
Jazz group
The Meridian Quartet
For nine years they were the house band of a supper club called the Meridian, playing under an owner — an old singer named June Okafor (no relation to the folk act) — who paid on time, fed them at the family meal, and told them a room is a promise you keep nightly. When the club closed for a condo tower, the four of them kept the name, kept the Tuesday set wherever a room would hold it, and kept the standard she set: elegance as loyalty, music played like the room still exists and somebody's grandmother is at the c
Singles & catalog titles

Down at the Meridian


