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The attention of some of the top stars in the food world. >> i applied the same rules with the drum sticks, and has been successful. >> firth has been running the company for 45 years, and you think he would be tempted to rest, but thats just not in the cards. >> i let go of nothing. if you have a dream or desire, go for it. go for the moon, and if you get halfway there, thats only halfway up, and thats the mode under which i operate. ♪ >> when her husband, max, died, lorraine gordon knew all ...

Barbara streisand? no. and she got up and sang, and she was very good. >> last year, she repaid the debt by performing again at the vanguard, something she talked about in a recently released dvd. >> after everything i have done and everywhere i have been, i am back to where i started. life is a circle, right? >> you are surrounded by the faces of jazz greats. the history is thick. you can almost breathe it in. >> in 1989, max gordon died, and lorraine gordon says she was completely not prepared...

hi, there, everyone. im j.j. ramberg. welcome to "your business" where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. today our show is dedicated to small business lessons we can learn from people in the music industry, including 60s icons "the grateful dead." the band may have called it quits but they are alive to brian hall michigan and david mereman scott. the rock and roll legends have a lot to teach us about marketing. ♪ >> brian haligan and david mereman scott are dead...

>> its been operating in this tiny basement since it was started by lorraines husband max gordon, 75 years ago. >> he opened this club in 1935. it was not a jazz club then. it was the same room but it did not jazz, it was poetry readings. >> i attribute the success to max gordon who ran this club for many, maesz many decades and had a great horse sense. >> this was maxs office. there is a picture of max sitting here in this spot. this is the same terrible ugly desk i dare not get rid of. >> my f...

♪ ♪ it cannot wait im yours >> hi there. im jj ramberg. welcome to "your business" where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. when her husband max, the owner of new yorks legendary village van guard died lorraine knew all about jazz but next to nothing about running the business her husband left behind. now, 20 years later, thanks to her, the club is still hopping. ♪ >> the village van guard is aly gaenldary jazz nightclub in new yorks greenwich village. >> wel...

To where i started. life is a circle. >> youre surrounded by the faces of jazz greats. the history is thick. you can almost breathe it in. >> in 1989, max gordon died and lorraine gordon says she was completely unprepared to take over. >> i really was not trained in any way. i wasnt encouraged to, you know, lorraine, would you like to take over. nothing. i closed it that night. i wrote a little sign, closed. opened it the next night. now i learned what to do or what not to do, and i learned on t...