The Willow Jazz Club welcomed future jazz superstars like John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Fred Hersch and Joe Lovano and WERS produced live broadcasts. But on March 27, 1997, the club was abruptly shuttered after a drug raid.
Left to right: A flyer featuring the James Williams Trio ; a handmade flyer featuring Bill Pierce ; and a flyer featuring the Steve Grossman Quartet .showed up for another night of music-making at the Willow Jazz Club in Somerville’s Ball Square. But the building was padlocked. Waitresses were on the sidewalk crying. The club wasn’t closed because the avant garde improvisers who played there sometimes drew minuscule audiences.
Saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi realized the Willow was a little different from the rarified concert halls he played with Dave Brubeck when he saw on the news that a disgruntled patron had fired gunshots and taken hostages in the club. Bergonzi uses the jazz ballad “Two Different Worlds” to describe the Willow, which was divided into two rooms by swinging doors. “On one side, you had a jazz club where we were all just doing our thing.
“There was no management there to eyeball you or worry about how many people showed up. They just did not give a f---," says Mat Maneri, who played viola and violin with his own groups and with his father, microtonal pioneer Joe Maneri, at the Willow. “They were pretty discreet about the drug dealing — we never saw it. If you’re running a cocaine ring, what better way to not draw attention than to have these outside-the-mainstream music acts?”to play the Willow on a weekly basis in 1980.
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