Credit: Photo by Jay Nolan
Longtime Tampa band Acme Jazz Garage went on a short pause after drummer Pat Close passed away last year.

“Still hard to believe that Pat the Cat is no longer here on planet earth – we all held out hope that he’d beat cancer. But we keep on keeping on,” bassist Philip Booth told Creative Loafing. Tampa Bay.

Booth and guitarist Matt Swenson are the only founding members still in the lineup which is back this week with a “Soul Food Sunday” brunch gig that includes saxophonist Rick Runion, Jody Marsh on keys and drummer Louie Nagy.

There’s no cover to see Acme Jazz Garage play Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa on Sunday, April 28.

This article appears in Apr 25 – May 1, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...