Chalk another one up to "gentrification" : on my way home last night, I was lured into the diminutive Puppet’s Jazz Bar, on what turned out to be their last night in their current location in Park Slope. For those non-Slopers: Puppet’s has been around for a couple of years, and is the only neighborhood venue featuring quality jazz on a nightly basis.
Last night turned out to be an all-night benefit blowout, but by the time I showed up around 11, they were letting people in for free. (They had been charging $10 earlier.) I hung in long enough to catch the Ray Parker Trio, the JD Allen Trio, and Bill Ware’s Pups Vibes, featuring proprietor Jaime Aff on drums. (You can watch a video of Bill Ware et. al. on Puppet’s website.)
Fortunately, Aff already has plans to reopen in mid-September in a new space at further down 5th Ave, between 11th and 12th Streets. Which, happily, is right down the street from my house, so I’m sure I’ll turn into something of a regular.
What?!? A jazzbar on 5th Ave. with a cover and a drink minimum – sounds like fun for the gentry to me. Oh, maybe when you said “chalk one up to gentrification” you meant that Puppets is helping to gentrify 5th Ave. south of 9th Street? That’s the trend they’re part of…
What?!? A jazzbar on 5th Ave. with a cover and a drink minimum – sounds like fun for the gentry to me. Oh, maybe when you said “chalk one up to gentrification” you meant that Puppets is helping to gentrify 5th Ave. south of 9th Street? That’s the trend they’re part of…
What?!? A jazzbar on 5th Ave. with a cover and a drink minimum – sounds like fun for the gentry to me. Oh, maybe when you said “chalk one up to gentrification” you meant that Puppets is helping to gentrify 5th Ave. south of 9th Street? That’s the trend they’re part of…
What?!? A jazzbar on 5th Ave. with a cover and a drink minimum – sounds like fun for the gentry to me. Oh, maybe when you said “chalk one up to gentrification” you meant that Puppets is helping to gentrify 5th Ave. south of 9th Street? That’s the trend they’re part of…
What?!? A jazzbar on 5th Ave. with a cover and a drink minimum – sounds like fun for the gentry to me. Oh, maybe when you said “chalk one up to gentrification” you meant that Puppets is helping to gentrify 5th Ave. south of 9th Street? That’s the trend they’re part of…
What?!? A jazzbar on 5th Ave. with a cover and a drink minimum – sounds like fun for the gentry to me. Oh, maybe when you said “chalk one up to gentrification” you meant that Puppets is helping to gentrify 5th Ave. south of 9th Street? That’s the trend they’re part of…