Downstairs at The Nazz
In the basement of Notre Dame’s LaFortune Student Center was a little room called The Nazz.
On weekend nights, students crowded in to hear other students play jazz, folk, soft rock and the songs of the era. There were open stages, packed performances, Christmas shows and musicians like Rich Prezioso and Rick Walters—some of whom would also find their way onto WSND-FM.
For one Notre Dame student, The Nazz was where he first remembers hearing “Amie” and “Desperado,” played not from a record, but by another student with a guitar.
Drawing on contemporary issues of The Observer and Scholastic—and…
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