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Jazz in Dallas?

post #1 of 11
1/11/10 at 1:17am
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Will be in Dallas for NBA all star weekend. Any suggestions for live jazz ? Nite clubs for the over 40 folks to mix and mingle?
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post #2 of 11
1/11/10 at 1:29am
A friend loves this place in downtown FW - http://www.scatjazzlounge.com/

Don't think it's really a 40+ place, though.
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post #3 of 11
1/11/10 at 2:13am
For an upscale type place try Soho Food and Jazz in Addison (north). Good food. Shares a kitchen with the Addison Cafe. Good tapas menu.

Best overall music in a dive-bar atmosphere try the Balcony Club in Lakewood.

There's another place downtown (on Commerce, I think) that I've heard is good (in a dive-ish way) but I've never been there. Can't remember the name.

Sambuca downtown has music every night. Some nights it's jazz. Great food.

There is (or used to be) a good blues place in Deep Ellum but the name is escaping me at the moment. Maybe someone else can remember it.

I'll try to think of others.
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post #4 of 11
1/11/10 at 9:08pm
New Amsterdam Bar is good for live jazz on Monday nights.

Their website is a little odd, but it's definitely a relaxed place with good music and a great patio.
http://amsterdambar.blogspot.com/
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post #5 of 11
1/11/10 at 9:19pm
For the best jazz club in Dallas you really need to travel back in time to at least 1990 and visit Strictly Taboo. After that closed in the late '90's or so it's been hard to find good jazz in Dallas.

The name of the downtown place I was trying to think of in my earlier post is Pearl.

Also Terrili's on Lower Greenville has live music (often jazz from what I hear). But like some of the other places it's more about the food than the music.


Dallas might well be one of the worst large cities in the country to go hear live jazz.
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post #6 of 11
1/12/10 at 2:59am
it's more than the jazz, all the live music is pretty sucky these days. everything's house of blues these days, or drive to austin because they won't even stop by dallas.
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post #7 of 11
1/13/10 at 7:08am
If you lived in Dallas a long time, you'd head to Lower Greenville [Avenue], but not for the music. If you lived in Dallas a short time, you'd head to Upper Greenville. Forget the artsy-fartsy McKinney Avenue, Turtle Creek, Oaklawn area. Strictly for gay hookups. Same for Deep Ellum. Equally disgusting are Industrial or Samuell Blvd., each at the edge of dry areas. That's where you'd go to pimp your wife or daughter, or wife swap or daughter swap. Mexican buckets of blood can be found on East Grand, but the whole area around Fair Park [Cotton Bowl] is a ghetto. Great barbecue in that city, though.
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post #8 of 11
1/13/10 at 1:10pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. White View Post
If you lived in Dallas a long time, you'd head to Lower Greenville [Avenue], but not for the music.

If you lived in Dallas a short time, you'd head to Upper Greenville.

Forget the artsy-fartsy McKinney Avenue, Turtle Creek, Oaklawn area. Strictly for gay hookups. Same for Deep Ellum.

Equally disgusting are Industrial or Samuell Blvd., each at the edge of dry areas. That's where you'd go to pimp your wife or daughter, or wife swap or daughter swap.

Mexican buckets of blood can be found on East Grand, but the whole area around Fair Park [Cotton Bowl] is a ghetto.

Great barbecue in that city, though.

It's really changed since my days at Bishop College
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post #9 of 11
1/13/10 at 6:18pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. White;28460 the whole area around Fair Park [Cotton Bowl
is a ghetto.


Not true. There are some really cool bars in Exposition Park. There really aren't any good jazz bars in town, though.
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post #10 of 11
1/14/10 at 11:41am
Pete's Piano Bar in FTW
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post #11 of 11
1/14/10 at 11:01pm
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Originally Posted by munchausen View Post
Not true. There are some really cool bars in Exposition Park. There really aren't any good jazz bars in town, though.

I used to go to a combination laundomat and bar called Bar of Soap on Exposition. Mostly young people in sweatpants.
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