Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe

Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe Dirty Dog Jazz Café is a American bistro. Private dining room available for up to 25 people, with full meeting and conference capabilities.
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Detroit's Best Jazz Experience 🎶🎷 Join us for world-class​ performances and delicious cuisine: Lunch Tuesday - Friday, Brunch Saturday starting at 10 am, Dinner and Live Music Wednesday - Saturday. Live jazz — Mose Allison, Stanley Jordan, Freddy Cole, Thornetta Davis & Wendell Harrison have played here — Tuesday through Saturday in the well-appointed, intimate dining room. Must be 21 years or older to consume alcohol in the United States.

06/05/2026

returns to Dirty Dog June 18th - 20th, with 2 sets on June 18th.

$50 Cover Charge.

Reserve your tickets online at the link in our bio or call 313-882-JAZZ 📱

Join us THIS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY at the DIRTY DOG JAZZ CAFE for our continuing concert series "Echoes of the Falle...
06/03/2026

Join us THIS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY at the DIRTY DOG JAZZ CAFE for our continuing concert series "Echoes of the Fallen" in tribute to the spirit of trumpeter, composer, and band leader Karim Gideon.

Reserve your table here 👉 https://dirtydogjazz.com/reservations/

06/03/2026

Every Wednesday. No Cover. Open seating.

05/30/2026

All summer long!
$7.50 wine (Red or White of our daily selection.
$5 Draft Beers
$3.50 Bottled Beers
$9 select cocktails
$5 Sliders (Each)
$5 fries
$5 Caesar salad
$10 Chopped salad

05/29/2026

Cass Tech Alum Ralphe Alan Armstrong got an early start in the
music business. In 1973, Armstrong, a 17-year old east side of
Detroit kid just out of Cass Technical high school, tried out for and
landed a gig with John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra. The
other person who auditioned at the same time was Jaco Pastorius.
“Jaco had a different sound then, he had an old beat up fretted
Fender Precision, I got the job because I played fretless, remembers Ralphe.

Following his three-year Mahavishnu stint, Armstrong joined a
stellar fusion group led by violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, a former
Mahavishnu bandmate who had also appeared on Apocalypse and
Visions of the Emerald Beyond. Ralphe can be heard ripping it up
alongside guitarists Allan Holdsworth and Daryl Stuermer and
drummer Steve Smith on Ponty’s 1977 landmark Enigmatic Ocean
as well as the 1978 follow-up Live, which Ralphe calls the “best
example of my electric bass playing on record.”

In spite of being at the height of his career, Ralphe maintained a low
profile for most of the 1980’s thru the 2000’s to stay home and
raise his two sons and his daughter. “With all the traveling I did, my
children didn’t know me so I stayed home to raise my kids, says
Armstrong. “I think that was very important; if you have children,
they need to know who you are.”

These days, Ralphe is an Executive Board member and chair of the
trust fund with the Detroit Federation of Musicians, Local 5, tours
nationally and internationally, performs at various jazz venues,
including the annual Detroit Jazz Festival, teaches at Cass
Technical High School and University of Michigan, produces, writes
and conducts bass clinics.

Available now! See you soon!
05/15/2026

Available now! See you soon!

Address

97 Kercheval Avenue
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
48236

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11:30am - 10pm
Wednesday 11:30am - 10pm
Thursday 11:30am - 11pm
Friday 11:30am - 10:30pm
Saturday 5pm - 10:30pm

Telephone

+13138825299

Website

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