The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29897   Message #2492424
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Cecchini
12-Nov-08 - 11:51 PM
Thread Name: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
Subject: RE: Barbarossa /Terry Rebenar
My Name is Jack Cecchini. I am a Jazz and Classical guitarist and guitar teacher. I used to hang in the Barba Rossa and perform there from time to time. I just want to mention that my friend Ed Herron owned the Barba Rossa and he gave Terry Rebenar ten percet of the club.
Ed Herron passed away about ten years ago. Terry Rebenar passed away about fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm not sure about his date of death. Terry took a few guitar lessons from me and had one of the most beautiful voices I ever heard. He always player twelve string guitar on stage but he loved the classic guitar which he studied with me. He died Of aids which he contracted from the gal he was living with.

   The Barbarossa was a wonderful place and brings back many wonderful memories. I miss all the divine crazies that hung out in the clubs in those days.

Jack Cecchini