On a chilly Thursday evening last November, a long line of well-dressed people stretched down a block of Broadway in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. A sense of anticipation was palpable as the crowd waited to be admitted into the city’s newest jazz club, Keys Jazz Bistro, on opening night.
The excitement grew inside the club as drinks and hors d’oeuvres were served, and several people within earshot could be heard expressing their happiness at being out to hear live music for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Then, when the evening’s talent—the local singer
