Iowa Public Television

Maintenance Shop Series'

Affectionately called the "M-Shop," The Maintenance Shop is an intimate, 150-seat music club located in the Student Union at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Through university grants and ticket sales, the M-Shop has been able to attract a diverse group of nationally recognized artists in a plethora of genres over the past quarter of a century.

Iowa Public Television combined resources and personnel with the M-Shop to videotape three separate music series from the late 1970's through the mid-1980's, including 19 one-hour jazz programs. These programs were also broadcast nationally on PBS and many have been broadcast internationally, including western Europe, northern Africa and Japan,

Was a one-hour program taped at the University of Northern Iowa, featuring baritone jazz saxophonist, Nick Brignola, in concert with the UNI jazz band.