Twin Cities Music Highlights

Toast-and-Jam Session: 1950

In the September 16, 1950, St. Louis Park Echo, there is an ad for John K. Sherman’s “Toast-and-Jam Session – a New Saturday Breakfast Series” from 9 to 10 AM, Fountain Room, Fourth Floor, Maurice L. Rothschild Young-Quinlan Co., 9th and Nicollet Downtown.  It advertised “Celebrities!  Blues-Dixieland-Bebop! – Breakfast!  Hi-School Bigshots! – Surprises!  Sherman was the Music, Art, and Drama Critic for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.  Aha!  A precursor to the famous Dayton’s shows of the ’60s?

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