An iconic area within the coronary heart of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood will quickly be house to a jazz and dinner membership run by the thoughts behind San Antonio’s Jazz, TX.
Doc Watkins based Jazz, TX in 2016, and it immediately turned a must-stop vacation spot for the fashionable masters of jazz, internet hosting the likes of Kenny Garrett, Invoice Charlap, and John Pizzarelli. The still-unnamed Houston location will likely be his first growth exterior the Alamo Metropolis.
Watkins brings critical jazz bonafides to the challenge. He has performed Carnegie Corridor along with his personal jazz trio and performs over 100 reveals yearly along with his administration of Jazz, TX.
Jazz, TX attracts a few of the style’s prime performers.
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“I’m thrilled to deliver this membership to life in Houston, particularly in a venue as iconic because the Tower Theatre,” Watkins mentioned in an announcement. “We sit up for creating an area the place reside music, nice meals, and Houston’s vibrant tradition come collectively.”
The Tower Theatre is likely one of the final items of the encompassing neighborhood’s structure that is nonetheless standing. Initially a movie show, it additionally spent a while as a disco referred to as Clubland. Its massive dimension made it good to host touring acts in addition to dance nights. Each John Lennon and the Beastie Boys performed there.
After that, it was house to Hollywood Video, a Montrose location of the film rental chain that closed in 2009. Extra lately, it housed each El Actual Tex-Mex Cafe and a short-lived outpost of New Orleans-based seafood restaurant Acme Oyster Co.
Houston-based Radom Capital revealed plans to revitalize the property earlier this yr. Tenants like Copy.com and Adam & Eve have been phased out for a extra upscale assortment of eateries, boutiques, and health facilities. One among these will likely be Nando’s Peri-Peri, the South Africa-based grilled hen restaurant. The Tower Theatre’s distinctive artwork deco marquee will likely be preserved as a part of the renovations.
The property, now often known as 1111 Westheimer, joins Radom Capital’s different tasks, which embrace the Montrose Collective and M-Ok-T, a mixed-use improvement within the Heights.
