{"id":230853,"date":"2025-09-16T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:57:19","slug":"jazz-tx-owner-creates-jazzy-new-club-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230853\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz, TX owner creates jazzy new club\u2014in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine years ago, pianist and performer Doc Watkins<\/a> created Jazz, TX<\/a> in San Antonio. The music club was a basement-level venue, just around the corner from The Park at Pearl. <\/p>\n

Despite the club\u2019s jazzy focus, Watkins said music, food<\/a> and drinks all have to succeed for the venue to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s what he credits his success to:
\u201cObviously, it’s a music venue, but we take our food program and our bar program and our service, just as importantly as we take the music,\u201d Watkins said.
Perhaps because of all that, Jazz, TX has been quite successful. It’s so successful, that he\u2019s creating a new club\u2014but not in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

\"Doc<\/p>\n

Doc Watkins playing piano with his group<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s going to be called Doc\u2019s, and it’s going to be in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, in the former Tower Theater, which is a historic building built in 1936 \u2014originally\u2014 as a movie house,\u201d he said. \u201cBut in 1980 Ella Fitzgerald actually recorded a live album in that venue.\u201d<\/p>\n

That past as a theater means it\u2019s got a large marquee and a far larger floorplan than Jazz, TX does.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was originally designed as a theater in 1936, but it has been done and redone multiple times. And so at some point, a really large kitchen, probably big enough to cater 600 people, was built,\u201d Watkins said. \u201cAnd so we have a full kitchen. We built a mezzanine, so now there’s a second level.\u201d
He said construction is nearly complete and he expects to open in November. Doc\u2019s will be a jazz club too, but with a twist.\u00a0 He also expects to add blues, zydeco\u2014genres popular in Houston. <\/p>\n

\"Doc's<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s going to be diverse, but diverse in a different way than San Antonio. So the focus\u2014it is a jazz club\u2014it’s going to have a lot of jazz, but it’s going to have some blues. It’s going to have some R&B,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’re going to provide world-class music programming that reflects the musical cultural landscape of Houston in the best way that we know how, as jazz musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doc’s will open in Houston in November.<\/p>\n

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