Mezzrow Jazz Club

Wilner and Borden opened the venue Mezzrow directly across the street. Inspired by the biography of “Mezz” Mezzrow’s, Really The Blues, Mezzrow was conceived as a piano/bass duo room, in the style of the great jazz club Bradley’s. Mezzrow took on a life of its own and becoming its own musical personality. Smalls and Mezzrow operate in tandem to present and live-stream 30 concerts a week. Mitch Borden retired in 2019 and now Spike Wilner is sole-proprietor. Wilner managed to navigated the clubs through the challenging COVID shutdown period. His long-term belief in live-streaming became Smalls’ life-line

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Wilner and Borden opened the venue Mezzrow directly across the street. Inspired by the biography of “Mezz” Mezzrow’s, Really The Blues, Mezzrow was conceived as a piano/bass duo room, in the style of the great jazz club Bradley’s. Mezzrow took on a life of its own and becoming its own musical personality. Smalls and Mezzrow operate in tandem to present and live-stream 30 concerts a week. Mitch Borden retired in 2019 and now Spike Wilner is sole-proprietor. Wilner managed to navigated the clubs through the challenging COVID shutdown period. His long-term belief in live-streaming became Smalls’ life-line. A sympathetic, world-wide audience kept the clubs afloat through online donations until finally the time came for businesses to operate again.

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