Скачать или смотреть You Can Fly (feat. Gay Dalzell) • Sunday night Jazz, Athens Ohio (5.17.1987)

Track: You Can Fly
Sunday, May 31, 1987 • Union Bar and Grill

JAZZ JAM
Dave Borowski (bass) • Pete O’Connor (keys) • Bernie Nau (piano) • Mark Hellenberg (drums) • Gay Dalzell (voice) • Chris Kearney (drums)

Sunday nights in Athens (OH) during the mid-eighties, a mix of local musicians held a Jazz night. They performed a mix of standards, traditional and modern jazz. The core players were the same but the venue changed over time. From my memory, jazz Sundays started at the far end of Court Street in the basement of a restaurant called Beards. Later it moved to O’Hooley’s. In my final days, the jam happened in the back of the Union Gar and Grill, downstairs. They had to move pinball machines and games to the back hall to make room.

Those nights were always colorful.

Photos by Patty Mitchell. Newspaper Athens News c.1986