Tonight's show includes two guests from Chicago, guitarist Bill Witz and drummer Rusty Jones. Witz also will sit in Saturday. While nostalgic about the club, which opened in May 1994 and has offered live music up to five nights a week as well as a cigar night on Mondays, the Piccards have not had time to get too sentimental about saying goodbye. That step will take them downtown. Starting Jan. 7, the Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Hotel will host the Eddie Piccard Group on Friday and Saturday nights at the hotel's rooftop restaurant and bar, Top of the Five.
Music is only part of the show.
Dallis, who knows ClubJazz patrons by name, will serve as hostess. The Crowne Plaza's general manager, Jack Odom, approached the Piccards about setting up shop at the hotel on weekends after he learned they would lose their club to construction. Odom became a fan of the Piccards' club after he transferred here from Florida 15 months ago. That is just a perfect, perfect room. Odom has offered jobs to ClubJazz staff who are interested, and he says the arrangement will leave room for guest artists as well.