Dara Tucker at Rudy's Jazz Room, July 2021
As pandemic lockdown restrictions eased, Rudy’s Jazz Room has once again stepped up its game and returned to its position as the premier night spot for fans of improvisational music, with up to six nights a week of top concerts and frequently multiple shows a night on Fridays and Saturdays. Rudy’s alternates its bills between prominent nationally touring jazz artists and a stable of popular area performers. If you’ve ever been to any major jazz club in New York, Boston, Detroit or Los Angeles, you’ll immediately recognize Rudy’s virtues: intimacy, a great listening atmosphere, even a piano that’s in tune — surprisingly, not always the case in every jazz-oriented venue. Over the course of a year you’ll hear every type of jazz available from hard bop to contemporary experimental, and it’s a chance to hear the finest players from both across the Midsouth and around the nation at reasonable prices.
