David Blake opens up about the Tangent Cafe closing down

David Blake, in his own words, tells all about the end of Jazz at the Tangent – with the restaurant now renamed to Daybreakers as of August 2, 2023 under new ownership. David and I talked at length and covered his view of the story thoroughly:

• What it was like to relaunch from the pandemic almost two years ago in late 2021, when David had already left for New York
• His reaction when the now-former owners told him that a sale was in the cards, and his first impressions of the new owners
• The people's reaction on the ground as the changes set in
• The jarring way that David found out the new owners were ending the jazz series
• Fallout, reflections, and ending with optimism

We started our interview with the 2021/22 reopening under the original ownership, because that picks up the story where our podcast episode left off. Below this line, David is in plain text, with my headings for context and spacing out the reading experience.

Reopening, from late 2021, while in New York