Monday Jazz: Brandon Dorris Quintet at Afterthought Bistro and Bar

Each week a diverse, multigenerational audience enjoys Monday Jazz (8-11 pm, $5 cover) at The Afterthought. Featured on 17 March 2014 will be the Brandon Dorris Quintet: Brandon Dorris (sax), Guido Ritchie (trumpet), Tom Cox (piano), Bill Huntington (upright bass), Jay Payette (drums). Other accomplished jazz musicians may be invited to sit in. Copies of "Red" (recently released by pianist Tom Cox and bassist Bill Huntington) may be available for purchase; the 10-track CD includes 4 original compositions by Cox and a jazzy arrangement of the traditional Irish ballad "Danny Boy."

The club's cover charge is waived for those dining in the adjoining restaurant, but a full menu (shown at www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com) is available in the club during normal restaurant hours. During cold weather, the club's fireplace adds warmth to the intimate venue, which was designed specifically for jazz. ...

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Each week a diverse, multigenerational audience enjoys Monday Jazz (8-11 pm, $5 cover) at The Afterthought. Featured on 17 March 2014 will be the Brandon Dorris Quintet: Brandon Dorris (sax), Guido Ritchie (trumpet), Tom Cox (piano), Bill Huntington (upright bass), Jay Payette (drums). Other accomplished jazz musicians may be invited to sit in. Copies of "Red" (recently released by pianist Tom Cox and bassist Bill Huntington) may be available for purchase; the 10-track CD includes 4 original compositions by Cox and a jazzy arrangement of the traditional Irish ballad "Danny Boy."

The club's cover charge is waived for those dining in the adjoining restaurant, but a full menu (shown at www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com) is available in the club during normal restaurant hours. During cold weather, the club's fireplace adds warmth to the intimate venue, which was designed specifically for jazz.

The Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation/Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame holds its weekly meet-and-greet during Monday Jazz at The Afterthought because it is the only Little Rock venue which has presented live jazz continuously (at least once a week) since the 1970s. (That distinction earned the iconic club a place on the map in the first print edition of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music, published in September 2013 by the Central Arkansas Library System's Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.) Located in the historic Hillcrest neighborhood and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Afterthought and its adjoining restaurant occupy a building which served as the town hall for Pulaski Heights before its 1916 annexation by Little Rock.

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