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Andrew C. Eggers '99, a musician with a great deal of experience playing on campus and in Cambridge, says that the Dunster Cafe is "the only thing that's open as in you can bring your horn and play." Eggers adds, however, that other, more organized oportunities do exist for student musicians, including special dinners in dining halls, or at House formals...
According to Chen the Dunster Cafe tradition originated three or four years ago when a bunch of Dunster residents who liked to play jazz together made it into something of a House institution. Last winter, after a period of Cafe inactivity, Chen took over from Daniel A. Horwitz '98, the previous organizer...
...When I got here as a sophomore they had the Cafe nights really regularly and it was the thing that made me really love Dunster; to me it distinguished the House from the others," Chen says. "When I saw [Horwitz] struggling with it, I thought Cafe night was such a cool thing that I had to keep it going...
...Dunster Cafe is great because there are few, if any, places for jazz musicians who aren't in the Harvard Jazz Band to get a chance to play," says Cousin, who plays bass in the 'house band'. "The jam gives people an outlet to practice their playing and hopefully improve, or at least take a nice break from studying...
Cousin says there are no comparable weekly outlets for jazz musicians to go and jam, although some Houses organize similar events for special occasions such as Arts First. Woodward has played at Loker, but prefers the Cafe. "It's homey," he says. "People from Dunster wander through in their slippers and the walls are lined with couches...