Downtown Durham's new jazz venue also serves up coffee and cocktails

Missy Lane's Assembly Room, a new jazz venue in downtown Durham, is now open and serving coffee during the day and drinks and live music at night.

Background: Missy Lane's is the brainchild of Cicely Mitchell, a longtime influence in the Triangle's music scene and cofounder of the Art of Cool Festival in Durham.

• The venue is now among the Triangle's few Black- or women-owned music venues.
• It provides a welcome refuge for jazz fans after Raleigh jazz bar C. Grace closed last year.