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Jazz Club is a small venue that holds regular concerts of everything from jazz, blues and rock to reggae and funk. It’s not a huge space, but with a clever mezzanine floor added during the recent renovations, it can seat around 200 people. Apart from a short break during the summer, there’s a concert every Thursday night, and on some other nights according to no apparent pattern. The Festival of Independent Music is held here in early June and the club plays music video or internet jazz radio anytime there’s no live performance going on. The cover charge for most concerts seems to be around the 100Kc mark.
The club is housed in a long open hall with an arched ceiling. The walls are covered with murals and the lights are shaded with pictures of famous musicians. The furniture is all wooden; tables and chairs in the centre and a long bench along one wall. If you’re sitting at one of the tables closest to the stage you might find yourself surrounded by dancers by the end of a concert night. The bar is under the mezzanine floor at the opposite end to the stage, but there’s always table service and the wait staff eventually find their way through even the thickest crowds.
If you’re seeing a concert there, you’ll be given a numbered slip of paper as you pay for, or present, your entry ticket at the door. It’s very important not to lose the slip. Your drinks will be added to it by the waiters as the evening progresses and the security staff will not allow you to leave if you cannot present it with the imprint of the club’s PAID stamp. It’s clearly explained at the bottom of the slip (but only in Czech) that if you lose it, they will calculate your drinks bill at 2000Kc, which is approximately enough for one main meal and 85 large glasses of beer.
During the day, the Jazz Club is also a quite reasonable restaurant. It has a fairly standard menu; lots of chicken and pork dishes, half-a-dozen vegetarian meals and about ten different ways of cooking the side-dish potatoes. Last time I was there, I had the chicken pieces in a herb sauce for 78Kc, the side order of potatoes added 22Kc and my mineral water was another 22Kc. The coffee is well made and there’s an extensive drinks list, as the owners of the Jazz Club also have a small wine store.
Tibet Jazz Club is open from Monday to Friday from 10am to midnight and on Saturday from 11am to midnight. The Kitchen closes at 10pm, and the club is closed every Sunday.
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