By Ed Masley, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Twenty years ago, when the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild began presenting jazz in what Marty Ashby recalls with a smile as “a burnt-out industrial park,” he and Bill Strickland used to drive around town picking people up just to get them inside the legendary North Side venue that since has hosted such masters as Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson and Wynton Marsalis.

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