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The Jazz Cellar
Closed until Friday
5:00 pm - 10:30 pm
The Jazz Cellar
Perth's best kept secretThe Jazz Cellar is a unique venue, which is open only one day each week, featuring traditional jazz. In keeping with the vintage music theme, the venue is decorated with old enamel advertising signs, vintage instruments hang from the ceiling, the tables are made from old sewing machine bases and the chairs were all obtained at antique auctions. Enter through the red phone box, down the stairs into the cellar. The capacity is only 100 and usually all tickets are sold very early. The entry fee is $25 and everything is BYO, both food and drinks. Tea, coffee and cold water are available free. The door is open from about 5pm every Friday and the band plays from 7.30 to 10.30. The audience ranges in age from 20 to over 80 and there is no particular dress code.
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- Traditional Jazz
It has been about 5 years since we visited the Jazz Cellar at Mt Hawthorn and our experience on Friday night has turned fond memories into a fun experience. The music is great and the band is as hot as ever and it was great to see the familiar faces behind the microphones pumping out great trad jazz standards for 3 hours. What has changed noticeably and for the better is the service and the way that the Cellar is organised and run by the young gentleman behind the bar. He arrived early and let us all in out of the rain which was greatly appreciated and sold tickets and allocated seats and tables professionally to ensure that everyone got a seat. Later he made everyone laugh with his amusing "House Rules" which informed all of the patrons where everything was located and how the evening would run smoothly, even how to order a pizza and have it delivered to your table. It made for such a smooth-running and very enjoyable evening at one of our ...read more
I agree with PerthJazzLover. I have been to the Cellar on a number of occasions and on Friday night I was with a group of friends who sat next to a large group of people who did nothing but complain and give the man who runs the place a hard time while all he tried to do was make sure that everyone was seated and happy.
The more he tried to help this group the more they attacked him but he persisted and eventually sorted everything out and went out of his way to make sure that everyone was happy.
The Cellar is a unique place with a relaxed and casual atmosphere where everyone is happy and the music is great. If you and your group can't wait 5 minutes for someone to fine-tune the seating arrangements for 100 people in a small venue then it is probably not for you.
Thanks for another great night - we will be back.
We had called in twice and confirmed that we had to pick up tickets at the door at 5pm. We fought through traffic and arrived at 5pm only to be told by an extremely rude management staff that they were full, 'it was a cue thing' and had opened the doors earlier. When asked why they hadn't Informed us to come earlier or about the so called 'cue thing' they repeated the 'cue rule' rudely and spoke behind our back as we walked away. Lost a lot of business from us today. Was rude to a friend last time we went there also. Plenty of good jazz in perth, no need to waste your time or money in this place.
People who enquire about tickets for The Jazz Cellar are always told that we do not sell tickets in advance and that the can be bought from 5pm each Friday. We make no guarantees of being able to buy tickets as they are sold on a first come first served basis. We have a strict limit on our capacity by the health department of 100 people. The complainer mentioned "the cue thing". Our staff member would have been referring to the queue of people who were waiting to buy tickets before 5pm and before the complainer arrived. On this particular Friday it was pouring with rain, so the door was opened 10 minutes early as there was a long queue of people getting soaked. The people who were already there bought all 100 tickets. It is unfortunate that there were no tickets left when the complainer arrived. We have absolute faith in our staff.
I was the staff member to whom you spoke and what I tried to explain on a number occaisions albeit unsuccessfully was that purchasing tickets is not so much a matter of what time the doors open but what time you need to arrive before the door opens so that you can be sure that you get tickets when the door does open. This is my standard explanation to everyone who comes along who finds themselves in the unfortunate position of missing out on tickets; it is so that people aren't disappointed the next time. No-one else has ever considered this explanation rude in the past - quite the contrary people appreciate knowing what they have to do in the future. This view was confirmed by the young lady sitting on the bench who commented to me as you left that I had tried my best to explain to you how best to purchase a ticket. On Friday night we had 4 parties of 16 which caused the place to fill very quickly and people who had been queuing since 4.20 also ...read more
The Jazz Cellar is a great venue. Terrific atmosphere with all the old signs and furniture and a great band. I went for the first time last week with a group of friends and danced all evening. I was never a jazz fan but this music is completely different to what I thought was jazz. Sophie Lawson
"this music is completely different to what I thought was jazz."
lol... what do you think Jazz is? It's not a style, it's an entire genre of music with an almost infinite range of styles.
