Whole Foods Jazz

Jazz is like good food—it fills my soul. The better the ingredients, the more tasty it is and the better I feel. While at Whole Foods grocery store in Sugar House, as I sampled pumpkin pie, I heard some real, quality Jazz. It felt live. I turned the corner and—voila—three men playing All the Things You Are.

• Derek Homna on keyboards
• Nate O’ Bryant on upright bass
• Dave Chisholm on trumpet

They are fantastic.

I occured to me that I’ve often heard live Jazz at Whole Foods. It seems an uncommon place to hear good Jazz.  Jazz is, at some level, as nourishing as organic food: pure, rudimentary, and necessary. Live Jazz is such a pleasure to listen to and having it at the grocery store for every age and temperament makes it accessible to larger audiences. It also strips away its elitism.

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Five clubs in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, that should have LIve Jazz Music. Four of them do. One doesn’t.

The Bayou

645 S State St

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Phone: (801) 961-8400

Cabana Club

31 E 400 S

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Phone: (801) 355-9538

Circle Lounge

328 S State St

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Phone: (801) 531-5400

Monk’s House of Jazz

no more Jazz at Monk’s: it’s Hip-Hop and Reggae to Indie Rock and Punk

19 E 200 S

Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1980

Phone: (801) 350-0950

Zanzibar

679 South 200 West

Salt Lake City, UT 84101-2706

Phone: (801) 746-0590