“The biggest jazz stars came to Maribor in the 1980s,” reminisces the drinker sitting beside me in KGB, a bar and cabaret venue in Maribor,Slovenia‘s second city. The legendary US bassist Reggie Workman married a woman from Maribor, she adds, “because of course you had the parties afterwards”.
It isn’t hard to imagine such glamour in this former wine cellar: it is cosy and wood-panelled, a candlelit space that hosts live performances from experimental theatre to classic blues (the joke with the name KGB is that the initials stand for “culture and music den” in Slovene).
