New Omaha Jazz Club "The Jewell" Installs Bag End

	Photo: HDR 2019 Dan SchwalmS

The Jewell is a posh night club in Omaha, Nebraska, which opened its doors in February 2019. Brian McKenna is the New York record executive who moved to Omaha to create The Jewell.

The Bag End sound system installed consists of two Neptune Series CDS-115 high output loudspeakers, three TA80 full range speakers, four D12E-DA low profile subwoofers, one Infra MXB system processor, and five TA1202-RF floor monitors.

Charlie Ames, The Jewell front of house engineer, says, "I've had a wonderful experience with the PA, monitors included. I have plenty of headroom for most of the bands I mix; the cabinets sound great with little corrective tuning. I've also been really impressed with the subs - it's really remarkable the impact and definition they produce, given their size."

The Jewell pays homage to local music impresario Jimmy Jewell Jr. and to local jazz history. The best of the best played in Omaha including; Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. These greats played at the Dreamland Ballroom, which was located in the Jewell building that Jimmy Jewell Jr.'s father built. The Jewell building itself is listed among the National Register of Historic Places because of those it hosted over the years and is a few blocks from the new club.