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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

A blues radio host got a call from his landlord-to-be and hatched a club in one meeting. The Rhythm Room at 1019 East Indian School Road in midtown Phoenix opened on 18 September 1991 with Big Pete Pearson - the city's king of the blues - on stage, conceived when property owner Lenny Frankel recruited harmonica player and KJZZ radio host Bob Corritore to book and shape a blues room in the former Purple Turtle bar. Corritore, a Chicago transplant who had played the building in its Purple Turtle ...