Smoke Jazz Club is scheduled to fully reopen for the first time in more than two years tonight, featuring saxophonist George Coleman. The George Coleman Quartet played at Smoke when it opened in 1999 and was the first to perform at the club after 9/11.
— have been forced to shutter. When Smoke went dark for the bulk of 2021, it looked like it would become yet another piece of the city lost to the pandemic.
"We had a soundcheck the other day without an audience here, just to test the system," said Stache. "And when the band started playing, I started bawling because it was so emotional to hear the music again, I had to step out for a moment."While the main room — now referred to as “the listening room” — retains the same intimate ambiance as before, moving the bar next door into the lounge has opened up a huge amount of space.
These are the biggest changes to happen to the club since Stache, who was born and raised in the former West Berlin, first opened it in 1999. Prior to that, it was Augie’s Jazz Bar, which opened in the late '60s and became a mainstay of the neighborhood. He got a job there as a dishwasher a few years later, and eventually became a bartender. After Augie'sin 1998, Stache and his business partner at the time, Frank Christopher, seized the chance to take over the lease and continue its legacy with a new club. He wasn't legally allowed to keep the name Augie's, but he came up with a new name that still honored its eponymous former proprietor, Augusto “Gus” Cuartas.
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