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Last Wednesday, like almost every Wednesday for the past decade, The Fringe arrived at The Willow Jazz Club in Somerville around 9:30 to set up. Garzone and Gullotti walk in first, snapping on the lights, greeting the waitress, hauling in their equipment...
Garzone puts down his sax case and goes through a door to the other half of The Willow--the bar. When he opens the door, the TV can be heard on top of some stilted conversation. There's only one person at the bar when Garzone buys a scratch ticket from a machine. "The jazz scene around here is very dead," he says. "The town and the people gave up on it. When the clubs starting closing, a lot of the musicians gave up and moved...
...music: Jamal was playingwith a drummer he had met a week and a halfearlier. But the same patrons who shell out bigbucks year after year to hear the masters playwill not be found in the smaller clubs. InBoston's increasingly upscale environment, thediminishing number of joints like The Willow standout because of their lack of pretense. Indeed, TheWillow's wall-to-wall, industrial strength,redish-brown carpeting (which is actually on thewell), small linoleum tables and pastiche of 70'sjazz-album covers taped up near the ceiling forgea distinct sense of place hard to find in theRegattabar, with its predictable...
...Willow Jazz Club-694 Broadway St., Bill Square, Somerville; 623-9874. The one drawback to The Willow is that it is not easily accessible by public transportation. To get there, take the Red Line to Davis Square, go down College St. to the rotary at Broadway, and follow Broadway into Ball Square...
...Willow is both a club and a bar, the tacky lighting and carpeted walls make it a consistent favorite. The Fringe play here every Wednesday night. Other jazz locals, and some nationals, round out the scene. Covers range, but are usually between...