0City Lights Books\u00c2\u00a0) at the end of April.\u00c2\u00a0One such closing does not signal a trend; small independent venues come and go. 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