Wrapped in plexiglass, Seattle's Jazz Alley prepares to open in April

Live music has vanished in the pandemic. Night clubs are struggling. And Jazz Alley, the nationally known music dinner club in downtown Seattle has been closed for a year. The staff is eagerly waiting for the opportunity to re-open.

Dizzy Gillespie has graced the jazz alley stage along with Oscar Peterson and Betty Carter. And they expanded to other artists like Dr. John Kenny G and Tower of Power.

Ari Dimitriou, now a business student at Seattle University, was born into Seattle Jazz Alley.

"My father and my mother came together, and they opened a club in the University District in 1979," he said. The club opened a Pioneer Square branch before moving to its current location on Sixth Avenue downtown.

Dimitriou grew up at the club. He bussed tables when he was 14, listening to live music almost every night of his childhood.