Acme Jazz Garage returns to Seminole Heights for free Sunday concert

The lineup includes saxophonist Rick Runion, Jody Marsh on keys and drummer Louie Nagy.

By Ray Roa on Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 1:24 am

Photo by Jay Nolan

Matt Swenson of Acme Jazz Garage, which plays Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe in Tampa, Florida on April 28, 2024.

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.

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Ray Roa

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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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