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With the dust finally settling on Hennepin Avenue\u2019s reconstruction, musicians soon will settle into a new home for jazz in an old building along Uptown\u2019s main thoroughfare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Brownstone Jazz Club has been announced as an incoming tenant of a historic one-story brownstone building at 2756 Hennepin Av. in Minneapolis, next door to Isles Bun & Coffee. That stretch of Hennepin just recently opened after a year-plus of reconstruction. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The intimate music club is on track to open in December or in early 2026. It will be run by a veteran R&B singer who lives nearby and said he \u201cwanted to give musicians somewhere in this area to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI believe in the revitalization of Uptown and think this place can play a big role,\u201d said Johnnie Brown, a singer originally from Mississippi who\u2019s been active in the Twin Cities music scene for about 15 years. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Known for staging tributes to R&B greats like Barry White and Luther Vandross at venues including Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Crooners and the Dakota, Brown was getting coffee at Isles Bun & Coffee earlier this year when he mentioned to a friend that the vacant space next door \u201cwould make a really nice club.\u201d The friend knew the landlord, and the seed was planted. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe idea just took off from there,\u201d marveled Brown, who admitted, \u201cOwning a club was never really a dream of mine, but now it\u2019s become my vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Johnnie Brown, who grew up in a musical family in Mississippi, will combine his 15-plus years of experience singing around the Twin Cities as the proprietor of Brownstone Jazz Club in Minneapolis. (Provided)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Brown\u2019s longtime business manager, Hernitta Moore, also will serve as Brownstone Jazz\u2019s operational manager. She said high-end cocktails and \u201cfinger food\u201d will be on the menu alongside jazz and R&B music five nights a week, plus a Sunday gospel brunch. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be open to whatever else the community wants there,\u201d Moore added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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