Block 79 of Jitu Weusi Weeksville Oral History (Q25921)

Jitu Weusi: The East stopped having music around ’79 or ’80. They had a few shows up at the Armory during the early ‘80s. Reaganomics began to have its full effect by ’84-’85 and a lot of businesses were affected. So by the mid-late ‘80s jazz was on a real downturn, almost all of the old stuff was wiped out in one way or another: all the old clubs, all the old venues, it was just a bad downtur...