I’m filled with gratitude to everyone shown for taking time out of their crazy busy lives to share memories of the AQ and thoughts on wider topics surrounding music and specifically that genre known as jazz. I have learned so much over this past year!
I’m going to make a concerted effort to post more consistent updates including giving each of these interviewees their own page. Until then, here’s a tiny excerpt from our interview with Lucia Newell, talking about the St. Paul incarnation of the AQ and how it was a “listening room” (and how they enforced that!).
And here’s Patty Peterson talking about the original AQ on 26th & Nicollet in Minneapolis and how it transitioned from a working man’s bar to a jazz room.