I'm assuming you read this, which ran in the NY Times three days ago.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/nyregion/paul-colby-owner-of-club-that-helped-the-rise-of-greenwich-village-dies-at-96.html?_r

You may be able to reach folks quoted in the obit.

*I intend no insult, but my college journalism students rarely read the newspaper, unless required to.