4200 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Owners Elliot Epstein and Ben Hiatt. Previous location was in Alexandria, VA. The DC location struggled with neighborhood resistance to a new nightclub, resulting in a legal dispute over the denial of a liquor license. As a result, it was mostly closed for more than a year, only open for brunch.
On March 22, 1990, the Cleveland Park-Woodley Park Advisory Neighborhood Commission voted to support the club’s application for a liquor license “on condition that the restaurant agrees to limit the number of shows and the hours of operation and provides free parking for its customers.” The American University Park-Friendship Heights ANC voted similarly, “on the conditions that it close at 11:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:30 a.m. Saturday; provide free parking for its customers; offer no happy hours featuring half-priced drinks, and limit the numbers of shows to one on Sunday through Thursday and two each on Friday and Saturday.”
Opened 1988; re-opened November 15, 1990; closed June 2?, 1991. Anita O’Day’s engagement in the first week of June did not take place.
Chicago room featured acoustic blues on Thursdays.
Artists
1988Mark Murphy
Buddy DeFranco and Terry Gibbs
Mel Lewis
Shirley Horn
Jamie Broumas
Dakota Staton
Arthur Prysock
Dave Frishberg
Jamie Broumas
David ‘Fathead’ Newman
Jamie Broumas
Paul Bollenback
Saffire
Ronnie Wells
Brooks Tegler
Jamie Broumas
John Eaton
Judy Roberts
Bucky Pizzarelli
Susannah McCorkle
Ruby Braff
Keter Betts
Urbie Green
Jay Leonhart & Roger Kellaway
Sue Raney
Lew Tabackin
Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison
Laurel Masse
Brooks Tegler
James Morrison
Harper Brothers
Buddy De Franco
Judy Carmichael
Michele Hendricks
James Moody
Red Rodney
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