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RED BANK: PARK IT HERE, JAZZ LOVERS
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John Gatta wields giant scissors as he dedicates the new park named for his late brother, Ralph ‘Johnny Jazz’ Gatta Jr. (seen below), as Councilwoman Linda Schwabenbauer applauds. (Photo byContinue reading "RED BANK: PARK IT HERE, JAZZ LOVERS"
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May 12th, 2015 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: PARK TO GET JOHNNY JAZZED UP
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Anyone who ever had the pleasure of getting an earful of bebop – and a history lesson in jazz – while picking up a pound of ground chuck at the now-goneContinue reading "RED BANK: PARK TO GET JOHNNY JAZZED UP"
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May 11th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: PARK TO HONOR JOHNNY JAZZ
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By JOHN T. WARD He presided over what had to qualify as one of the quirkiest neighborhood grocery stores in the history of retailing, let alone Red Bank. Now, fourContinue reading "RED BANK: PARK TO HONOR JOHNNY JAZZ"
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December 12th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BASIE (AND JOHNNY), 365
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“Pied Piper of Jazz” Keith Marks keynoted a new slate of free outdoor jazz concerts on August 22 — a Count Basie 365 Cultural Series that continues Friday evening withContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE (AND JOHNNY), 365"
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September 2nd, 2014 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: WOMEN AT (AND OUT OF) WORK
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Author Dr. Mary Gatta visits River Road Books on Thursday evening, for a discussion of the challenges faced by unemployed women in the current workforce system.    As a seniorContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: WOMEN AT (AND OUT OF) WORK"
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April 30th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: JAZZ MARKET SEEKS NEW SOLOIST
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Two years after the death of jazz-crazy butcher Ralph “Johnny Jazz” Gatta, his longtime butcher shop on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank has been gutted and renovated. Building owner DonnaContinue reading "RED BANK: JAZZ MARKET SEEKS NEW SOLOIST"
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April 11th, 2014 @ 7am
GETTING JAZZY FOR JOHNNY JAZZ
Red Bank’s jazz royalty gathered in an unassuming pocket park at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard Friday night as the Al Wright Unit, above, the Chuck Lambert BandContinue reading "GETTING JAZZY FOR JOHNNY JAZZ"
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August 27th, 2012 @ 7am
A CHANGE OF SEASON, A HAPPENING WEEKEND
Red Bank musical movers and shakers Chuck Lambert, Joe Muccioli and the Al Wright Unit’s Ruth Wright pay tribute to the late Ralph “Johnny Jazz” Gatta, in a special outdoorContinue reading "A CHANGE OF SEASON, A HAPPENING WEEKEND"
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August 23rd, 2012 @ 8am
BUT WILL THE SIGN BE HAND-SCRAWLED?
By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank officials are mulling a ceremonial renaming of a portion of Shrewsbury Avenue in honor of grocer Ralph ‘Johnny Jazz’ Gatta, who died last SaturdayContinue reading "BUT WILL THE SIGN BE HAND-SCRAWLED?"
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December 22nd, 2011 @ 12pm
A SWINGIN’ IDEA FOR DADDY-O’S DAY
Ralph “Johnny Jazz” Gatta (pictured at left with Gilda Rogers of Frank Talk) is the subject of a special salute, and the Gambone Project provides the grooves, as the secondContinue reading "A SWINGIN’ IDEA FOR DADDY-O’S DAY"
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June 18th, 2010 @ 5am
DEATH RUMORS: WAY-OUTSVILLE, MAN
Ralph ‘Johnny Jazz’ Gatta at Riverview Medical Center on April 27. (Click to enlarge) Johnny Jazz is not dead. Repeat: JOHNNY JAZZ IS NOT DEAD. In fact, for a guyContinue reading "DEATH RUMORS: WAY-OUTSVILLE, MAN"
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May 8th, 2010 @ 11am
Ralph Gatta at Riverview Medical Center yesterday, and a note to his customers, below. Ralph Gatta, a butcher and grocer known as ‘Johnny Jazz’ to generations of Red Bank’s WestContinue reading "‘JOHNNY JAZZ’ ENDS FIVE-DECADE SOLO"
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April 28th, 2010 @ 9am
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APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.