Ibex Club

5832 Georgia Avenue, NW

Opened September 17, 1981. Closed January 1982?

Capacity 225. Booking manager Richard Spring.

Wednesday/Thursday through Saturday/Sunday schedule.

On January 18, 1982, WETA-TV broadcast Jazz from the Ibex featuring Big Nick Nicholas and Andrew White. By the time it aired, the club had turned into a discotheque.

Subsequently (1983?) became a three-level complex that featured jazz at the Ibex Lounge on the first floor.

Artists

• Pharoah Sanders (1981)
• Johnny Griffin (1981)
• Woody Shaw (1981)
• Roy Haynes (1981)
• Nat Adderley (1981)
• Blackbyrds (apparently replacing Pieces of a Dream) (1981)
• Gary Bartz (1981)
• Lou Donaldson (1981)
• Hank Crawford (1981)
• James Moody (1981)
• Sandra Phillips (1981)
• Jimmie Walker (1981)
• The Merricks (1981)
• D.C. Jazz Christmas: Keter Betts, Tommy Cecil, Ephraim Woolfolk, Hugh Walker, Wade Beach, Marc Copland, Mickey Fields, Buck Hill, Keith Holmes, Shirley Fields, Ronnie Wells, Ron Elliston Trio (1981)
• Jon Hendricks (1981)
• Abbey Lincoln (1981)

Bibliography