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NOV 2017

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26 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.17 SPACES Jim Goodwin opened Another Place Sand- wich Shop more than 40 years ago, and when he died in 2015, his son, Brian Good- win, took over the business. Brian had been spending time in Brooklyn, hanging out in jazz clubs like Smalls and Village Vanguard. "I always noticed that jazz clubs in New York were, a lot of the time, basements with exposed brick. They looked a lot like the basement of the sandwich shop," he says. "I kind of joked around about opening a jazz club down there." He mentioned the idea to his friend Dennie Humphrey, who owned the Monkey Wrench before it closed. "It got more and more real and we were just like, 'Let's do it,'" Goodwin says. The basement dining room is now the jazz club Jimmy Can't Dance, the name a nod to Goodwin's late father. On Wednes- day through Saturday nights, live jazz drifts up the stairwell at the back of the small restaurant downtown on Seventh Street, between Main and Market. Downstairs, wallpaper features pink peonies. Soft, supple leather covers high benches. A thick velvet curtain hangs behind the band. Near the bar, a neon-blue "We're all animals" sign glows. "In New York it happens a lot — you walk through, like, a pawn shop and into a cool bar. But not really in Louisville that I know of," Goodwin says. Many of the performers study jazz at U of L. Others have been playing since the '70s, when Jimmy owned the downtown music venues Beggar's Banquet and Friend In Hand and was also hosting shows (everything from punk to reggae to rock) at Another Place Sandwich Shop when it was on Frankfort Avenue where the Irish Rover is now. During the Jimmy Can't Dance renovation, Brian Goodwin came across a cassette his father had made. "A lot of guys remem- bered it. They had played at Another Place Sandwich Shop in the late '80s and now are playing at Jimmy Can't Dance," he says. "Would I have been so involved in music if my dad wasn't? I don't know. I think that him being into music his whole life is defi- nitely the driver for all of this." — Michelle Eigenheer Photo by Chris Witzke

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