{"id":30072,"date":"2016-02-17T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=30072"},"modified":"2016-02-17T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:15:49","slug":"the-outro-plays-for-jazz-record-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/the-outro-plays-for-jazz-record-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"The outro plays for Jazz Record Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Josef Siebert<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jazz Record Mart was full of activity on Tuesday, the day after the iconic Chicago record store closed its doors forever. With its bright neon window sign and overhead lights inside the store blazing at 27 E. Illinois St., it was easy to imagine JRM was still in business. Until, that is, you noticed that the people milling about\u00a0weren\u2019t paying for the CDs, tapes and vinyl they plucked from the racks. And they were taking EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n

A downtown gathering place for jazz and blues aficionados since 1963, the Mart later became a mecca for devotees and artists. Musicians, fans and future label and club owners worked the counter and haunted the aisles, often crashing on owner Bob Koester\u2019s couch. Koester also runs Delmark Records, billed as “the oldest independent American jazz and blues label”, which he founded in 1953. He was a driving force in the blues revival of the 1960s and would take groups to\u00a0blues clubs on Chicago’s South and West sides before the blues\u00a0became popular on the North Side. The store\u2019s website includes an extensive history drawn from a Chicago Tribune article published on May 16, 1993.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was more than a record store\u2014it was a valuable part of the culture,\u201d said Lauren Deutsch, executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. \u201cIt was this sort of incubator for many aspects of the jazz scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Store Manager Kent Richmond, 62, said the store would likely be empty by the weekend. \u201cEveryone\u2019s disappointed it\u2019s closing,\u201d he said. \u201cThis has been great the last week-and-a-half. We\u2019re just wondering where all these people have been, because lack of business has forced our hand, [along with]\u00a0the raising rents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The building that houses JRM was sold two years ago, and Richmond said the rent has been increasing incrementally ever since the new landlord took over. That, he said, was the final straw.<\/p>\n

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A store closing sign hangs in the window the day after Jazz Record Mart was sold. (Josef Siebert\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Deutsch, the store\u2019s employees were careful stewards of the music and very careful about how it was passed on. They were like personal advisors, and the customers would often lead one another other down avenues of exploration they wouldn\u2019t get to on their own. Despite the rise of the Internet, Deutsch maintains that people still need to create places where they can gather to discuss music.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a real value in person-to-person engagement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The deal for \u201cThe World’s Largest Jazz and Blues Record Store\u201d and its contents was completed Monday morning. Wolfgang\u2019s Vault, based in Nevada, which sells and archives music memorabilia and live recordings, purchased the business, the stock and the contents of the store. On Tuesday, employees of JRM and Koester\u2019s Delmark Records were packing everything up for shipment to Nevada.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were the last store in town that specialized in new product,\u201d Richmond said. \u201cEveryone else sells used. This is a major cultural loss for the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: The lights are still on at the Jazz Record Mart, but only while employees pack up the remaining inventory. (Josef Siebert\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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