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A month after the grand opening that wasn’t, Porter’s Jazz Cafe now says it really is ready to host patrons starting today. The split-level space on Main Street, with a cafe on the street level and a jazz club in the basement, takes up 9,000 square feet in the former Gus Blass Building, currently under renovation for mixed uses.

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Porter’s House Band, which includes jazz pianist Chris Parker and jazz guitarist Michael Bartlett, will kick things off tonight. No national acts have been booked yet, a staffer who answered the phone at the restaurant told me yesterday.

From a release on the club:

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Admission to the Jazz Café, housed in the basement, is $10 Sunday-Thursday after 8 pm and $15 Friday-Saturday after 8 pm. Lunch and dinner served daily in the upstairs dining room. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; dinner, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The jazz café will offer a lighter fare until closing. Sunday Brunch offered from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dinner is served from 4 p.m. until closing.

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