Name Keith Crombie | Died 2012 | |
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Keith Crombie (c. 1939, Seaham – December 29, 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne) was an iconic music venue owner and promoter in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Crombie worked on the North East jazz scene since the 1960s, starting off at the Downbeat jazz club. In the early 1990s he started the Jazz Café on Pink Lane, a small music venue which he owned and operated until his death in 2012.
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Crombie was a familiar sight to students at Newcastle University and Northumbria University (most of who know him better as the Jazz man), where he would personally distribute leaflets advertising his venue. While the Jazz Café mostly booked local names and rarely featured any big names, it was often cited as a frequent stop for musicians with business elsewhere in the city. A documentary about Crombie, titled The Jazz Man started filming before his death.
Shortly after Crombie's death a group of enthusiasts and local people set up a co-operative to continue his work of promoting jazz. The Jazz Café itself was refurbished and opened again after having been closed for a period after Crombie's death, and is now operated by Newcastle arts centre.