From the New York Times:
BROOKLYN: A NEW JAZZ CLUB SUDDENLY CLOSES
On Sept. 17 Steve Getz, a son of the great tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and a veteran of the jazz business, opened a new club in Brooklyn that he hoped would be a melting pot for established musicians and younger players. Inside iO, an Italian restaurant on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, the club, called the Steve Getz Music Hall, had an impressive schedule for its first several weeks, with a Stan Getz tribute on opening night, the pianists David Kikoski, Kenny Barron and Marc Copland, a seven-piece swing band led by Warren Vaché and a "saxophone summit" of three tenors and three altos. But on Oct. 17, exactly one month after it opened and despite bookings that stretched to the end of the year, the club closed. "My financial partner backed out," Mr. Getz said yesterday. "And that's the name of that tune." Mr. Getz, who booked the club Fat Tuesday's in the 1980's and has worked as a manager, said he hoped to reopen the club soon, though perhaps as far away as Malibu, Calif., where he has had negotiations with Herb Alpert. "I don't really want to go back to California," he said, "but a job's a job."
BROOKLYN: A NEW JAZZ CLUB SUDDENLY CLOSES
On Sept. 17 Steve Getz, a son of the great tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and a veteran of the jazz business, opened a new club in Brooklyn that he hoped would be a melting pot for established musicians and younger players. Inside iO, an Italian restaurant on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, the club, called the Steve Getz Music Hall, had an impressive schedule for its first several weeks, with a Stan Getz tribute on opening night, the pianists David Kikoski, Kenny Barron and Marc Copland, a seven-piece swing band led by Warren Vaché and a "saxophone summit" of three tenors and three altos. But on Oct. 17, exactly one month after it opened and despite bookings that stretched to the end of the year, the club closed. "My financial partner backed out," Mr. Getz said yesterday. "And that's the name of that tune." Mr. Getz, who booked the club Fat Tuesday's in the 1980's and has worked as a manager, said he hoped to reopen the club soon, though perhaps as far away as Malibu, Calif., where he has had negotiations with Herb Alpert. "I don't really want to go back to California," he said, "but a job's a job."
