Tom Cox Trio at Monday Jazz at Afterthought Bistro and Bar

Every Monday (8-11 p.m.) a diverse, multigenerational, adult audience enjoys live jazz at The Afterthought, where the $5 cover charge is waived for those dining in the venue's adjoining restaurant. (A full menu is also available in the club itself.) Featured on 16 December 2013 is the distinguished Tox Cox Trio: Tom Cox (keyboard), Bill Huntington (upright bass), Jay Payette (drums). Matt Dickson (tenor sax) will play during the last set, and other accomplished jazz artists may be invited to sit in. Note: Before moving to Arkansas after Hurricane Katrina, for many years Huntington played with Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans. When the Tom Cox Trio played at The Afterthought on 11 November 2013, there were sit-ins by saxophonist Matt Dickson, bassist Joe Vick, and two members of the nationally acclaimed Marcus Roberts Trio (bassist Rodney Jordan, percussionist Jason Marsalis). In addition to nearly a dozen Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation/Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame members (including President James Thomson, Vice President Benita Porter Browning, and Secretary Alita Mantels) and other notable aficionados, the audience included renowned pianist Marcus Roberts and more than a dozen other accomplished jazz musicians (e.g., Julia Buckingham, John Bush, Clifford Hawkins, Walter Henderson, Kelley Hurt, Gerald Johnson, Barry McVinney, Chris Parker, Tom Richeson, Ryk St. Vincent). ...

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Every Monday (8-11 p.m.) a diverse, multigenerational, adult audience enjoys live jazz at The Afterthought, where the $5 cover charge is waived for those dining in the venue's adjoining restaurant. (A full menu is also available in the club itself.) Featured on 16 December 2013 is the distinguished Tox Cox Trio: Tom Cox (keyboard), Bill Huntington (upright bass), Jay Payette (drums). Matt Dickson (tenor sax) will play during the last set, and other accomplished jazz artists may be invited to sit in. Note: Before moving to Arkansas after Hurricane Katrina, for many years Huntington played with Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans. When the Tom Cox Trio played at The Afterthought on 11 November 2013, there were sit-ins by saxophonist Matt Dickson, bassist Joe Vick, and two members of the nationally acclaimed Marcus Roberts Trio (bassist Rodney Jordan, percussionist Jason Marsalis). In addition to nearly a dozen Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation/Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame members (including President James Thomson, Vice President Benita Porter Browning, and Secretary Alita Mantels) and other notable aficionados, the audience included renowned pianist Marcus Roberts and more than a dozen other accomplished jazz musicians (e.g., Julia Buckingham, John Bush, Clifford Hawkins, Walter Henderson, Kelley Hurt, Gerald Johnson, Barry McVinney, Chris Parker, Tom Richeson, Ryk St. Vincent).

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 club and its adjoining restaurant occupy a building used as the town hall for Pulaski Heights before its 1916 annexation by Little Rock.

PHOTOS AND MORE DETAILS RELATED TO THIS AS WELL AS OTHER JAZZ EVENTS/VENUES/ARTISTS IN ARKANSAS ARE POSTED TO THE ARKANSAS JAZZ HERITAGE FOUNDATION'S FACEBOOK PAGE.

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