The Ron Brooks Trio

The Mayor of Downtown

by Photograph by J. Adrian Wylie

posted 2/1/2002

The Bird of Paradise has been serving jazz seven nights a week for more than fifteen years, and throughout that time a trio led by bassist Ron Brooks, who owns the club, has been a featured attraction. But the band antedates the club by many years: its roots go back to the Bob James Trio, which recorded in 1963 for Mercury under the tutelage of another rising

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