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The latest casualty on the San Francisco jazz scene is Coda Jazz Supper Club in the Mission District, which closed its doors on January 1, 2011.

The jazz venue and restaurant celebrated its final concert on New Year's Eve with a triple bill of Bay Area musicians: RayBand (an all-star tribute band to the late Ray Charles), 8-Legged Monster, and the Mike Olmos Organ Trio.

According to published reports about the club's closure, the current economy has made keeping the club alive a tough task.

"Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the challenges of our economy proved too strong," owner Bruce Hanson told SFWeekly. "It breaks our hearts to close."

Meanwhile, Examiner.com blogger David Becker reports that "promoters are moving ahead with plans to convert the former Valencia Street digs of the New College into an outpost of Preservation Hall, the famed New Orleans jazz venue."

Preservation Hall West, says Becker, will include two restaurants and a jazz club.

Reviewing the club shortly after it opened in mid-2009, JazzWest blogger Masha Campagne wrote that Coda "perfectly re-captures the spirit of a hip restaurant/club where locals can catch a great jazz, have a delicious meal, or just get together with friends for cocktails."

The club was home base for trombonist, composer and bandleader Adam Theis and his musical cohorts in the Jazz Mafia (and all its various permutations).