02/25/2021 20:08
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 02/25/2021 20:08
Notorious bar
was for two decades an emblem of Buenos Aires for lovers of jazz and Brazilian music.
Artists such as Walter Malosetti, Jorge Anders and Naná Vasconcelos performed at the venue, located on Avenida Callao at 900.
The pandemic and the high costs of the place were too heavy a burden and this Thursday it was confirmed that it
will definitively close its doors
after 23 years.
"We
banked the place as much as possible.
Between November and January we were open with shows in the garden but it is a very expensive venue and it is
not enough to hold one concert per day, no matter how successful it is,
" said Victor Ponieman, owner of the Random Records record company and current owner of the place located a few meters from the traditional corner of Santa Fe and Callao, in the same exclusive area of the extinct "Classic and Modern".
The site that began in 1998 as a specialized record store with an innovative system of touch screens on tables to listen to music while having a coffee, was expanded into a bar and iconic redoubt within the circuit of the City of Buenos Aires of jazz concerts,
among other rhythms such as bossa nova and tango, by local and international musicians.
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"Here all possible Argentines and many foreigners played, among them
Naná Vasconcelos, Paulinho Moska, Nando Reis, Moreno Veloso with Caetano as audience
, Hermeto Pascoal, the daughter of Vinicius de Moraes, his granddaughter, our strength as a record company are Brazilian artists. Ponieman recalled.
"Anyway," he added, "for me the most important thing beyond the musicians who played, are those who said goodbye there: Jorge Lopez Ruiz, Jorge Anders, Walter Malosetti, who had their place here."
On its Instagram profile, the bar also published a last letter in the form of farewell.
There they remembered moments in the more than two decades that the site was open and thanked the musicians who passed by.
"They were almost 23 years of stories, love, laughter, dancing between tables and magic," says part of the text.
"Above all, almost 23 years of learning and experiences.
We say goodbye remembering all those glories of jazz and music who made Notorious their home
and who left this space impregnated with their art."
And he continued: "The club closes but Notorious will continue as a project,
producing shows in other spaces and accompanying them daily from the networks with stories, recommendations and suggestions ".
The publication, which added thousands of "likes" and hundreds of comments with memories and messages tinged with sadness, closed: "I hope this goodbye is a see you later
.
May we meet again in a warm hug and that the music follows us accompanying forever ".
With information from Télam
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