Monday Jazz: Dave Rogers Quartet at Afterthought Bistro and Bar

Each week a diverse, multigenerational audience enjoys Monday Jazz (8-11 pm, $5 cover charge by venue) at The Afterthought. Performing on 15 December 2014 is a quartet led by percussionist Dave Rogers (2014 Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame inductee) and including bassist Joe Vick (2014 Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame inductee), along with guitarist Les Pack (graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, professor/conductor for the University of Arkansas at Monticello's Jazz Studies program) and baritone saxophonist Chris Sims. Other accomplished jazz musicians may be invited to sit in.
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Each week a diverse, multigenerational audience enjoys Monday Jazz (8-11 pm, $5 cover charge by venue) at The Afterthought. Performing on 15 December 2014 is a quartet led by percussionist Dave Rogers (2014 Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame inductee) and including bassist Joe Vick (2014 Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame inductee), along with guitarist Les Pack (graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, professor/conductor for the University of Arkansas at Monticello's Jazz Studies program) and baritone saxophonist Chris Sims. Other accomplished jazz musicians may be invited to sit in.

The $5 cover charge is usually waived for those dining in the adjoining restaurant, but a full menu (shown at www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com) is also available in the club during normal restaurant hours. (Monday Jazz specials are announced on the Facebook page titled "Afterthought Bistro and Bar.") During cold weather, The Afterthought's double-sided fireplace adds warmth to the intimate venue designed specifically for jazz.

SPECIAL NOTE: This has been designated an "AJHF MEET-AND-GREET" for members of the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation/Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame. Several board members (including President James Thomson) will be present; AJHF members and other jazz aficionados can pick up/submit AJHF materials (including membership applications) from/to AJHF Secretary Alita Mantels. FYI: The Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation (which sponsors and maintains the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame) holds each of its board meetings (as well as an occasional meet-and-greet) before/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. (Photos are provided in the "Comments" section below its description under "Venues" on the Jazz Near You website.)

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