The father of Montreal disco

Alfie Wade of Sete, France, is the father of disco in Montreal. He was everywhere back in the late 1960s when nightclubs as we know them exploded into a huge deal here. Alfie rigged up all the Crescent Street clubs with the same powerful sound systems that he had seen in New York. He was very influential in promoting jazz music here and his million plus good friends include Oliver Jones. Around 1969, newspaper writers from various cities would descend on Montreal partytown and Wade would invariably become the focus of these articles, as he was the ultimate guide to the nightclubs. Wade moved to Harlem where he fought for the advancement of the living standards of black people, he was no fan of Al Sharpton. He has since taken his fine mind to Sete, France where he lives a fantastic life by the sea and promotes jazz music in his town. His wife Anne de Chabaneix is an accomplished painter as was her father. They dropped by my place a couple of years back and not only is she gracious and intelligent, but truly a bombshell. Here's a painting she did of him not long ago.