I’ve just heard an interesting rumor–that Brown Sugar, the well-known Taipei jazz club, is planning to open a branch in Shanghai’s tourist center Xintiandi. The huge space recently vacated by former rock/pop live music venue The Ark seems to be the landing pad targeted for the club’s first Shanghai location. If it does open in that space, it will be quite near to Shanghai’s other Taiwanese-owned jazz club, CJW, which also originated in Taipei before opening 2 locations in Shanghai (one of which is closed now) and most recently one more in Beijing.
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Another Taipei jazz club to open a branch in Xintiandi?
Thursday, September 11th, 2008CJW Bund Center closed
Monday, August 11th, 2008I know this is already old news, but for those of you who didn’t know already, the second location of CJW in Shanghai just closed about a month ago. According to musicians who had been working there before the closure, the reason for closing was a sudden massive hike in rent by the landlord when the initial rent contract ended. Apparently it might have been a move to force the club out, which may mean the bund center has some intention of doing something else with the space. In any case, they also indicated that the club will reopen another location in Shanghai as soon as they can. The original CJW at Xintiandi remains open, unaffected by the other club’s closure; as does the newest sister–the location in Beijing.