New jazz venue downtown: St. Louis Jazz Cafe

cityzen · PostDec 29, 2008#12008-12-29T20:39+00:00

Joe Whittington reports in the P-D last Thursday that the St. Louis Jazz Cafe is scheduled to open in March in the old Red Moon space downtown. This is great news! Hopefully the Red Moon decor is still there.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/busine ... enDocument

the central scrutinizer · PostDec 29, 2008#22008-12-29T22:35+00:00

The jazz venue will occupy the space that once housed the Red Moon restaurant in the Terra Cotta Lofts, 1501 Locust Street.

Arnold and Aundra Charleston will be opening it in March. Tim Simms will be putting together the food offerings.

Interest level = 10!

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Arnold Charleston said the new spot would have live entertainment three or four nights a week, and maybe a Sunday jazz brunch.

Interest level goes to 11!

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The rest of the week will consist of local talent and streaming smooth jazz from the Internet.

Interest level goes to 0.

"Once a week we'll get a headliner, and I've been talking with Erin Bode and Tim Cunningham," said Arnold Charleston.

Interest level goes to a guarded 5.

I'll give them a chance, I'll see who they book, and I'll certainly go listen to Erin Bode. But if they book smooth jazz crap, you can count me out. And I'll certainly never go there during the "rest of the week".

dweebe · PostDec 29, 2008#32008-12-29T23:31+00:00

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:
Arnold Charleston said the new spot would have live entertainment three or four nights a week, and maybe a Sunday jazz brunch.

Cool. Now if St. Louis can just get a good gospel brunch like Stubbs BBQ in Austin Texas or some of the places down in New Orleans. Then I'd be happy.

magnatron · PostDec 29, 2008#42008-12-29T23:50+00:00

Please no Kenny G Pleeeeease [-o<

chrisindowntown · PostJan 29, 2009#52009-01-29T18:22+00:00

Got a mailer the other day asking to sign off on approving the liquor license. I am assuming this one will go considering there was a bar in here previously?

jeff707 · PostJan 29, 2009#62009-01-29T19:25+00:00

dweebe wrote:
The Central Scrutinizer wrote:
Arnold Charleston said the new spot would have live entertainment three or four nights a week, and maybe a Sunday jazz brunch.

Cool. Now if St. Louis can just get a good gospel brunch like Stubbs BBQ in Austin Texas or some of the places down in New Orleans. Then I'd be happy.

BB's has a gospel brunch on Sundays

jcity · PostJan 30, 2009#72009-01-30T04:00+00:00

bring back LO!

the central scrutinizer · PostJan 30, 2009#82009-01-30T04:19+00:00

Jeff707 wrote:
dweebe wrote:
The Central Scrutinizer wrote:

Cool. Now if St. Louis can just get a good gospel brunch like Stubbs BBQ in Austin Texas or some of the places down in New Orleans. Then I'd be happy.

BB's has a gospel brunch on Sundays

I did not know that. I'll have to check it out. Hopefully "real" gospel and not Amy Grant crap.

cityzen · PostMar 19, 2009#92009-03-19T18:56+00:00

Grand Opening is this Saturday.

http://www.stlouisjazzcafe.com

innov8ion · PostMar 19, 2009#102009-03-19T19:11+00:00

I had brunch there this past Sunday. The chef was quite personable, the food was presented well and tasted great. Should be a great place for live jazz with friends or significant others.

9ine Runner · PostMar 19, 2009#112009-03-19T23:33+00:00

anyone know a place that has live spanish guitar? that's what we need next, although it wouldn't be unreasonable for a restaurant to just book spanish guitar from time to time

a spanish guitar restaurant would be awesome though

framer · PostMar 20, 2009#122009-03-20T04:54+00:00

OT. I saw a flamenco dancer with a live guitarist at that wine bar on Grand just South of Arsenal. That was some time ago, though. I have no idea if they still perform there.

contractorkitchens · PostMar 20, 2009#132009-03-20T12:46+00:00

Arch_Genesis wrote:anyone know a place that has live spanish guitar? that's what we need next, although it wouldn't be unreasonable for a restaurant to just book spanish guitar from time to time

a spanish guitar restaurant would be awesome though

Modesto

threeonefour · PostMar 20, 2009#142009-03-20T13:09+00:00

I checked the website. The menu isn't available online yet. Erin Bode (yea!) will be the headliner for the grand opening tomorrow night. Apparently she will be doing two shows although no start times were listed.

I haven't weighed in on this before, but I'm pretty excited about the concept and I'm glad to see something like this going into this space.

innov8ion wrote:I had brunch there this past Sunday. The chef was quite personable, the food was presented well and tasted great. Should be a great place for live jazz with friends or significant others.

That's great to hear. I'm looking forward to giving this place a try ASAP.

(Now, please tell me there was no Kenny G in the background during your brunch!)

innov8ion · PostMar 20, 2009#152009-03-20T13:50+00:00

ThreeOneFour wrote:That's great to hear. I'm looking forward to giving this place a try ASAP.

(Now, please tell me there was no Kenny G in the background during your brunch!)

Hehe... I was too busy chowing down, listening and conversing to know.

debaliviere · PostJul 24, 2009#162009-07-24T18:25+00:00

St. Louis Jazz Café at 1500 St. Charles Street is closed.

Operations manager Tim Simms confirmed the closing Friday morning, and said he was shut down over sound issues. The venue is housed within the Terra Cotta Lofts, and neighbors lodged noise complaints.

Simms also said the spot was losing money because much of the clientele weren’t late-night dwellers.

Link

the central scrutinizer · PostJul 24, 2009#172009-07-24T18:58+00:00

Damn, I never got the chance to get over there.

threeonefour · PostJul 24, 2009#182009-07-24T18:59+00:00

The Central Scrutinizer wrote:Damn, I never got the chance to get over there.

Me neither. It's too bad this place didn't work out.

innov8ion · PostJul 24, 2009#192009-07-24T20:10+00:00

That's a shame. Had Sunday brunch there often. Chef Emma is/was great...

moorlander · PostJul 24, 2009#202009-07-24T23:54+00:00

it's a shame there an NO vacant retail bays in the neighborhood in which to relocate

/sarcasm

threeonefour · PostJul 25, 2009#212009-07-25T17:30+00:00

I noticed a short blurb in today's P-D print edition...according to P-D music columnist Kevin Johnson...St. Louis Jazz Cafe is looking for a new location.

/fingers crossed, hopefully they'll find another spot downtown