 The Ealing Jazz Club was opened at 42A The Broadway, Ealing, in the west of London, in January 1959.The manager of the Ealing Club was Teheran-born student Fery Asgari who ran the venue for fellow students of Ealing Technical College, now part of the University of West London.Asgari had been using Ealing Town Hall, then the upstairs ballroom of The Feathers, a pub opposite the Ealing Club venue prior to taking on the Jazz Club premises where he ran jazz nights on Thursdays and Fridays, and R&B on Saturdays.