Monday Jazz: Foliage 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. Featured performers on 29 December 2014 are members of Foliage: Nicholas Towbin-Jones (keys), Matt Schatz (sax), Brad Birge (bass), Slavek Bolubah (drums). Other jazz musicians may be invited to sit in. NOTE: Since Nicholas Towbin-Jones (one of Arkansas's finest young jazz pianists) is moving out of state in early 2015, this may be his last public jazz concert in Little Rock for quite some time.

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 adults-only club during normal restaurant hours. Each week's Monday Jazz specials and featured performers are announced on the Facebook page titled "Afterthought Bistro and Bar." ...

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Each week a diverse, multigenerational audience enjoys Monday Jazz (8-11 pm, $5 cover charge by venue) at The Afterthought. Featured performers on 29 December 2014 are members of Foliage: Nicholas Towbin-Jones (keys), Matt Schatz (sax), Brad Birge (bass), Slavek Bolubah (drums). Other jazz musicians may be invited to sit in. NOTE: Since Nicholas Towbin-Jones (one of Arkansas's finest young jazz pianists) is moving out of state in early 2015, this may be his last public jazz concert in Little Rock for quite some time.

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 adults-only club during normal restaurant hours. Each week's Monday Jazz specials and featured performers are announced on the Facebook page titled "Afterthought Bistro and Bar."

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 below its description under "Venues" on the Jazz Near You website.)

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