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Ron Brooks at the Ravens Club

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 1/15/2012

No one has yet written a comprehensive history of jazz in Ann Arbor, but when someone does, a major chapter will have to be dedicated to the Ron Brooks Trio. The bassist leader has for decades played a central role in the music scene of the city, as a performer and as the proprietor of its longest-lived jazz club, the Bird of Paradise, which thrived for almost

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